Movie Ushers (Vanity Fair, 1916)A word on movie ushers and those darn flash lights...
A Glossary for Movie Fans ()During the summer of 1920, "Photplay Magazine" ran this glossary of movie terms with cartoons by Ralph Barton and doggerel verses by Howard Dietz.
With new technology came new terms that seemed odd to the ear (it should be remembered that this new technology did not involve the use of one's ear at all); words to be added to the nation's vocabulary were "fade-out", "shooting", "box-office" and "location".
"To "shoot" a scene is nothing new-
Directors should be shot at, too"
Typical American Films... (Vanity Fair, 1916)The Conde Nast cartoonist Ann Fish wanted her swank readers to know that she was another Brit who recognized the reoccurring formula that young Hollywood relied on all too often and even though the film business was still in it's infancy, there was such a thing as "a typical American movie".
Silent Movie Caricatures (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1921)"When the Five O'Clock Whistle Blows in Hollywood" is attached;
it appeared in VANITY FAIR eight years after Hollywood was declared the film capital of the world.
This single page cartoon was created by one of the great American caricaturists of the Twenties: Ralph Barton, and all the kingpins of the young empire are depicted (among others): Douglas Fairbanks, Marry Pickford, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Bill Hart, Wallace Reed, Gloria Swanson, Nazimova, Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Fatty Arbuckle and the writer Rupert Hughes.
Lording above them all, and represented simply by jodhpurs and riding boots, stands the founder of the feast - Cecil B. DeMille (and his brother).
*Watch a Color Cartoon from 1938 Filled With Hollywood Caricatures *
An Unhealthy Obsession with Hollywood Fan Magazines (Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)Attached is a single page cartoon from 1916 that illustrated quite clearly that the relationship between movie fans and their film star magazines have not changed at all during the past ninety years.
The Scenario Formula Exposed (Photplay Magazine, 1920)RalRaph Barton and Howard Dietz
put together this nifty six-panel comic strip in order to ridicule the Hollywood film industry and expose that crowd to be the tiresome dullards that they were (they've since reformed) and they also had the odd vision that the gag would be posted on a web page some eighty-six years in the future.
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