KEY:    sof ; sound on film   silent; silent double sprocket or dead track    1-r; one reel (approximately 400 feet in 16mm or 200 feet in 8mm; average running time 10 minutes)  2-r; two reels (approximately 700-800 feet in 16mm or 350-400 feet in 8mm or 17-20 minutes)  3-r; three reels (approximately 900-1,000 feet in 16mm or 600 feet in 8mm or 25-30 minutes)  
Sp order; special order from lab negative, prints not on hand for immediate shipment.

NEW ARRIVALS -

Short Films -





LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL - Documentary
Super 8mm / b & w / silent  / Blackhawk release / ..............$15.

EPISODES FROM LIGHTNING BRYCE - Jack Hoxie
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk release / approx 300 feet / ..........$15.

HAUNTED SPOOKS - Harold Lloyd
Super 8mm / b & w / silent /  Blackhawk release /  approx 400 feet / ........$10.

LOCAL COLOR - Tom Mix
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 1 reel Blackhawk release /  approx 200 feet............$8.


MEMORIES OF THE SILENT STARS - Chaney, Valentino, etc
Blood and Sand, Covered Wagon, Miracle Worker, Beau Geste scenes
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk release / ...................$15.


THE ROARING RIDER -
 Buffalo Bill Jr and Jean Arthur
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Film Classic Exchange / approx. 400 feet / ................$20.

GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY - Broncho Billy Anderson
Regular 8mm / B& w / silent / Film Classic Exchange / approx 200 feet / ...................$5.

HORSE OPERA HEROES -
Ken Maynard, Tom Mix, FredThomson, etc
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / Entertainment Films release / approx 200 feet / ..................$5.

CRAZY GROOM
starring Billy Dooley
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / Film Classic Exchange / approx 200 feet / ........$10.

SECRET TRAILS -
starring Bob Steele (Bill and Bob)
Regular 8mm / b &w / silent /  Film Classic Exchange / approx 400 feet / ........................$20.

THE SAWMILL -
starring Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, Fatty Alexander
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Film Classic Exchange release/  approx 400 feet / ...........$15.

BRINEY BOOB -
starring Billy Dooley
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / Film Classic Exchange / approx 200 feet / ......................$10.

RIDING RIVALS -
Buddy Roosevelt
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / Film Classic Exchange / approx 200 feet / ...................$10.


SILENT HOOF BEATS - Silent western stars
Super 8mm / b&w / silent / 2 reels (not sure of company) approx 200 feet SUPER 8mm (1 reel in white cardboard box and 1 reel in metal can)


A - B



 

AMERICA'S SWEETHEART - LITTLE MARY
starring Mary Pickford
with Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand and Billy Quirk
No silent screen actress was more beloved than Mary Pickford and this short documentary traces the formative years of her career at Biograph with excerpts from five outstanding films in which she appeared in he years 1909 to 1912.Se;lected scenes  from "ALL ON ACCOUNT OF THE MILK" (1910), "AN ARCADIAN MAID" (1910), THE NEW YORK HAT (1912), THE MENDER OF THE NETS (1912) and "NEVER AGAIN" 1910
Super 8mm  / b & w / silent / approx 250-foot-reel from Blackhawk Films  runs about 16 minutes / .......L.N. shape.........$15.

BEZHIN MEADOW- Although not intended as a silent film, this reconstruction is silent with titles.
In 1932, Sergei Eisenstein returned to the Soviet Union (the one in Russia, not here) frustrated and bitter after his film "Que Viva Mexico" had been taken from him before he could complete it. Three years passed before Eisenstein began on what was to be his fiirst sound film, "Bezhin Meadow". It was inspired by a story of Turgeniev, and was to be about the young pioneers and their contribution to the Soviet collective farming. Eisenstein worked nearly two years to make this film. As it progressed it became more complex and experiments more daring. Eisenstein was at a peak of creative excitement, consumed by the potential of sound and it's relationship to image. However, in his search for form, he broke away from the big government-approved treatment of collectivization to make a symbolic struggle between a boy of the New Russia and his evil father, the old Russia. After two million roubles had been spent, the political administrator of the Soviet film industry halted the project and attacked Eisenstein for producing a film of "harmful, formalistic exercises". The film was banned and later destroyed This reconstruction of the film is culled from frame fragments and sketches saved by Eisenstein's splicing bench.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent - 2 reels BLACKHAWK approx 400 feet/ L.N. shape ........................$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 ...............$8.

