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THE BATTLE AT ELDERBUSH GULCH directed by D. W. Griffith
Starring Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Lionel Barrymore and Harry Carey Sr. Griffith made this film towards the end of his association with Biograph. Their inflexibility on expanded lengths beyond one and two reels hindered Griffith's visionary approach to the cinema. This was Griffith's try at a western and in its two reels he came out with a build-up of suspense and tension perhaps not rivaled in a film of this type until John Ford's "Stagecoach" some twenty years later.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 400-foot release by Blackhawk with historical introduction / L. N. print ....$20.

GREAT MOMENTS FROM "BIRTH OF A NATION" (1915)
The title basically says it all. It's a highlight edition of the blockbuster feature. D. W. Griffith had to do something big and controversial in order to make the feature-length movie he had spent years striving towards a success. He chose the inflammatory novel "The Clansman" about post Civil War racial tensions and turned it into the biggest commercial success of it's day while stirring anger and debate about the heroic portrayal of the infamous Ku Klux Klan. Even today it is difficult to separate the powerful story, the technical achievements from the dramatic content and the emotions it stirs in audiences of all races.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 1-reel 200-foot edition by Blackhawk Films ...............$10.

BLACKHAWK FILM SAMPLER "Preview 8"
Back in the early 70's Blackhawk mailed out these sampler reels to prospective collectors as a way of enticing new film collectors. They selected  scenes from EASY STREET with Charlie Chaplin, ORPHANS OF THE STORM with Lillian Gish, HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME with Lon Chaney, Charles Lindbergh's historic 1927 flight, a clip from THE PERILS OF PAULINE from 1914, the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1926 , D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE,  John Bunny and Flora Finch in a scene from one of their Vitagraph comedies, 1890's railroads, BATTLE AT ELDERBUSH GULCH, 1911 The first  Indianapolis 500 race, Keystone Kops in a scene from WIFE AND AUTO TROUBLE, 1905 autos, AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY with Douglas Fairbanks, 1902 railroads, BROKEN BLOSSOMS with Lillian Gish, DOUBLE WHOOPEE with Laurel & Hardy and Jean Harlow, and a clip of Mary Pickford. A nice overview of Blackhawk Films claim of what was once billed as "the world's largest selection of things to show".
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot reel edition from Blackhawk Films / Ex - L.N. shape.........$5.

THE BLACK PIRATE starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
This is the Paul Killiam adaptation of the original feature produced in 1926 during an age when swashbucklers were the rage with the likes of John Barrymore in "Don Juan", Valentino in "Son of the Shiek", Ronald Coleman in "Beau Geste" and Ramon Navarro in "Ben Hur".
16mm / b & w / Sound with music & narration / "Silents Please" edition from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape.............$80.

THE BLACK PIRATE starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
This is the Paul Killiam adaptation of the original feature produced in 1926 during an age when swashbucklers were the rage with the likes of John Barrymore in "Don Juan", Valentino in "Son of the Shiek", Ronald Coleman in "Beau Geste" and Ramon Navarro in "Ben Hur".
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / "Silents Please" edition from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape.........$20.

THE BLOCK SIGNAL (1926)
with Ralph Lewis, Jean Arthur and Hugh Allen
The story of a railroad engineer nearing retirement, his involvement in a wreck and consignment to a spot of crossing flagman. And of his daughter with whom an ambitious young fireman and a highway engineer are both in love. Of course, for all railroad buffs, the story is only incidental because of the extensive amount of Santa Fe motive power of trains of the 20's that are shown!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete feature by Blackhawk Films / 800-feet on 4 reels...............$35.

BRONCHO BILLY AND THE GREASER  (1914)
starring G.M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson
with Margueritte Clayton and Lee Willard
After stopping a half-breed from bothering Marguerite, Billy comes upon an exhausted old derelict by the roadside. While attending the old man in his cabin,  Billy is trapped by the greaser and almost becomes a victim of vengeance.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete film by Blackhawk Films / 200-feet ...............$10.

BRONCH BILLY'S SENTENCE (Essanay, 1915)
featuring G. M. Anderson, Virginia Ames, Ernest Van Pelt, Carl Stockdale, Evelyn Selbie, True Boardman
A fugitive from justice, Billy seeks refuge at Virginia's ranch and is wounded in the attempt. Escaping to the home of a minister, he is nursed back to health and decides to reform in a surprise ending.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete film by Blackhawk Films / 200-feet ..............$10.

C - D

THE CAKE EATER starring Will Rogers (1924)
Hal Roach produced a series of comedies starring the legendary Will Rogers around 1923. They were tailored to his rural, rustic, down home style and showed off his versatility as well. Joining Will in this comedy are Marie Mosquini, Billy Engle, Grace Woods, Patsy O'Byrne and Al Forbes. It was directed by Jay A. Howe and written by Will Rogers.
Regular 8mm / b &  w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape / .......................$15.

