Letitia Fairbanks

Un enfant, dans le rue, dans sa voiture à pédales.

Robert Doisneau.
Le bolide (1956. Paris)

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Sarah Vaughan, BOTD in 1924

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Una O'Connor and Boris Karloff in The Shop at Sly Corner (1949), sketch by William Auerbach-Levy

It's all Happening at Franklin's Historical Museum in April Try Calligraphy, Explore Stunning Silent Films, Celebrate 50th Ladybug Anniversary, Surviving Epic Storms, How Genocide Gave Birth to Franklin's Armenian Community, and more...

Franklin, MA Historical Museum hosts month of silent film: Opening w/Douglas Fairbanks' 100 year old masterpiece, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD on April 6th, w/METROPOLIS (4/13), ANIMATION SHORTS (4/20) and RAVISHED ARMENIA (4/27) for Armenian Genocide Remembrance. franklinobserver.town.news/g/franklin-t...

I wish today’s showing of THE WIND was online with the other great offerings. It was truly great to see these films with live accompaniment. Thanks HippFest!

Still photo from 1918's STELLA MARIS, starring Mary Pickford in dual roles. On left is Pickford as character Unity Blake, a slight, plainly-dressed woman in dark colors with an austere look about her. On right is Pickford as title character, Stella Maris: wealthy, elegantly dressed with a fancy hat and coat.

#HippFest24 is screening 1918's STELLA MARIS, featuring Aunt Mary in dual roles: beautiful, privileged Stella Maris, and stunted, unattractive orphan Unity Blake. For online tkts: www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/sff...
Online ticket comes w/48 hours to screen movie, if you can't make it live.

The Rugged Island: A Shetland Lyric (HippFest Opening Night) Pioneering Glasgow-born filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson directs this poignant “story documentary” about crofting families in Shetland. Jenny’s husband-to-be plays Johnny: a young man torn between his duty to home and his love for Enga, with the promise of a new life in Australia. Hailed by John Grierson - father of the British documentary movement - as “one of the best descriptions of life in the country anybody has yet made”, this tender and beautiful dramatisation of Shetland life surpasses the bounds of both fiction and non-fiction filmmaking. HippFest is proud to present the world premiere of a new music commission by award-winning multi-instrumentalist and composer from Fair Isle: Inge Thomson, with Shetland-born Catriona MacDonald - considered one of the world's leading traditional fiddle players. *Content warning: this film contains some shots of dead animals* Dir. Jenny Gilbertson (née Brown) | UK | 1933 | N/C U |

Head's up in the UK! The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival will run Wednesday 20 to Sunday 24 March 2024 at the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo’ness, Falkirk, w/selected events will be *livestreamed from the cinema*. For more info, full HippFest 2024 programme & purchase tickets, pls visit www.hippfest.co.uk.

Lars Hanson, black and white photo. 1919. He is sittging down and wearing a suit, a white shirt, a bow tie, a vest with buttoms, matching trousers. He is holding a hat and gloves.

Lars Hanson (26 July 1886 – 8 April 1965) was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.

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#silentfilm #oldHollywood #cinema #film #movie

Composerism on Instagram: "Rare footage of Béla Bartók and Ernő Dohnányi together, taken from a silent film in the Reuters historical collection, used for fair use purposes. #composer #classicalmusic... 0 likes, 0 comments - composerism on February 10, 2024: "Rare footage of Béla Bartók and Ernő Dohnányi together, taken from a silent film in the Reute..."

Rare footage of Béla Bartók and Ernő Dohnányi together, taken from a silent film in the Reuters historical collection.