BIG RED RIDING HOOD (1925)
stars Charley Chase (as his early screen persona, Jimmy Jump) who has been commissioned to translate the book "Little Red Riding Hood" in to Swedish. However Charley is financially challenged and must grab ganders at the book from an open-air bookstand (tended by a persnickety old man and his lovely daughter - the cute as a button, Martha Sleeper.) The film contains a daydream sequence (with Helen Gilmore as the title character!) and a climax involving a bit of dark humor (a motorist who has purchased the book is murdered!) and one of the weirdest sights on film - Charley riding on a bicycle along side a runaway car - all the while totally immersed in reading the book that's sitting on the backseat! Directed by Leo McCarey. Produced by Hal Roach and released through Pathe.
16mm /color tinted / silent / one-reel.....current lab costs at $110.

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.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 16 minute digest edition from Blackhawk Films / Ex - L.N. shape.........$10.

THE BLACK PIRATE - Douglas Fairbanks -
"The Black Pirate" was hailed in 1926 as the "return" of the Douglas Fairbanks who'd breezed through several peppy comedies before starring in lavish costume epics like "Robin Hood" (1922) and "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924). The story involves a young nobleman (Fairbanks) whose father is killed by pirates. He vows to avenge his dad's death by becoming a buccaneer himself and routing out the villains. Along the way, he rescues damsel-in-distress Billie Dove (likewise of noble birth) and engages in a few bloody duels with the swarthy likes of Sam De Grasse and Anders Randolph. Charlie Stevens, a grandson of American Indian chief Geronimo — and whom Fairbanks regarded as a "lucky charm" — appears in several tiny roles.- Hal Ericson
Super 8mm / b & w / silent - 2 reels BLACKHAWK approx 700 feet........................$20.

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 / 200-foot reel complete film by Blackhawk Films / ...................$8.
Super 8mm   / b & w /  silent  / 200-foot reel complete film by Blackhawk Films.......................$8.

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..................$10.

COPS starring Buster Keaton
Probably his best remembered early short comedy often used in highlight forms by Robert Youngson and Paul Killiam in their retrospect documentaries such as "When Comedy Was King". This is the COMPLETE short with the often missing "goat gland" gag.
16mm  / b & w / silent double perf  /dupe  (there really are no bonafied "originals" on these early Keatons / ......$125.

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 300') with historical introduction / L.N. shape/......$15.

CORONATION DAYS 1902 and 1911 and other pictures
Produced by Dorothy T. Stone
This early Blackhawk retrospect opens with August of 1902 when the Victorian Era came to an end and Edward VII was crowned King. Shown is the golden coach as it carried Edward to Westminster Abbey for the Coronation ceremonies. Later that year, Kaiser Willhelm came to London to pay tribute to the King and show his affection for his Royal cousin. The world was at peace. In 1904, George V, then Prince of Wales, welcomed to England the President of France. England was building alliances. In the peaceful years between 1902 and 1911, the bridal paths of Hyde Park often saw George and other members of the Royal family out for an early morning canter. And in the United Sates in 1911, William Howard Taft was in the White House. Suffragettes were out en masse. The Governor of New Jersey was Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton University. And back in England in 1911, the golden coach rolled again through the heart of London at George V was crowned King of England. The royal coach was followed by the carriages carrying members of the Royal Family. England has always loved pageantry. George and May, his Queen, moved with dignity and devotion through the ceremonies that marked the years.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot reel / Blackhawk Films release / original box.............$10.

THE COUNT starring Charles Chaplin
The Count is Chaplin's fifth film in the series Produced by Mutual during the 1916-1917 period. It was released on Sept. 4, 1916. Charlie plays the tailor's assistant, Edna Purviance plays Miss Moneybags, Eric Campbell plays the tailor, James T. Kelly is the butler, Leo White is The Count. Albert Austin plays a guest, Charlotte Mineau is the mother and Frank J. Coleman plays a policeman.
16mm  / b & w / silent double perf stock / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films / approx. 800-feet / L.N. shape.......$115.

COWBOY GRIT
A rancher gives a new hire a test by having him ride an unbroken horse.
16mm / b & w / Tinted stock double perf / 100-foot reel digest from Hollywood Enterprises / ..................$5.

CRUEL, CRUEL LOVE (1914) starring Charlie Chaplin
Sennett/Keystone. This was long a lost film until this rather nice material was found. Charlie Chaplin stars as a well to do suitor (playing a variation of his "sharper"
character from his debut film, MAKING A LIVING) courting  the equally affluent Minta Durfee. The couple breaks up due to a misunderstanding. Dejected, Charlie goes home and decides to commit suicide, but his jovial butler (Edgar Kennedy) has replaced his poisoned drink with a harmless glass of water. Nonetheless, Charlie THINKS he's ingested poison and thus follows some of the hammiest melodramatics Chaplin ever performed on film (replete with a rather shocking vision of Charlie being tormented by pitchfork-throttling devils in Hell !!!!) A must have for Chaplin buffs.
16mm / sil. / b & w /silent/"one reel" approx. 400' )......................................................Sp order.......... (currently at) $115.

DAYS OF McKINLEY, BRYAN AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT
Produced by Dorothy T. Stone
This early Blackhawk retrospect opens with The Bowery, New York in the 1890's. Next, the World's Columbian Exposition; the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 with it's contrasts: Little Egypt" and replicas of the fountains of Versailles. Thomas Edison, whose invention of the incandescent light, the phonograph and the movie "kinetoscope" was the marvel of the age! Next, a bicycle race at Columbus Circle in New York. Old trains provided commuting. A Tammany outing at the turn of the century. On a Sunday afternoon, the ladies showed off their bonnets in the park. Next we see the populist politician William Jennings Bryan. President McKinley's Inaugural Parade and the famous Black Horse Cavalry are shown. Admiral Dewey's Flagship is home for repairs after the victorious Battle of Manila Bay. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders return from Cuba and their famous charge up San Juan Hill. Next, President McKinley is mourned after his assassination at the Buffalo Exposition. Teddy Roosevelt becomes the next President.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot reel / Blackhawk Films release / original box.............$10.

DOUBLE CLINCHED -
Leo Maloney
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / Film Classic Exchange / approx 400 feet / ..............$20.





E - F






FANGS OF VENGEANCE
starring Fearless, the police dog with Joseph Young, Dick Carter, Layfayette McKee, Betty Baker and Billy Franey
One of the many Rin Tin Tin animal adventure imitations during the silent era.
Regular 8mm /b & w / silent / approx 400-feet / unknown source Ex-...LN shape....................$10.

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.

THE FIREMAN  (1917)
starring Charles Chaplin
with Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance, Leo White
This is essentially the second half of the original 2-reeler with Charlie playing checkers in the firehouse when Leo White's home catches on fire. He first tries to use the fire call box only to be ignored by Charlie. Leo then comes to the firehouse to beg Charlie to stop playing games and rescue his home from the blaze (strong union!). Finally, they go to the fire and Charlie rescues Edna from the second story window.
16mm  / b & w  silent  double perf stock / approx. 400-foot reel version / .................$15.









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.

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) / G  shape //......................$15.

HENNESSEY OF THE MOUNTED
starring George Ovey and Alice Arly
George Ovey's stage career began with the Beach and Bowers Minstrels in Kansas City. Ovey came to the attention of movie fans in 1915 when David Horsley signed him to star in "Made in America" or MinA Films. The two continued their association through a lengthily series of Cub Comedies but parted company after World War 1. Ovey next appeared in Universal Rainbow Comedies during 1918 through 1920. In the autumn of 1921, the Pacific Film Company was formed to produce for independent release.  Ovey was signed to star in a series of 26 one-reel comedies, as was Vernon Dent. The alternating release of these two series allowed a new "Folly Comedy" to appear each week. Pacific Film provided Ovey's final starring roles and the latter twenties found him as comic relief in Universal serials. One of the "Folly Comedies", "Hennessey of the Mounted" cast Ovey in a dual role. It is technically well done for an independwent release from an obscure company" Today, it provides an interesting look at a popular comic of the World War 1 era who is all but forgotten.
Regular 8mm / b & w / complete 1-reeler  / L. N.  shape / orig. Blackhawk box.......................$20SOLD pending payment

HIGH AND DIZZY  Special new custom edition  (1920) Roach/Pathe comedy.
Harold Lloyd stars in one of his most hilarious and "hair-raising" two-reelers. Harold has a failing medical practice and is desperate for patients. Upon a "walk-in" by
lovely Mildred Davis who seeks treatment for sleepwalking, Harold is immediately smitten and ingeniously creates the illusion that his business is thriving. Later he
helps colleague Roy Brooks "save" a batch of bootleg brew and the sloshed pair avert one mishap after another, all the while creating small disasters for those unfortunate enough to cross their path. The film concludes with a remarkable "thrill" sequence with Harold in plenty of danger on the ledge of a hotel building, thanks to sleepwalking Mildred! Directed by Hal Roach. All original titles and intertitles. This new "deluxe" edition comes replete with a dynamite custom synchronized track featuring music by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.
16mm /sof / B&W/silent with music & effects /"two reels" approx 800-feet) .................Sp order...(currently at) $225.

HIS WIFE'S SECRET  (Essanay, 1915)
starring G. M. Anderson with Marguerite Clayton, Lee Willard
This is not one of Anderson's "bronco Billy" westerns. Here, he plays the role of the burglar which is possibly influenced by his early work in "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman" series he collaborated on wit Vitagraph in 1905.
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / 200-foot release  from Blackhawk Films with historical introduction / LN shape.........$10.

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 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....$15.

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!
Regular 8mm / b & w / complete silent 2-reel release by Blackhawk Films / ......................$15.

KNIGHT OF THE TRAIL -
William S Hart -  (not sure of company)
Regular 8mm / B & w / silent / 2 reels- approx 400 feet........$12.

LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Action takes place near Fort William Henry withan intense battle.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 400-foot reel segment/ ......................$8.

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.

THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS starring Eddie Polo
The Lure of the Circus was produced as an eighteen chapter serial by Universal during the closing months of World War I. The story was written by William Wing and the scenario by Hope Loring. The production was directed buy J. P. McGowan. In this production the Sells-Floto Circus facilities were used as the circus background in the opening chapters, while the Barnum and Bailey Circus provided the settings for the closing episodes. With the circus background as well as the atmosphere of a booming oil field, the episodes revolve around Eddie Polo as "Eddie Somers", the hero and part owner of the Great Western Circus and a trapeze artist of some repute who finds himself the middleman in one near disastrous situation after another as he fights not only for his share of the circus against almost insurmountable odds, but takes on enemies of his father who seek to ruin the elder man's good luck in an oil field venture and is also involved in solving the inheritance mystery of the niece of one of his archenemies. As the chapters gain momentum, the daring young hero braves a blazing oil field, several times almost meets a watery death, is almost crushed under the wheels of a heavy circus wagon, is attacked by a circus lion and battles almost hopelessly with a savage leopard, dodges bullets and knives, rides a motorcycle at death-defying speed, and is tied hand and foot while his life is threatened by a time bomb set to explode in exactly three minutes! Whew! Imagine if all 18 chapters survived!
Super 8mm  / b & w  / silent / approximately 900-1,000 -feet / Blackhawk Films with historical introduction..........$35.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent /approximately 900-1,000 -feet / Blackhawk Films with historical introduction..........$35.

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 FROM TIAUANA
starring Jack Hoxie
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk release/  approx 400 feet ....$15.

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.

MELIES. PRESTIDIGITATOR (1903 & 04)
George Melies was, of course, a stage magician long before he ever thought of making motion pictures, and the simplest type of film simply transfers the prestidigitator's art to the screen. He took full advantage of all the additional effects the camera afforded. The first offering is "TEN LADIES IN AN UMBRELLA" from 1903. By the simple use of jump cuts, Melies appears to be bringing one lady after another from behind an opened umbrella, The next film is "TIT FOR TAT" (no, not the Laurel and Hardy comedy of  32 years later!) In this illusion, Meles changes head gear then appears to put his own head in a glass box. He blows smoke into the box with the alternate head only to have it escape and spit on him from above! The third film on this compilation is "THE ENCHANTWE ALCROFRISBAS". A wizard produces a woman from a flaming urn. Then transforms a statue into a live woman via a lap dissolve. Then the old levitated woman trick is employed A group of white-sheeted "ghosts" run amok at the finale of this short film.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition by Blackhawk Films /clean, no splices, minor projection lines here and there......$10..