A CERTAIN NOBLEMAN - A Cathedral Films presentation
Chapter IV  46 to 54th verses. Two thousand years ago in Capernaum, near the sea of Galilee, there lived a certain nobleman whose broad fields and fruitful vineyards bore witness to his wealth. His slaves and workers respected him for he was a just and powerful master. Though Roman by birth, he loved the soil of his adopted land. This is his story of him, his family.  A rebellious slave makes trouble in the fields by repeating what he heard in Capernaum about the time when the master would be servant and the poor would inherit the earth. Also about a god more powerful than any known. The slave was punished. Then one day illness befell the nobleman's son. Praying to his false gods brings no help. The nobleman goes to Jesus who heals the boy and converts the nobleman to the faith of Christianity.
Regular 8mm / b &  w / silent adaptation  / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape / approx 350' ....................$12.


CLIFF-HANGING MOMENTS FROM THE SERIALS - "Steel Trail" (1923) starring William Duncan and Edith Johnson in a Universal serial filled with trains, planes and horses!  "Captain Kidd" (1922) starred Eddie Polo in a fifteen chapter serial  produced by Star Serial Corporation where Eddie plays the heir of a wealthy family who had been shanghaied aboard the the, the Albatross. In an action-packed sequence from chapter two, Eddie and the crew of the Albatross wage a life or death battle with the notorious pirate, Captain Kidd, and his blood-thirsty cutthroats. In "A WOMAN IN GREY" (1920), Arline Pretty spent much of her time as a serial star hanging over precipices, lashed to posts and steel girders, dangling on ropes out of airplanes or from buildings, and in innumerable other death's door predicaments. This excerpt from "Burning Strands" is a typical example.
Super 8mm /  b & w / silent / 1-reel release from Blackhawk Films (approx 200-feet) / Ex-LN shape.......................$8

CLIFF-HANGING MOMENTS FROM THE SERIALS - "Steel Trail" (1923) starring William Duncan and Edith Johnson in a Universal serial filled with trains, planes and horses!  "Captain Kidd" (1922) starred Eddie Polo in a fifteen chapter serial  produced by Star Serial Corporation where Eddie plays the heir of a wealthy family who had been shanghaied aboard the the, the Albatross. In an action-packed sequence from chapter two, Eddie and the crew of the Albatross wage a life or death battle with the notorious pirate, Captain Kidd, and his blood-thirsty cutthroats. In "A WOMAN IN GREY" (1920), Arline Pretty spent much of her time as a serial star hanging over precipices, lashed to posts and steel girders, dangling on ropes out of airplanes or from buildings, and in innumerable other death's door predicaments. This excerpt from "Burning Strands" is a typical example.
Regular 8mm /  b & w / silent / 1-reel release from Blackhawk Films (approx 200-feet) / Ex-LN shape.......................$8.

CONEY ISLAND starring Fatty Arbuckle & Buster Keaton
This lively slapstick 2-reeler was made in 1917 on location at Coney Island, New York. While many of the rides and attractions seen in this near-century-old film has disappeared, the sense of abandonment and zaniness are present whatever generation is present. Buster plays a bodyguard who gets tangled up with Fatty and his girl and after many adventures throughout Luna Park, they wind up in jail!
Regular 8mm / b&w / complete 2-reel version silent edition / L.N. shape..................$15.

A CORNER IN WHEAT directed by D. W. Griffith
starring Linda Arvidson, James Kirkwood, Christie Miller, Gladys Egan, Frank Powell.
This film by D. W. Griffith  is an outspoken film years ahead of it's time showing the rise and fall of a callous financial manipulator. Made by Griffith in 1909, it was an amazingly advanced film for that primitive era of film making and marked an important milestone in Griffith's career. It also launched the careers of more stars and directors than any single film up to that point. Frank Powell, who plays the stockbroker, later became a director of note and the man who made a star of Theda Bara. Heading the stockbrokers corps is Henry B. Walthall. Also in the cast are Mack Sennett, Bobby Harron and Arthur Johnson.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reel release by Blackhawk Films (approx 250') with historical introduction / L.N. shape........Sold, pending payment

THE COVERED WAGON (1925) starring Alan Hale, Sr.
directed by James Cruse
From Kodascope libraries comes this digest of the Western epic feature from Paramount Pictures. This is a Niles print.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / approximately 600 feet on 2 reels no opening titles.......................$15.

THE DISCIPLE (1915) starring Wiliaim S. Hart
with Dorothy Dalton and Robert McKim
Here's one of the off-beat roles that was somehow typical of William S. Hart - the sky pilot whose wife is lured away from her rather drab existence by the dashing and debonair operator of the town's saloon. However, there is nothing tame about the way Hart handles it. "The Disciple" was the first William S. Hart Production made by Thomas H. Ince to be released as a Triangle Play in November 1915.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / approximately 1,000 feet on 5 reels.......................$40.

E - F





EXPLOITS OF ELAINE " THE HIDDEN VOICE"
Pearl White (of Perils of Pauline fame) stars as Elaine Dodge  along with Arnold Daly as Craig Kennedy and Creighton Hale as Jameson.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films with historical introduction......./ mint print / ........$15.

