Description | English: Audience entering a moving-picture theater, from a 1911 magazine |
Date | 1911 |
Source | The Motion Picture Story Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturesto01moti/page/n387/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Category Archives: Movies
The Censor Bird, by Rollin Kirby
Description | English: “The Censor Bird,” by Rollin Kirby, from a 1926 movie magazine |
Date | 1926 |
Source | Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/photoplay3031movi/page/n49/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Rollin Kirby |
Excerpt from the article this cartoon accompanied: This is the Censor Bird, skunkus avis, a native of the United States. It is a creature of devastating habits and flourishes in Kansas and Pennsylvania. Just now it is trying to make its nest in Washington. The Censor Bird is a destructive vulture that lays waste the land it inhabits. Its ways are most peculiar. The sound of laughter or merriment throws it into an unreasonable rage. The mention of sex sends it shrieking through the land. Although near-sighted, it is able to see filth that is invisible to the ordinary human eye.
The House of a Thousand Candles
Description | English: Image from an advertisement for the silent mystery The House of a Thousand Candles (1915), with the text removed |
Date | 1915 |
Source | Advertisement in Moving Picture World (https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor25newy/page/n1567/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
The original text is below. This version is reconstructed in Inkscape from an imperfectly scanned original.
WHIZ-Z-Z-Z-!
Description | English: Advertisement for serial The Diamond from the Sky from a film trade magazine |
Date | 1915 |
Source | Moving Picture World (https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor25newy/page/1111/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
A Victim of the Mormons
Description | English: Promotional still from A Victim of the Mormons |
Date | 1911 |
Source | Moving Picture World (https://archive.org/details/moviwor10chal/page/n1087/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | August Blom |
The Romantic History of the Motion Picture, Part 2
Description | English: Illustrations from a 1922 article on the history of motion pictures |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n545/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
The Romantic History of the Motion Picture, Part 1
Description | English: Illustrations from a 1922 article on “The Romantic History of the Motion Picture” |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n407/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
The First Movie Projector
Description | English: “The Latham Brothers first used the enlarged kinetoscope to throw pictures on a screen. This has caused controversy to this day, Edison declaring the apparatus was essentially his invention” |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n545/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Where Are the Movies Leading Us?
Description | English: “Where Are the Movies Leading Us?” Cartoon showing people being pulled along by anthropomorphic cameras |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Picture-Play Magazine (https://archive.org/details/Picture-playMagazineApril1922/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
French Caricature of Charlie Chaplin
Description | English: Caricature of Charlie Chaplin from a French movie magazine, 1922 |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Cinéa (https://archive.org/details/cina22pari/page/n745/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |