Vitagraph releases The Deerslayer two part feature at once
Vitagraph introduces The Deerslayer a two part film from The Leatherstocking Tales by J Fenimore Cooper with a focus on frontier struggles against Native Americans. The article also notes Vitagraph securing lions for animal pictures and highlights William Humphrey as Napoleon in several productions and King Baggott in a Screen Club auction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vitagraph Company
J. Fenimore Cooper
Washington Irving
William Humphrey
Vitagraph Studios
Napoleon
Mrs. Langtry
Vitagraph
King Baggott
Terrace Garden
New York
Baggott
Flying for motion pictures and silent sky stunts
Aviation feats for film draw less fanfare yet rival public shows in daring. Aéroplatites and balloons perform for the motion picture camera, unseen by cheering crowds, illustrating dangers and artistry behind the lens.
Aerial Film Makers and Stars Dominate Imp Productions
Bigelow Campbell and Rayden with King Baggot in Imp pictures. Jack Carrigan now at Victor Company under James Kirkwood. Pearl White stars in Girls Will Be Boys, a Crystal comedy. George Gebhardt directs Pathe and Universal style comedies. Jane Gail appears with King Baggot in Pathe Imp productions. The piece highlights airmen and photographers joining aviation film projects, noting Rosanna Forbes and Rodman Law in a dramatic air rescue sequence, Coffyn’s Brooklyn bridge flights, and advances in aerial photography including telephoto lenses and camera stabilization. It praises aerial film use for railroads, the army, and topographical surveys with Israel Ludlow and Robert L. Baird innovations.
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Harry Bingham. Brown
A. Leo Stevens
George W. Beatty
Antony Jannus
Phillips Wards Ge
Frank T. Coffyn
Robert G. Fowler
H. H. Arnold
F. M. Kennedy
Rodman Law
Jimmy Hare
Collier's Weekly
Adrienne Duff
American Press Association
Edward Shaw
Tracy A. Tisdell
Rosanna Forbes
Miss Forbes
New York Bay
Law
Coffyn
Brooklyn Bridge
Pal
Leo Stevens
Tracy A. Tisdel
Bronx
Manhattan
Hudson
Phillips Ward Page
Brookline
Mass
North Atlantic
Beverley
Shaw
Page
Hemment
Africa
Paul Rainey
Aviation Film Company
Israel Ludlow
Robert L. Baird
The Whole Truth and Shark God Screenings Highlight Comedy
A clever Imp comedy titled The Whole Truth centers on a husband whose tall tale explains a pay shortage and escapes punishment. The Shark God is promised soon by Champion company after recent Hawaiian Island performances. Powers comedy To the Brave Belong the Fair promises barrel fun with new humorous adventures. Three boys chase the same girl, creating humorous complications.
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Hawaiian Islands
Shark God
Champion Company
New Powers
Raymond in Essanay Photoplay Thrills In Magic Wonders
The article touts Raymond the grand mysteryman on an Essanay photoplay performing before a world audience. It notes his royal audiences across Europe and Asia, decorations, and a sequence featuring his throne of mystery with disappearances, card tricks, a fairy cage, and a trunk illusion. Release date to be announced.
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Raymond
Essanay
King
England
Edward the Seventh
George V
Kaiser Wilhelm
Czar
Nicholas
Leopold
Emperor Franz Joseph
Emmanuel
Wilhelmina
Manuel
Alfonso
Mikado
Japan
Wamba a Child of the Jungle returns as Selig thriller
On May 28 the Selig Polyscope Company releases another jungle life picture titled Wamba a Child of the Jungle. Filmed at the Selig Wild Animal Farm in Los Angeles the two reel production features Baby Lillian Wade in daring stunts including a plunge into deep water to escape a lion and a crawl into a hollow tree to dodge pursuing horses. Thomas Santschi Bessie Eyton Baby Lillian Wade and Frank Clark star.
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Selig Polyscope Company
Lillian Wade
Thomas Santschi
Bessie Eyton
Frank Clark
Carlyle Blackwell Key to Kalem Glendale Studio Talent
Carlyle Blackwell joined Kalem's Glendale California company after stage work and prior film experience. He is praised for hero roles and nerve, notably in The Spanish Revolt of 1836 where a leg injury during a charge did not stop him. In free moments he studies or drives a fast motorcycle, earning the nickname Speed King.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlyle Blackwell
Blackwell
Kalem Company
Glendale
Presidio
Voice and Motion The Talking Picture in the Silent Era
The industry heads ask how talking pictures will affect the silent drama. Edison’s Kinetophone and Hepworth’s Viva-Phone promise synchronized speech, with debates over their theater adoption and potential to redefine film entertainment.
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Edison
Cecil M. Hepworth
Hepworth Manufacturing Company
London
Great Britain
Albert Blinkhorn
Loneacre
New York
Between Life and Death at Johns Hopkins
Baltimore reports that Johns Hopkins Medical School experiments suggest an intermediate stage between life and death. Studies show viability can be suspended by freezing and revived weeks later in small animals, with no food intake or metabolic output during suspended animation. Researchers caution no human applicability implied.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Hopkins
Captain Scott
South Pole
Borrowed Book Sparks Libel Suit in Bamberg Courts
A professor sued over a libel after a friend failed to return Heine poems. Despite eight warnings, the book remained outstanding and, to complain, the professor pasted a newspaper clipping claiming Germans buy books yet never return them. The tale includes a borrower passing the volume to a woman friend who lent it onward.
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Bamberg
Heine
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Keith
Animal Pictures
Harold Shaw
Imp Company
Father Love
Mr. Shaw
Jane Gail
Syndicate Publishing Co
Lock Hall of Fame
Anna Quirentin Nilsson
Kalem
Mabel Normand
Keystone
Margarita Fischer
Universal
Miss Fischer
Canada
Middle West
Pacific Northwest
Keystone Company
Biograph
Miss Nilsson
Kalem Players
Mariestadt
Sweden
Stal
Stockholm
Motion
Bigelow, Campbell and
Rayden
King Baggot
Imp Productions
Jack Carrigan
Selig Studio
Chicago
Victor Company
James Kirkwood
Pearl White
George Gebhardt
Pathet Company
Universal Forces
Imp
Pathe
Lochinvar
Red Cross
California
Alice Joyce
Carlyle Blackweld
Hiawatha
Wiggam No. 2
Viva- Coon. Sales CO
West 40Th St
Reliance
College Inn
New York City
Joe Kane
Grand Opera House
Selig
Vitagraph Comedy
Longfellow
the Princess Theater
the University
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