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES (1912)
Directed by D. W. Griffith
featuring Mary Pickford with Claire McDowell, Dorothy Bernard, Charles West
Biograph never identified their actors and actresses so the public started to create names for their favorite players. In Mary Pickford's case, "The Biograph Girl" was the most common among others used. Griffith considered "The Female of the Species" among one of his best early films. Billed by Biograph as a "psychological drama", it must have been beyond the understanding of many of those who saw it at the time. Yet, it was typical Griffith who was such a pioneer and innovator in striving for the new and the different.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 1-reeler from Blackhawk Films with historical introduction......./good conditioned print / ........$15.

A FOILED ELOPEMENT-
Thanhouser serial chapter from Zudora  
Regular 8mm silent James Cruze(1-r silent)......LN...$10.

THE FOUR GUN BANDIT (Universal, 1919) starring Pete Morrison
Pete Morrison came to the movies in 1908. By the late teens he was being featured and starred in a long line of two-reel westerns, serials and features for Universal. "The Four Gun Bandit" is an altogether enjoyable example of a two-reel western of the period immediately  after World War 1. Aimed at the remaining nickelodeons and for the Western houses, it has all the entertainment elements then considered necessary for that type of theater.
16mm  / b & w / silent / complete 2-reels (approx. 800-feet) release by Blackhawk Films /.................Sold pending payment




G

THE GANGSTER AND THE GIRL
This Kay Bee Productions film was made around 1915. It stars Johnny Kay and Alma Rubens. Detective Stone, in order to Secure evidence against a gang of thieves, determines to try and join them by a ruse. He poses as a thug and asks the gang to hide him from the "bulls" who are after him. A week later, having allayed the suspicions of the gangsters, detective Stone is taken into the gang. Unsuspicious of Stone's real identity, Molly tells him the reason for her presence in the dive. A month later, Molly who is secretly in love with Stone, discovers his true identity. She is torn between whether to tell and send him to his death or refrain and see the
gang arrested. Meanwhile. a "wharf rat" who is sore at the gang betrays them to the police. An hour later a police raid ensues. Lacking complete evidence to convict Tracy and the rest of the gang, Stone accompanies the crooks who escaped the raid to a new rendezvous. Jim accuses Molly of betraying them to the police. A fight ensues and the gang leader is shot. Molly and the detective resume their relationship.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-feet /climatic reel two is all that was released by Film Classic Exchange / Ex shape / good print..........$10.

THE GHOST OF THE CANYON - (A Railroading Serial Adventure)
starring Helen Gibson
Serials at this time were more a series as each "chapter" was a self contained story with a resolution. The cliff-hanging would come later. But this early 1920  episode not only features an energetic locomotive train chase, but one of the all-time movie cliche's  when Helen Gibson is tied to the railroad track by the villains ! And it's played straight! For railroad buffs, this episode was filmed on the old Los Angeles and Salt Lake route at or near the stations of Bell and Vernon in what was then suburban Los Angeles.
Super 8mmt / b & w / silent / complete 400-foot release from Blackhawk with historical introduction /Ex shape.....$15.

GLASS MOVIE SLIDE SHOW - "GREAT STARS, GREAT FILMS"
Blackhawk Films released, on beautiful color Kodachrome movie stock, this coming attractions hand-painted glass slide show. Sliding from  left to right like the old fashioned projectors did are the following stars and movies; John Barrymore in "Raffles", Mary Miles Minter "Anne of Geen Gables", Nazimova in "Camille", Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", "Down to the Sea in Ships", Mae Murray in "Fascination", Henry B. Walthall in "Flower of the North", Irene Castle in "French Heels", "Girl of the Golden West",  Harry Houdini in "Hal Dane of the Secret Service", Will Rogers in "Honest Hutch", Charlie Chaplin in "The Kid", George Arliss "The Man Who Played God", Mabel Normand in "Mickey", "Nanook of the North", Pola Negri in "Passion", Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy", Mabel Norman in "Peck's Bad Girl", Buster Keaton in "The Playhouse", Mary Pickford in "Pollyanna", Constance Talmadge in "The Primitive Lover", "The Prisoner of Zenda", "The Queen of Sheeba", Richard Barthlemess in "The Seventh Day", Goldwyn's "The Spoilers", Buster Keaton in "The Three Ages", Nazimova in "Toys of Fate", Alice Terry in "Where the Pavement Ends", Edna Purviance in "A Woman of Paris", "The Zeppelin's Last Raid".
Regular 8mm / Color / silent / release by Blackhawk Films.......L.N. shape......................Sold, pending payment.

