Bill Hart is Back! -- May 8, 2024

Exhibitors Herald, 03-May-1924

Paramount asked exhibitors to "Play BIG Spring Pictures!" They starred Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri and William S Hart. 

Exhibitors Herald, 03-May-1924

In a detail from the ad above, we see that this part of the item promotes Hart's movie Wild Bill Hickok. 

The Autobiography of Harold Lloyd -- May 7, 2024

Photoplay, May, 1924

One day I may post "The Autobiography of Harold Lloyd."

Photoplay, May, 1924

Here we see a studio scene taken during the production of Harold Lloyd's feature film Girl Shy, and a still from the film.

Exhibitors Herald, 03-May-1924

Harold Lloyd poses with his production team after they wrapped Girl Shy. 

Film Daily, 04-May-1924

Girl Shy played at New York's Strand Theater "for three consecutive weeks!"

Film Daily, 09-May-1924

"Records! Records! Records!" Girl Shy "breaks all records for gross and attendance" at several theaters including San Francisco's Warfield. 

Film Daily, 29-May-1924

Pathé provided music cue sheets to theaters that showed Girl Shy. 

Frankie Darro -- May 6, 2024

Photoplay, May, 1924

Half-a-Dollar-Bill was Frankie Darro's second movie. He was six and this was his second film. Cameo the Dog made about 20 films during her career. Frankie Darro appeared in about 190 movies and television shows. He was short of stature and played children and teenagers for many years.

He served in the Navy as a hospital corpsman during World War Two. 

We will meet him again. 

El Muchacho Alegre -- May 5, 2024

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone. I borrowed the Luis Aguilar poster from the wonderful blog If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats (http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/).

Jack Fuld Wants a Job -- May 4, 2024

Film Daily, 26-May-1924

"Jack Fuld Wants a Job."

Lubin's Marvel -- May 3, 2024

New York Clipper, 01-February-1908

The Lubin Manufacturing Company was a pioneering film production company founded in 1902 in Philadelphia by Siegmund Lubin. Lubin later produced movies in Jacksonville, Florida and Los Angeles, California. I did not know that they also built and sold projectors like Lubin's Marvel the Cineograph.

Motography, 01-August-1914

Semon Reissues Through Vitagraph -- May 2, 2024

Exhibitors Herald, 24-May-1924

Despite or because of the recent divorce, Vitagraph put some time and money in to rereleasing ten of Larry Semon's one-reelers. They made new prints with new subtitles and issued new posters and a "special press sheet." We see above that all the titles were from the period when alliteration was popular.

Film Daily, 07-May-1924