MELIES' BARON MUNCHAUSEN'S DREAM
Although Melies pioneered much in the early days of cinema, he also built on others as well. Taking a theme from a 1906 Edison fantasy called"Dream of a Rarebit Fiend", this 1911 remake has most of the Melies characteristic gimmicks and tricks that made his films popular until a new wave of directors and film makers passed him by in the mid-teens.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition by Blackhawk Films with historical introduction /clean, L.N. shape.......$15.

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 Pickford, 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 invited to 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.

A MISSION OF STATE  Chapter 11 of the "Grant, Police Reporter" series
starring George Larkin with Ollie Kirkby, Robert Ellis, William McKay
One of the silent era screen's earliest daredevils, George Larkin's career began in 1907 with Edison. Over the next four years, Eclair, Powers, Pathe, Universal, Ideal and Kalem made use of his athletic ability in comedies ,drams and serials. George Larkin was the prototype of the dashing screen hero, whose physical agility was his greatest asset, and early movie fans appreciated the exploits of this daring young man. Larkin reached the peak of his popularity with Kalem, when he was starred in the "Great, Police Reporter" series in late 1916. Unfortunately, Kalem was nearing it's end and the handsome athlete's career stalled. In the 1920's, the only outlet for his talents were a few low budget Universal features and the independent market of westerns and serials. But at the height of his career, Larkin foreshadowed the success to be enjoyed by his successor to the title of "stunt King", Charles Hutchinson. Larkin is still remembered for his devil-may-care attitude toward danger and "A Mission of State" represents his work from this period.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk release/  approx 200 feet ....$20.
 

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.

MR ROBINSON CRUSOE
starring Douglas Fairbanks -
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk release / approx 300 feet...........$15.
 

MUGGSY'S FIRST SWEETHEART
Directed by D. W. Griffith
starring Billy Quirk, Mary Pickford, George Nichols, Flora Finch
Released in 1910, this is an example of the early movie fare which became so popular with audiences. Today, it's clothes, streets, houses and interiors all have a nostalgic historical interest but one hundred years has no effect on Mary Pickford's charm which is ageless. Griffith fans will note that he had the "Uplifters" of "Intolerance" on the brain as early as 1910.
Regular  8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition from Blackhawk Films................................$15.



N - O - P

THE NICKEL-HOPPER starring Mabel Normand, Boris Karloff, Oliver Hardy (1926)
Roach/Pathecomedy. The lovely Mabel Normand stars in one of her very last films - where she plays the hard working "Paddy" - a babysitter by day and a taxi
dancer by night. Her drab life is forever complicated by her lazy and overbearing father who scares away her prospective suitors. This light comic "featurette"
(which nonetheless includes plenty of slapstick and sight gags) also features Oliver Hardy as an overly enthusiastic drummer, Boris Karloff as a creepy "masher"
and the ever-popular James Finlayson. Stan Laurel co-wrote the story and gags. Directed by F. Richard Jones. Provided on lowfade color stock with beautiful tints -
amber for day scenes, blue for night scenes and rose for the dancehall sequences. The overall picture quality is excellent. It has all it's original titles and intertitles.
16mm / sil / ( Color Tinted / Silent / "three reels"  ...........................Sp order.... (currently at) $280.

NIFTY NUMBERS starring Neil Burns
Francis Lee, Billy Engle and Neil Burns star in the lively show-biz comedy. Some ladies under-garment designers need models to sell their skimpy products so they make a deal with some show girls to model them at a party at the hotel. They engaged in a game of strip poker with the buyer as a novel way of showing him the under garments. But a crowd of voyeurs watching the stripping going on create a riot in the hotel and the group is forced to flee the police!
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / music added  / 200-foot-reel edition from probably Thunderbird Films ....................................$10.