GLASS MOVIE SLIDE SHOW - "THE WESTERNS"
Blackhawk Films released, on beautiful color Kodachrome movie stock, this coming attractions hand-painted glass slide show. Sliding from  left to right like the old fashioned projectors did are the following stars and movies; Harry Carey in "The Kick Back", "The Pretendeder", William Duncan and Edith Johnson in "Where Men Are Men", William Farnum in "The Sheriff of Sun-Dog", Dustin Farnum in "The Grail", Franklin Farnum in "Texas", Zane Grey's "The Rainbow Trail", Hoot Gibson in "The Fire Eater", Hoot Gibson in "The Thrill Chaser", Neal Hart in "Table Top Ranch", "William S. Hart in "The Narrow Trail", Jack Hoxie in "The Crow's Nest", Jack Hoxie in "The Sheriff of Hope Eternal", Buck Jones in "To A Finish", Charles Jones in "Boss of Camp 4", J.P. McGowan in "The Ruse of the Rattler", Senior Daredevil, Tom Mix in "The Lone Star Ranger", Tom Mix in "The Night Horsemen", Pete Morrison in "Making Good", Jane Novak in "The Snowshoe Trail", Wiliam Russell in "Singing River", Thomas Santschi in "The Desert Wolf", Fred Thompson and his wonder horse Silver King in "The Two Gun Man", Jack London's "The Call of the Wild", James Oliver Curwood in "Courage of Marge O'Doone", "The Winning of the West", "The Mysterious Rider", Zane Grey's "The Man of the Forest", Zane Grey's "The U.P. Trail".
Regular 8mm / Color / silent / release by Blackhawk Films.......L.N. shape.......................15.

H - I - J

HELL'S HINGES  starring William S. Hart
Produced by Thomas H. Ince and Directed by William S. Hart. Story by C. Gardner Sullivan Photographed by Joseph August. Ince in addition to his producing was also one of the great film editors and originator of modern film production. Ince had a sturdier sense of realism than most directors of the day, and his Bill Hart films line up incredibly well with the best of subsequent Westerns. Hart's riding and his manner of playing the "good-bad man" made him popular and wealthy. Originally released in 1916, this is Blackhawk Films' release of the original feature.
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films  (approx 400-feet total) / Ex shape......................$15.

THE HEART OF TEXAS RYAN starring Tom Mix
Directed by E. A. Martin
One of the few extant films of Tom Mix from his Selig Polyscope Company era. In this Western, Mix plays a cowpuncher who fall for old man Ryan's daughter, played by Bessie Eyeton, who has returned home from the East. While at first thought little of, Mix eventually proves his metal by capturing a m,ember of a notorious gang of rustlers. He is later kidnapped by the gang and held hostage with Miss Ryan having to come up with $2,000. Character actor William Ryno, by then a grizzled veteran of the movies, plays a character named "Antonio Moreno" which is an obvious inside joke since Moreno was a matinee idol at Vitagraph during this period!
with Bessie Eyeton, George Fawcet, Frank Campeau and Tony
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / feature-length film released by Moviedrome / approx 800' on 4 reels....L.N. shape.............$30.

HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS starring Douglas Fairbanks
This film is typical of Fairbanks in the years before the costume pictures. It is rated as being the picture that established Fairbanks in the movies. Virtually non-stop action. Publicity at any price has become the predominant passion of the American people (yes, even back then!). A shining disciple of this modern art of "three-sheeting" is Proteus Prindle, producer of Prindle's 27 Vegetarian Varieties. This was Doug's third film in a long and successful career.
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / complete feature from Blackhawk Films / LN shape.........$25.

HOW WEARY GOES WOOING starring Tom Mix
This is an Exclusive Features home movie release of the Tom Mix western. Billed as "America's Champion Cowboy", , Tom Mix certainly lived up to the title according to his biographers. Mix had pursued several careers before coming to the movies in 1911 each with enough danger and excitement to last the average man a lifetime. He was a Texas Ranger, U.S. Marshall, soldier of fortune, rodeo performer to name a few.  Mix was a born trouper and appreciated the value of showmanship. Mix made a large number of films ranging from humorous one-reel shorts to features which he wrote and directed himself.
Regular 8mm / b&w / complete 1-reel edition / 200-foot-reel / LN shape ...................$8.

HUSTLIN' HANK starring Will Rogers (1923)
Will Rogers stars in this Hal Roach comedy. Cast in a rural setting, Rogers combines his comic pantomime skills with his likable personality. Much of the humor of Will Rogers came from his comments (via inter-titles ) on the human situation. It is directed by Perc Pembroke and features Marie Mosquini, Billy Engle, Noah Young, Eddie Baker and Vera White.
Regular 8mm / b & w / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk / L.N. shape.........................$18.

IN THE DAYS OF THE THUNDERING HERD starring Tom Mix
After making short subjects, Tom Mix starred in his first feature western adventure, "In The Days of the Thundering Herd". With Tom in this production is Bessie Eyton, who was a prominent player with Selig at the time. This 3-reel featurette was written by Gilson Willets and directed by Colin Campbell. In the days of 1849 the pony express riders, who were the sole means of communication, were chosen for their dauntless courage and ingenuity in surmounting the countless dangerous obstacles throughout the wilderness they traveled.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 3-reel edition (approx 700-feet) from Blackhawk Films...........Ex-LN shape .......$25.

