With Stanley in Africa -- January 30, 2022

Moving Picture Weekly, 28-January-1922

With Stanley in Africa was a Universal serial, which starred actor and athlete George Walsh, Raoul Walsh's brother. Walsh played British-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley who is best known for searching central Africa for missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from in six years. Note that the cover of this Universal publication calls it a "Universal Continued Feature" rather than as a serial. The film is probably lost.

Moving Picture Weekly, 21-January-1922

This ad calls the film a "chapter play," a common synonym for "serial." 

Moving Picture Weekly, 14-January-1922

Wear your wart-hog button and get in for free. 

Moving Picture Weekly, 14-January-1922

"Another Golden Universal Discovery." Please excuse the racist images. 

Moving Picture Weekly, 14-January-1922

"Carl Laemmle Presents George Walsh/Famous Athlete and Motion Feature Star in His First Appearance in Any Serial or Continued Feature..."

Exhibitors Herald, 07-January-1922

Ruth Roland, who was born in San Francisco, was one of the great Serial Queens. "She fights, she loves, she kisses, she thrills..."

Motion Picture News, 28-January-1922

Moving Picture Weekly, 14-February-1922

Eddie Polo was a popular serial star. He started out as a trapeze artist in a circus. He appeared in many serials in the US and then went to Germany, where he starred in action films. He later worked as a makeup artist. I like the image of Polo diving through the "4" in The Secret 4.

Moving Picture Weekly, 21-January-1922

"Universal's Cyclonic Chapter-Play."

Motion Picture News, 28-January-1922

It looks as if Polo was leaving or planning to leave Universal. 

Motion Picture News, 07-January-1922

Elinor Field played the Jungle Goddess in Selig's serial of the same name. "The Mightiest Animal-Jungle Chapter-Picture Ever Produced"

Exhibitors Herald, 28-January-1922

It looks as if poor Elinor Field is in a sticky situation. 

Motion Picture News, 14-January-1922

TOM MIX -- The Only Money Maker In Xistence -- May 15, 2019

Moving Picture World, 17-May-1919

100 years ago this month, Tom Mix was starring in Fox's The Coming of the Law.

Moving Picture World, 10-May-1919

Tom played a crusading newspaper editor in the west.  This could often be a dangerous profession.

Moving Picture World, 10-May-1919

Editor Tom discusses a reader's concerns.  George Walsh was the younger brother of director Raoul Walsh.

Moving Picture World, 03-May-1919

"Take Back Your Hardware, Steve; I Ordered Bric-a-Brac."  I have no idea what the last clause means.

Moving Picture World, 10-May-1919

I'm guessing this company was rereleasing Tom's old movies for Selig.

Moving Picture World, 10-May-1919

Fred LeRoy Granville was a cinematographer and director for some of Tom's movies.  He photographed The Coming of the Law.

Tom Mix, Off the Range/On the Range -- February 21, 2019

Motion Picture News, 22-February-1919

100 years ago this month, Tom Mix was standing on his horse, "Watching for Outlaws" and sitting with a donkey and his leading lady in Hell-Roarin' Reform, Kathleen O'Connor. "Love me, love my donkey."

Moving Picture World, 15-February-1919

Tom Mix appears in city clothes and western clothes in this ad.

Moving Picture World, 15-February-1919

Tom Mix in a scene from Hell-Roarin' Reform and George Walsh in a sene from "Luck and Pluck."  Walsh was the brother of actor/director Raoul Walsh.  

Grauman's Chinese -- Raoul Walsh -- September 22, 2015

Raoul Walsh started out as an actor who also directed. He played John Wilkes Booth in DW Griffith's Birth of the Nation and the Marine in his own Sadie Thompson, opposite Gloria Swanson. After an auto accident in which a rabbit hit his windshield, he lost an eye and gave up acting. He was to have played the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona.  Warner Baxter got the part in the early talkie western.  Walsh went on to direct many talkies, including The Roaring Twenties, High Sierra, and White Heat.

He left hand, foot, and eye patch prints in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese on 14-November-1930. DSCN4141. I took this on 18-July-2009.

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Villa is Getting More Famous Every Day! -- July 15, 2014

Moving Picture World, 18-July-1914

Pancho Villa was a general during the Mexican Revolution.  In 1916 Villa and his troops raided Columbus, New Mexico.  The US Army spent nine months trying to catch him, but never succeeded. 

Before that, Villa had been popular with many in the United States.  The Mutual Film Corporation released The Life of General Villa, a movie that combined documentary footage with reenactments of General Villa's life.  DW Griffth produced from a distance.  Christy Cabanne directed.  Future director Raoul Walsh played Villa as a young man.  Villa received a nice chunk of American money to finance his fight against General Victoriano Huerta, who had staged a military coup, deposing and murdering President Francisco Madero. 

The movie was a success, but is probably lost. 

Moving Picture World, 04-July-1914

"Villa is getting more famous every day!"  "The Mexican War Pictures -- the only authentic ones actually taken under fire -- are in seven full reels, filled with thrilling, throbbing excitement from start to finish." 

In 2003, HBO made a movie about the production of this movie, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself.  Antonio Banderas played General Villa. 

Moving Picture World, 20-June-1914