ON A GOOD OLD 5-CENT TROLLY RIDE (1905) Edison Studios
This primitive comedy from pioneering studio Edison contains the misadventures of a drunk on a bumpy trolly car. With each stop, more and more variety of people   get on until the car starts to get as  crowded as the Marx Brother's stateroom! A thief steals a goose from one of the passengers. (A real goose, not the other kind of stolen goose!) The whole carload of passengers jump off and take to a chase on foot after the thief. Also on this reel is "A TRIP TO SALT LAKE CITY", produced  by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company and copyrighted June 5, 1905. When this film was made, not so many years had passed since polygamy had been widely practiced by the Mormons of Utah. A comedy theme based on plural marriage thus had more in common with audiences of that day than with today. A railroad sleeper car is the scene of this short vignette. A series of women with babies enter and get into various berths. Finally, the Mormon husband arrives and it turns out he has engaged the entire car! The frenetic wives descend upon him for milk for the army of babies. He solves the problem by brining in a huge milk container with a network of tubes going into each berth for the hungry infants.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel   from Blackhawk films..used with some minor wear, otherwise good shape...........$10.

ONE WEEK starring Buster Keaton
Buster is awarded a honeymoon house as a do-it-yourself special that is supposed to be built in one week. A jealous rival switches the numbers on the crates causing Buster to build one of the most bizarre looking homes you ever saw! He invites the in-laws for a visit and s hurricane strikes with wild results!
16mm  / b & w / silent doule perf  / nice Blackhawk print  (there really are no bonafied "originals" on these early Keatons /  print in mint shape......$125.

PAYDAY starring Charlie Chaplin
with Mack Swain, Syd Chaplin
This comedy is from his First National period. Charlie plays a construction worker who is at odds with his boss, Mack Swain but manages to keep his job.. After some slapstick gags at the workplace, Charlie gets his salary and tries to hide it from his burly, rolling-pin-toting wife. His attempts to catch a crowded trolly car keep him in town late where he gets drunk and celebrates with his comrades by singing along. When Charlie finally gets home in the wee hours of the morning, he attempts to sneak in and get undressed but his wife awakens so he pretends he just got up and is just on his way to work. He winds up sleeping in the bathtub, full of water, fully clothed!
16mm Sound / b & w   / 800-foot reel  / music and sound effects / nice, sharp dupe print with good contrast and detail....................$125.

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 "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.

PERILS OF PAULINE "The Pirate's Treasure"
Pearl White stars in a chapter of the original movie serial classic "Perils of Pauline" from 1914.In this episode Pearl wishes to compete in a cross-country automobile race.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete edition by Blackhawk Films with historic introduction / L.N. shape........$12.

THE PLAY HOUSE (1921) Comique / First National
Here we have one of the holy grails of 16mm film collecting - previously only ever available in practically unwatchable dupes with missing footage -- offered here for the very first time in a SUPERB new complete edition!!!! Buster Keaton stars in one of his first bonafide masterpieces as a stagehand who dreams of himself in multiple exposure (executed masterfully and magically through photography by Elgin Lessley.) Upon awaking from his dream, Buster encounters as well as creates more comic surrealism within a vaudeville setting. Buster is supported by Virginia Fox, one of two stage twins he falls in love with and burly Joe Roberts, his stage boss who he is constantly at odds with,. Written and directed by Keaton and Eddie Cline. This new edition boasts excellent picture quality AND ALL ORIGINAL INTERTITLES -INCLUDING MAIN OPENING TITLES AND END TITLE!!!! (not even the Kino Video edition has original titles !) The closing leader even retains the "End Part One/Part Two" title cards (which originally came between reels one and two). Finally, this edition contains a truly dynamite custom synchronized track using authentic period music by the stellar Paragon Ragtime Orchestra! This is truly THE edition to have on this title and will become a treasured part of your film collection.
16mm /b & w / silent with music & effects/ approx 800-feet / ..............Sp order...(currently at) $225.