IN THE SWITCH TOWER starring Walter Edwards and Frank Borzage
By 1915, Thomas H. Ince had earned a distinctive reputation as a producer of intensely dramatic films. Ince, who came to the public's attention with a long series of Civil War and Western films in 1912-13, had expanded the scope of his subject material to include the realism of contemporary drama. Unlike the work of D. W. Griffith which leaned toward a mawkish sentimentality wrapped in excessive melodrama, Ince's films were crisp, tightly structured stories which walked the fine line between drama and melodrama with a finesse not yet equaled on the screen. While he drew on everyday life for his plots, the unpleasant or unhappy ending was not all uncommon and  of the early producers, Ince exhibited the most sophisticated understanding of his audience- even a well-worn story like "In the Switch Tower" became a suspense-filled production for moviegoers of 1915.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel release by Blackhawk with historical introduction......Ex shape....$25.

IN THE TENNESSEE HILLS starring Charles Ray
Because of their unavailability in the past for screening purposes, film historians have tended to slight the films released by Kessel & Baumann's New York Motion Picture Corporation---the 101 Bison, Broncho, Kay-Bee and Domino brands. Few writers in the past have had access to no more than a handful. As a result, no fresh evaluation of these films, or of Thomas H. Ince, their guiding genius, has been made since their original release in the 1920's. While more of a production supervisor than a creative director, Ince managed to indelibly influence a large percentage by his insistence upon strict adherence to a detailed filming script. Watching one of Ince's films of the 1911-1915 period, the viewer senses a deeper story narrative than was common for the period and soon realizes that the entire plot is tightly structured and richly visualized. There is no waste or padding and the eye sees exactly what it needs to follow the story. While Ince did not personally direct every film, his complete script and presence in the editing room insured that the major creative effort of story interpretation was his alone. Released in February, 1915, "In the Tennessee Hills" is one of the films from this period and well illustrates the Ince touch.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 2-reeler  (approx 400-feet) from Blackhawk Films with historical introduction...........Ex-LN shape .......$25.





K - L - M


KNIGHT OF THE TRAIL (1915) starring William S. Hart
This is one of a dozen or more two-reelers starring William S. Hart produced along with  several features, by Thomas H. Ince during Hart's first year in the movies. Hart's popularity with the public was developing as rapidly as the growing approval of feature length productions and within a matter of months all of Hart's films were being produced as features. Hart is at odds with a character named W. Sloane Carey, a mining promoter with an easy way of getting other people's hard earned money. Sounds like a politician!
16mm / b & w / complete silent 2-reel release by Blackhawk Films / .......Sold pending payment

LOCAL COLOR (1916) starring Tom Mix with Victoria Forde
Here's a one-reel Tom Mix Western from the Selig era that is long on comedy. The word at the ranch is that a young woman writer is coming out from the East to get some "local color" for a new book. The boys decide they should cooperate, so they organize all sorts of activity  that would seem typical of the lawless West to make sure their visitor gets pleanty of what she's looking for! They even trick her into a fake wedding with Tom - but Tom and his cowboy friends have really  been taken on that, for the fake minister turns out to be a real one!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot Blackhawk release / .................L.N. shape......................$10.

LOST IN THE NIGHT  starring Pearl White and Chester Bennett
Pearl White is remembered today almost exclusively from her serial work which began in 1914 with "The Perils of Pauline". However, from 1910 to 1912 she was seen in many one-reelers made by Powers, Lubin and Pathe'. Late in 1912, the Crystal Film Company announced that she would henceforth appear exclusively in their productions which was quite an accomplishment for Pearl during a period when few players were even known to the general public by name. The star system had not yet taken form. During the next year, this series of one-reelers provided a new subject for the nickelodeons almost every week. If "Lost in the Night" is a fair example, this group must have been an unusually satisfactory series of films. This film was released on September 7, 1913.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot Blackhawk Films release / L.N. shape.................$15.

THE MAD LOVER starring Pearl White
When an engagement is ruined, a jealous lover goes on a rampage of revenge. Pete Smith could have used this corny-acted film in one of his "Specialties".
Super 8mm Sound-scored / color film stock / approximately 200-feet Perry's Films / ..........$10.

THE MAKING OF BRONCHO BILLY  (1913) starring Broncho Billy Anderson
City slicker Anderson doesn't gamble, doesn't drink and is challenged to fight with a gun and not his fists by the roughneck cowboys. He buys a gun and begins practicing his marksmanship. He gets involved with a roughneck who is wounded by Billy in a gun-slinging shoot-out. The rest of the gang go after Billy who is jailed but the gang decide to lynch Billy until the wounded man shows up and admits the fight was fair.
Regular 8mm  / b & w / silent /approximately 200-foot reel release by Blackhawk Films with historical introduction / Vg shape..........$10.

MAN'S GENESIS (1912) directed by D. W. Griffith
starring Mae Marsh, Robert Harron with W. Christie Miller, Wilfred Lucas, Charles Hill Mailes.
This was a daring move by Griffith at Biograph considering the subject matter alluded to as far as Darwinism and the word "genesis" in the title. The film was sufficiently successful to warrant a 3-reel sequel the following year with "Weakhands" inventing the bow and arrow.
Regular 8mm / b&w / complete 1-reeler from Blackhawk with historical introduction / L.N. shape............$10.

