Norman Lear RIP -- December 6, 2023

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Norman Lear has died at the age of 101. My condolences to his family. I watched many of his sitcoms during the 1970s. 

The Public Welcomes Bill Hart Back! -- December 6, 2023

Motion Picture News, 01-December-1923

William S Hart's career had been derailed when he was accused of fathering a woman's five-year-old child. Even though he wound up paying child support, he was allowed to return to the screen. Wild Bill Hickock was a success.

Motion Picture News, 08-December-1923

DW Griffith's Masterfilm -- December 5, 2023

Motion Picture News, 29-December-1923

I like the understated design of this ad for DW Griffith's The White Rose. I don't think I have seen the word "Masterfilm" in any other place.

Motion Picture News, 22-December-1923

Lionel Barrymore appeared in several Biograph films directed by DW Griffith, including "The New York Hat" with Mary Pickford. Griffith hired Barrymore to play the loyalist bad guy, Captain Walter Butler, in Griffith's story of the American Revolution, America.  

Harold Lloyd -- Return Engagement -- December 4, 2023

Moscow, Idaho Daily Star-Mirror, 01-December-1923

Harold Lloyd's first five reel feature, Grandma's Boy, made a return engagement at the Idaho Theater in Moscow. I don't remember seeing this image before. 

Newark Leader, 07-December-1923

Why Worry?, despite some racist elements, is one of Harold Lloyd's funniest films. I like how he stands astride the smiling earth and tickles it. 

Emmett Index, 01-December-1923

Vashon Island News-Record, 28-December-1923

Thomas H Ince's Most Masterly Presentation of Anna Christie -- December 3, 2023

Motion Picture News, 15-December-1923

Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1922. The next year, Thomas H Ince produced the first film adaption, which starred Blanche Sweet.

Motion Picture News, 15-December-1923

The playwright approved of the adaption. This item mentioned that censors in Ohio and Pennsylvania cut the heck out of the film. 

Motion Picture News, 08-December-1923

Lubin's New Improved Patent Film -- December 2, 2023

New York Clipper, 28-March-1903

The Lubin Manufacturing Company was a pioneering film production company founded in 1902 in Philadelphia by Siegmund Lubin. Lubin later produced movies in Jacksonville, Florida and Los Angeles, California.

The Oberammergau Passion Play is performed in the Bavarian village every ten years. The Passion Play became a hot topic and several producers made adaptions. Lubin's was made in 1900.

In 1899, Jim Jeffries defeated Bob Fitzsimmons to take his heavyweight title. On 25-July-1902, they fought a rematch in San Francisco. Fitzsimmons broke Jeffries' nose, but Jeffries knocked him cold in the 8th.

San Francisco Examiner, 26-July-1922

Larry Semon at Truart -- December 1, 2023

Motion Picture News, 15-December-1923

Larry Semon had just reached the end of his long association with the Vitagraph. After a vacation in New York, he went west to Truart, his new studio to begin his first feature film. The first five-reel production, The Girl in the Limousine, based on a popular play, was not released until June 1924.