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


RED BLOOD - Al Hoxie
Universal cowboy Jack Hoxie's lesser known brother, Al, starred in a series of westerns produced by Morris R. Schlank.  "Red Blood" is one of the few surviving Al Hoxie westerns The story is about a family saved from a crooked gambler's scheme. Hoxie was good-looking and a better actor than his more famous brother but didn't make as many westerns. "Red Blood" features villain, Lew Meehan, whose florid acting style is something of a hoot to modern audiences. Portions of this synopsis provided by Hans J. Wollstein
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent /  2 reels FILM CLASSIC EXCHANGE approx 800 feet ..........................$55.

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.

SEEING STARS (c1922) featuring Buster Keaton with Charlie Chaplin & all star cast
First National. Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin appear TOGETHER on screen some thirty years before their teaming in LIMELIGHT in the First National promotional film, SEEING STARS ("the only motion picture of it's kind ever made"). Their appearance together is at a dinner held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to form the Independent Screen Actors Guild. Chaplin is seated alongside Jackie Coogan - Thomas Ince and Marshall Neilan are also with them. Keaton appears to be"the waiter" for the evening and, as a running gag, he keeps taking dinnerware away from Jackie! The film also promotes the upcoming releases of THE BALLOONATIC, DAYDREAMS and THE PILGRIM - utilizing unused alternate takes from those films! Others who appear throughout this "First National Attraction" include Norma and Constance Talmadge, Richard Barthelmess, Ben Turpin, Charles Ray and Louis B. Mayer. While the film is over 10 minutes long (over 400-feeet) it is obviously not complete - it's fragmentary state due to nitrate decomposition. However this material represents all that survives of this rare and unique piece of silent cinema history.
16mm / silent / b & w / approx 400-feet / ....................................Sp order... (currently at) $149.

SHERIFF OF STONE GULCH - (1913)
starring Ruth Roland  Directed by Marshall Neilan
Although destined to become the second greatest of the fabulous Serial Queens, Ruth Roland's screen career began modestly in 1911 at Kalem's Santa Monica studio. In three and a half years with Kalem, she made over 200 films, attracting a considerable following at the box office. Her best pictures while working under the Kalem banner were made with Marshall Neilan unit. Neilan wrote, directed and acted in many of these films, setting the foundation for his career in the 1920's as one of the better feature directors. Ruth's co-star in many comedies, and supporting actor in her dramatic offerings, was John E. Brennan, an early and popular Kalem comedian whose starring career would end very suddenly when Ruth graduated to serial stardom at Balboa. A fast-moving example of Ruth's early work, very little of which has been preserved, "The Sheriff of Stone Gulch" is also an excellent sample  of the one-reel western, a gendre in which Kalem was a leader during 1911-1914.
Regular 8mm / b&w /  silent (approximately 225-feet)  Blackhawk Films with historical introduction........$20.

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 SOILERS (1923) starring Stan Laurel
 Not available on film for many years now, this is one of Stan Laurel's best remembered movie spoofs from his solo career prior to teaming with Oliver Hardy. The classic western by Rex Beach, "The Spoilers" is lampooned to the hilt by Stan as he plays the corny hero in the mock-William S. Hart-style of overly dramatic fashion. His battle with villain James Finlayson is punctuated and interrupted regularly by a cowboy who's not quite regular! An obvious refugee of Humpback Mountain, he steals the gun Stan and Fin are fighting over and skips off merrily to shoot his load. The overblown fist fight takes on cartoon-like gags such as Stan twisting Fin's arm around like rubber! Great fun as a show-starter! Print is from Glenn Photo Supply in the late 1970's.
16mm   / b & w / silent / double perf stock./ approx 400-feet/ ......................(J.D.).........................$95.

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
Buster Keaton stars in what many consider to be among his top two or three comedy features. You all know the story and the great, spectacular gags in this film. The print is a Blackhawk release with a music score.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / complete feature release by Blackhawk............................................$55.

STEPPING ON THE GAS
starring Kenneth McDonald, Robert Littlefield, Jerome La Gasse, Harry Belmore, Clifford Cook, Milburn Morante, Clara Horton
Early days of pioneer automobile engines.
Regular 8mm / b&w /  silent (approximately 400-feet)  unknown source / Ex-LN shape.....................$15.

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.