MEMORIES OF THE SILENT STARS # 3  "Personalities on Parade"
During the Great War (W.W. 1) many stars entertained the troops and sold war bonds. It was a real treat to see Marie Dressler, Mary Pickfor, Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin all at once in person. Such appearances sold both bonds and pictures. Stars and politicians had one thing in common---the need for publicity. Clara Kimball Young was invitedto sit with Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and his sister, Alice Longworth at the annual reunion of the Army's First Division. Charles Ray dropped by the Governor's mansion while in Mass. Actresses returning from Europe in the early twenties were such a common event that no one bothered meeting them except relatives and a newsreel cameraman. Virginia Valli (remember her?) faced just such a reception. M.G.M. star Claire Windsor is photographed  in a publicity reel. Douglas Fairbanks welcomes D.W. Griffith at the train station along with Eric Von Stroheim, producer Joe Schenk, actress Estelle Taylor and Sid Grauman. Lew Cody emcees a premiere and greets Sam Warner, Nazimova, Charles Ray, George K. Arthur, Charles Puffy, Roscoe Arbuckle,  director Lloyd French, Ernst Lubitch,  serial queen Ruth Roland, Marion Davies, Renee Adoree, Jack Mulhall, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Constance and Norma Talmadge
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition from Blackhawk / L.N. shape.......................$15.


MR. SILENT HASKINS (1915) starring William S. Hart
The cinema cowboy during the early silent era was essentially the same two-fisted, straight forward hero he was when William S. Hart made "Mr. Silent Haskins" for Thomas H. Ince in 1914.Every Western has it's villain but it is not generally known that Hart made his unofficial debut as a bad man. It happened right after Hart's arrival in Santa Monica when Ince suggested that he play a villain under an assumed name until they had a picture ready for him. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Hart played some real love scenes in his early films. "Mr. Silent Haskins" contains one of his few kissing scenes. Later he fell into line and concentrated his affections on his horse.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition by Blackhawk Films ...................L.N. shape..................$15.


MOVIE MILESTONES Volume 1
Certain great pictures of yesteryear stand out like milestones in movie history. Highlights from four famous features of the silent era; "Blood and Sand" (1922) with Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi and Lila Lee.  Valentino makes love to Lila at the height of his fame. He played a daring matador. Scenes of his bullfight are also shown. "The Covered Wagon" (1923) with Ernest Torrence, J. Warren Kerrigan and Alan Hale.  Who can forget the inspiring spectacle of the covered wagon trains as the pioneers blazed the trail to the golden West? Scenes of the two mile wagon train fording a river were masterpieces of realism. The Indians attack round and round the fiery bullet-swept circle of death. The pioneers won----the trek went on----half to Oregon and a new empire of homesteads. A most remarkable scene of an epic picture! "The Miracle Man" (1919) with Lon Chaney, Sr., Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Joseph Dowling, bristled with fine performances. Overnight it made stars of Meighan, Chaney and Compson. "Beau Geste"(1927) with Ronald Colman, Ralph Forbes, Noah Beery and William Powell. Remember the stirring battle scenes? At an isolated fort deep in the Sahara, the small force of Foriegn Legion holds off a fierce native attack.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reel release by Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape...........................$10.
 

N - O - P
 

PERILS OF PAULINE "The Tragic Plunge"
Pearl White stars in Chapter 7 of the original "Perils of Pauline" movie serial. Also in the cast is Paul Panzer and Crane Wilbur. This was not the first movie serial ever made but it was a huge success and Pearl White became synonymous with the serial queens of the silent era cinema. This is an unusually good chapter and is longer than most and the story thread that's easier to follow. It has to do with a woman spy, Miss De Yagow, who is out to capture inside information on U. S. submarines. As the story progresses, Pauline is invited aboard the submarine which is then sunk by a bomb to the harbor bottom. Of course, Pauline escapes in a thrilling finale.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel release by Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape...........................$15.(SOLD)

PERILS OF PAULINE "Deadly Turning"
Pearl White stars in this chapter of the original movie serial classic "Perils of Pauline" from 1914.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200' -reel edition by Blackhawk Films with historic introduction ..............$10.

PERILS OF PAULINE "Goddess of the Far West"
Pearl White stars in  the original "Perils of Pauline" movie serial. Also in the cast is Paul Panzer and Crane Wilbur.
In this wild adventure tale, Pauline arrives in Montana to visit a friend and to recuperate from her harrowing experiences in her first "Peril". She hardly leaves the railway station when she is snatched by some villains and carried off to a new adventure with the Indians.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel release by Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape...........................$15.

PERILS OF PAULINE "The Floating Coffin"
Pearl White stars in the ninth chapter of the original movie serial classic "Perils of Pauline" from 1914.
In this episode, Harry has bought a yacht and is cruising on the sea with his betrothed, Pauline. Kerner accompanies the young couple on their cruise and continually thinks of how he can get rid of his ward. The admiralty has given orders for real gunnery to be carried out and the officers are choosing the target for practice. Kerner hatches a plot against the couple as the next day, the fleet takes up position and the target boat is prepared for the practice in real gunnery. Pauline takes a ride on the boat that is sabotaged by Kerner. It sinks and she winds up on the target boat!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films with historic introduction / used but good shape shape.................$10.


