The World's Largest Public Domain Media Search Engine
If you expect to rate as a gentleman, you will not expectorate on the floor

If you expect to rate as a gentleman, you will not expectorate on the floor

description

Summary

Paper print made from lantern slide used as announcemenet in motion picture theaters. Text appears with a border design.
"No. B 17."
Copyright claimant: Electro Mechanical Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

Movie posters and movie theaters.

The height of the silent movie era (the 1910s-1920s) was a period of artistic innovation. Silent film stars had to use their faces to express every emotion — a skill that was lost on most actors when talkies replaced silent movies. Several silent stars including Wallace Beery, Shearer, Laurel and Hardy, Greta Garbo, and Janet Gaynor made a successful transition to talkies.

The popularity of “moving pictures” grew in the 1920s. Movie "palaces" sprang up in all major cities. For a quarter or 25 cents, Americans escaped their problems and lose themselves in another era or world. People of all ages attended the movies with far more regularity than today, often going more than once per week. By the end of the decade, weekly movie attendance swelled to 90 million people. The silent movies gave rise to the first generation of movie stars. At the end of the decade, the dominance of silent movies began to wane with the advance of sound technology.

date_range

Date

01/01/1907
create

Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on publication.

Explore more

etiquette
etiquette