TWO TARS (1928)
This may rank as the funniest silent era short comedy ever made, hands down!  Sailors Stan and Ollie are on shore leave. They pick up a couple of girls and rent a car for the day. Caught in a traffic jam, one bump here and one retaliation there leads to  the original "road rage" battle of all-time!
16mm Sound music scored / B & W  / approx. 800' / Wonderland dupe with music score...............(W. S.)...............$45

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.

THE UNSUSPECTING STRANGER
starring Leo Maloney in a Range Rider series episode from Malobee Productions. It was written and co-directed by Ford Beebe and Leo Maloney and photographed by Hal Mohr.
An unscrupulous rancher will do just about anything to cheat a prospective buyer in this two-reel Leo Maloney Western. The arid AP Ranch is up for sale and the owner, Dan Murdock  (Tom London), attempts to coerce his neighbor, Harding, into pretending that valuable WB creek belongs to the AP. When the honest Harding refuses to go along with the deceit, Murdock pulls a gun on him. To the rescue comes a stranger, John Green (Maloney), who just happens to be the prospective buyer. In revenge, Murdock accuses his elderly neighbor of cattle rustling. Plot synopsis courtesy of all movie.com and Hans J. Wollstein
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk Films release with historical introduction....approx 400' total................LN shape.....$15

THE UNWELCOME GUEST ( 1913) directed by D. W, Griffith
starring Mary Pickford
 The Unwelcome Guest is a film produced by American Biograph in 1913. It was subsequently reissued by Aywon, apparently sometime between 1918 and 1922, and the original crudely terse Biograph titles were replaced by the flowery, longer type of that later period so the film would not appear as dated. This Blackhawk Films release is of that later reissue.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk Films release with historical introduction....approx 400' total................LN shape.....$20

THE VAGABOND starring Charlie Chaplin
The Vagabond was released to theaters July 10, 1916 and was the third of Chaplin's twelve-film Mutual series. It is more drama, less outright comedy than any earlier
Chaplin film. Also appearing in the film is Edna Purviance as the gypsy girl,, Eric Campbell as the gypsy chief, and Charlotte Mineau as the gypsy mother. Charlie
plays a saloon violin player who befriends a gypsy girl.
16mm Sound music scored / B & W  / approx. 800' /complete 2-reeler by Blackhawk with Van Bueren music score / L. N. shape.........................$135

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WHY GIRLS SAY NO (1927) starring Max Davidson in a Roach/Pathe comedy.
Max Davidson's starring pilot film for Hal Roach (written by Stan Laurel and directed by Leo McCarey) with Spec O' Donnell, Creighton Hale, Oliver Hardy as a
policeman and a cameo by Noah Young. This Davidson short is filled with mildly politically incorrect humor, as Papa Whisselberg (Max) is dead set on his daughter
courting only "a Jewish boy" - leaving "Irisher" suitor, Creighton Hale, ethnically challenged. Great situation comedy which is not without its great sight gags
(Officer Ollie plunging into a deep mud hole, Max's exploding birthday cake, Noah's breakaway car). Long unseen until this material came to light. All original titles
and intertitles.
16mm / sil / B&W / "two reels" approx 800-feet............................Sp order.... (currently at) $220.

WOLFHEART'S AUTO-TRUCK RESCUE
In the tradition of Rin Tin Tin comes this digest clip in which Wolfheart saves an infant from traffic.
16mm / b & w /silent -double perf stock / Exclusive Movies "headliner" digest / L.N. shape./ orig box................$5

WONDERFUL WORLD OF HAROLD LLOYD
This is a specially produced introduction to students of Harold Lloyd with excerpts from  several of his best remembered comedies. From "Movie Crazy", the bicycle gag, From "The Kid Brother", the monkey sequence, from "For Heaven's Sake", the great street car chase. Next, an extract from "Speedy" with the cab fight gags. A couple of sequences from "Girl Shy" include the fantasy dream scenes with the girl "flappers" as Harold imagines himself to be the Casanova as well as the scene with Jobyna Ralston. This compilation concludes with the cop chase from "For Heaven's Sake"
16mm Sound     / b & w / music and narration (approx 900-feet) / Vg shape, few splices, titles gone but still a top quality print........$75.

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.