POTEMKIN  (1926) "The Odessa Steps Massacre" sequence of Sergei Eisenstein's classic
Russian director Sergei Eisenstin skillfully combines spectacular long shots of orchestrated crowds with tight, emotional close-ups of anonymous characters to brig the left-wing communist propaganda to the enslaved people of Russia back in 1926. His narrative is still powerful despite the biased party line control over his work.
 The  dawn brought the news to the town of a mutiny in the battleship "Potemkin". And on the shore, a sailor is murdered. There is massive public outrage. A revolution is festering. "Down with the autocracy" the masses cry (as though they replaced it with something else?) They cry out to fight for freedom ( with communism?) With the greatest of anxiety, the people watched the development of events on the mutinous Potemkin. In those memorable days, the city shared the fife of the mutinous battleship. The people of Odessa took coal, food and water to the sailors. There was a continuous flow of small boats to Potemkin's gangway. Suddenly, a massive slaughter of citizens at the Odessa steps! The guns of the battleship reply to the brutality  pf the Military command at the tyrant's stronghold.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 400-foot edition / used but good shape / ........................$10.




Q - R - S

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THE RIVAL RAILROAD PLOT
Kalem's series "The Hazards of Helen" was one of the commercial successes of the mid-teens, with 110 titles released on a weekly basis between 1914 and 1917. Helen Holmes was the "Helen" in the first forty eight episodes. Helen Gibson played the part over the remainder of the series. Originally one-reelers, they were re-edited and expanded into 2-reelers by Aywon when they acquired reissue rights. The "Rival Railroad Plot" illustrates the making of a new story by re-editing. It's footage extracted principally from Chapter 24, "A Race for a Crossing" and Chapter 37 "The Girl on the Engine". Scenes in the dispatcher's office were from at least another episode in the series.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reeler release from Blackhawk Films with historical introduction / Ex-L.N. shape.....$25.

SCREEN SOUVENIRS # 11 - Society debs and their "swains" whoop it up in an old-time dancing orgy. William .Jennings Bryan,  leader of the Democratic party for 30 years addresses a great rally at the Washington baseball park. Known as the "silver-tongued orator", Bryan attracted large crowds wherever he made an address. He ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States three times. An excerpt from a 1905 movie called "The Hoodoo Car" shows that the pioneer motorist's life was not a happy one. New York's  1^st Subway opens! Under the influence of Scotch, a movie troupe- made this immortal drummer of the land o' heather and bagpipes film called "All For A Lassie" .
Regular 8mm  / b & w / silent / released by Blackhawk Films 1-reel (approx. 200') Ex shape.......................$10.

SCREEN SOUVENIRS # 19 - A 1905 football classic - Michigan battles Chicago showing a style of play that made no-man's land look like a playground. Stars of yesterday ; unforgettable glimpses of the players who made movie history in "Birth of a Nation".George Barringer and Bobby Harron play pals who have to enlist in the war on opposite sides. A touching episode with Mae Marsh. A young Southern girl, reduced to poverty by the war, Mae has fastened bits of cotton on her ragged dress and tearfully tries to pretend she is queen in ermine. Mary Alden and Ralph Lewis had outstanding parts and Lillian Gish, playing the daughter of Lewis, was one of the stars. Miss Gish is also seen in one of her lighter scenes. Her work in this role was nothing short of an acting triumph and her distinctive style was widely imitated by screen heroines of the day. And who can forget Henry B. Walthall as the Little Colonel, a role which raised him to leadership among the male stars in pictures. Chicago on Parade; in 1909, proud motorists never missed a chance to show off their new-fangled cars. Next, a "drammer" of the days when silk-hatted villains hissed through black moustaches and the women  paid and paid...featuring Florence Lawrence as "Two-Card Kate" and Arthur Johnson as "Dr. Kronkheit" (without his only living patient!) closes out this reel.
Regular 8mm / b &w / silent / release by Blackhawk Films 1-reel (approx. 200') L.N. shape..................$10.

THE SILENT ENEMY - A Burden-Chanler Production - directed by H. P. Carver
Regular 8mm / b&w /  silent (approximately 700-feet)  Blackhawk Films / used  shape., has projection lines........$15.

THE SOCIAL SECRETARY (1916) starring Norma Talmadge & Eric Von Stroheim
"The Social Secretary" is one of several feature pictures made by Norma Talmadge for Triangle in 1915 and 1916 after her departure from Vitagraph where she had been one of the lesser stars for that pioneer company.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / approximately 800-feet / released by Blackhawk Films / ........................$25.

SPIES  directed by Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang is one of the few truly international directors and the great monuments of the first German phase of his career are "Destiny", "Metropolis" and the Nibelungen films. But he also had great success with his crime pictures, most notably the Dr. Mabuse series along with "Spies" and "M". The story of "SPIES" was written by Lamg's wife, Thea von Harbou, who later became a nazi and the social backround it reflects is not a happy one. This has led to some historians reading deep sociological significance into "SPIES" and seeing it as an atmosphere which produced Hitler.  One thing is certain, Lang left his wife behind him when he fled from Germany to avoid accepting Goebbel's offer to take control of the German film industry. Lang has indicated that films like "SPIES" and similar crime films reflected "images of our times."
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete feature release by Blackhawk Films / used but good. shape, normal projection wear...........................$35.

STORY OF THE SILENT SERIALS - a documentary by Paul Killiam
From the early teens with Pearl White through to the end of the silent era, Paul Killiam has assembled many great highlights and thrills from a staple of the motion picture industry; the serial adventure.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete documentary release by Blackhawk / approx  700 feet ........Ex-LN shape.........$20.





T - U - V


 

THE TOLL GATE starring William S. Hart
The Toll Gate is considered by many to be one of Hart's best films. It was one of his earlier 1920 productions that went into original release through Famous-Players Lasky.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk Films release of the restored original feature with historical introduction....approx 800' ....Ex-LN shape.....$35.

THOSE AWFUL HATS ( 1909) directed by D. W, Griffith
Probably the shortest film ever directed by D. W. Griffith, this is more in the line of a comic prologue short to be used in place of the glass slide sing alongs generally preceding the main attraction. Mack Sennett is the character in the checkered jacket and top hat while Flora Finch appears in the most grotesque of all the hats! (though that's a difficult choice!). The most disruptive of women are snatched by a huge steam shovel and lifted up and out of the theater! Also on this reel is a Blackhawk Films sampler of other Griffith and silent era films.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk Films release with historical introduction....approx 300' total................Ex-LN shape.....$8.

A TIMELY INTERCEPTION  directed by D. W. Griffith
starring Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish stars in this D. W. Griffith production. The comparison of two styles of living (the happy home) and (the anguished home) are part of the elements Griffith employed along with the scenic shots and the suspenseful race to the rescue with last second arrivals of the hero. "A Timely Interception" has much of the beauty of Griffith's rural dramas (like "True Heart Susie" and "The Greatest Question") in which, as with this film, oil plays an important part. Class envy against oil companies in 1913 was just as prevalent as today.
Super 8mm  / b & w / silent / 200-foot complete film from Blackhawk Films with historical introduction / L.N. shape / ..............$15.

UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne (1914)
A clever ruse to avoid a state marriage and the loss of his income is hatched between Prince Phillip and his friend Dick Savage, but it meets up with court intrigue, a beautiful woman and a second ruse for a surprise ending!
In 1911, Essanay signed up  a sculptor's model named Frances X. Bushman and almost immediately he became a romantic idol of that era. He won a Hero Contest sponsored by Ladies' World Magazine and beat out such luminaries as Maurice Costello, J. Warren Kerrigan, Arthur Johnson, Crane Wilbur and Carlyle Blackwell. About a year later, Beverly Bayne, a Minneapolis society girl visiting Chicago, was spotted by an Essanay director during a tour of the Company's studio on Argyle Street, and started on the road to stardom. What was a screen romance soon became a real one for those two Essanay stars and they tried to keep the news of their marriage from reaching the public for fear that it might adversely affect their popularity. In 1915, the Bushmans moved to Metro where they remained a popular starring team until W.W. 1.  After their starring careers ended, Bushman continued to do character parts and stood out in the role of Messala in M.G.M.s silent 1926 production of Ben Hur.
Super 8mm  / b & w / silent / 400-foot complete film from Blackhawk Films with historical introduction / L.N. shape / ..............$15.




W - X - Y - Z


WIFE AND AUTO TROUBLE starring The Keystone Cops
This is one of Mack Sennett's most memorable Keystone Cop chase comedies. William Collier, Sr. is a henpecked husband whose wife pampers everyone in the household but him. Seeking the comfort of his secretary, played by the ever popular Mae Busch, he takes her to lunch in his auto only to be discovered by his Amazonian wife, mother-in-law and worthless brother-in-law. The chase is on for a wild Keystone-Sennett climax!
Super 8mm / b&w / 1-reeler from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape......................$10.

THE WIRELESS LIZZIE starring Walter Hiers
This roaring 20's era comedy features funny fat-man Walter Hiers as a Rube-Goldberg-style inventor who promotes a radio-operated automobile (often referred to as "Tin-Lizzies or just "Lizzies" in those days. Wild happenings when the wires are crossed!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel comedy from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape / .................$10.

THE WOMAN IN GRAY
starring Arline Pretty with Henry G. Sell
This is episode seven, titled "At the Mercy of the Flames". Mrs. Haynes, Amory's housekeeper was found murdered. On evidence of Mary Edwards, servant Florence Haynes, an adopted daughter was convicted but died in prison. Mary Edwards then disappeared. Two codes left by Amory's father at death are sought by the mysterious J. Haviland Hunter and Ruth Hope, the Woman in Gray. Hunter has recovered one and Ruth, the other. Tom Thurston, in love with Ruth, has incurred the jealousy of Paula Wynne, Amory's niece so Paula plots with Hunter to establish Ruth's identity.  Ralph Gordon, attorney for Florence Haynes at her trial is summoned to clear  the mystery. Paula has trapped Ruth and....the action in this serial begins....
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / complete chapter release by Blackhawk Films with music score........$20.