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#composer #classicalmusic

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE, EXCEPT BUSTOUR KEATON Friday, February 16 8:00 p.m. Douglas Fairbanks: The Mark of Zorro The first film version of the classic swashbuckler about a masked hero righting injustice in the early 19th century Spanish California. This was the first film released through United Artists, a company formed by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and Fairbanks. 1920 – 90 min. – Director Fred Niblo Guest Stars John Bengtson – Author, Historian, Preservationist Marc Wanamaker – Author, Historian, Preservationist Location: Newhall Family Theatre for the Performing Arts – 24607 Walnut Street, Santa Clarita, CA 91321

Folks in Santa Clarita, CA and San Fernando Valley, listen up! The Newhallywood Silent Film festival is headed your way - Feb 16-18, 2023. NewhallywoodFilmFest.org has the details. Showings of Doug Fairbanks' THIEF OF BAGDAD, ROBIN HOOD w/Wm.S.Hart's HELL'S HINGES & more! All FREE Admission.

Here comes the sun 2024 The northern solstice on 21/22 December is our chance to celebrate the start of our annual journey back from the darkness into the light

Merry Xmas&happy new year everyone. ‘Our ancestors& descendants also told&will tell Solstice stories rooted in a timeless narrative: the seasons of the earth, which binds generations&cultures together’ @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/cult...

Imagine how different our world would be if people defined their legacy as planting seeds they will never see the growth from. If everyone tried to plant the best seeds they possibly could w/o worrying abt receiving material wealth immediately, the world would be so much more healthy in all respects

Perfect.

An ad for some bullshit about AI art, the title is "Embrace AI. Fly Icarus, fly!"

uhh hey so how did that whole flying thing work out for Icarus

A young Sammy Davis (billed without “Jr.”) in a 1933 Vitaphone short, “Seasoned Greetings.”

Surprised me, too.

@ralphkeen.bsky.social you and May might get a kick out of this.

I'll let you tell us if you consider the legal reasoning to be sound, but I thought the idea of discussing the character of Zorro in a legal Order, including mentioning Fairbanks' 1920 portrayal of Zorro, to be an unexpected tribute!

Woman with two children on the street the kids are looking intently at a little building with big signs saying taste Feliz theater and their pictures of the Performing fleas on the Marquee

Flea Circus, Paris, 1950 — Robert Doisneau

@conradbarrington.bsky.social OMG! Check out Order from IL District Federal Judge in Zorro Productions, Inc. v. Individuals, Corporations, et al. It's priceless! I believe Uncle Douglas would have loved that his portrayal of fictional Zorro is used to render legal opinions reason.com/volokh/2023/...

It's been crazy busy but I'm now ready to enjoy a quiet Christmas with Pollie (a 3 month old Labrador-cross puppy I adopted) and my two twin cats, Robert & Douglas, named for my father & uncle, since the two brother kitties are as inseparable as my Uncle Douglas was from my Dad, Robert Fairbanks. 🎄🤶

Agreed. He’s a psychopath that with a vague conscience hurts people who don’t look like him: white, male, privileged.

"She's a first-class craftswoman...but instead of being dull and perfect, she's absolutely enchanting and perfect."
—Douglas Fairbanks Jr. on Kentucky belle Irene Dunne, #BornThisDay in Louisville in 1898. She was equally adept in women's pictures and comedies.

Thanks for keeping silent film alive! 🎥🎬🎞️

You’ve never read The Outsiders? I think I found it when I (speaking as Kelley, Letitia’s niece) found it in ~1972-23 when it was first published. I was in JHS and rapt with attention at the riveting and true stories of what it was like to be ‘out’ of the ‘in’ crowd in any HS.

A cat can be seen. He has at least two colors, which aren't too clearly visible because the photo is black and white.

A cat has his mouth open. His whiskers are visible. We can see part of his tongue and teeth.

Two white cats are on the floor. One of them has his uppwer paws on something that isn't clearly visible in this photo.

Some cats are on the floor. They are under a wooden surface.

The Private Life of a Cat (USA, 1946)

Director: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren

#classicfilm #film #cinema

1943, black and white picture. It shows Deren looking out of a window. Her hands are on the glass. She is wearing some make up and her straight hair is only partially visible.

Maya Deren (May 12 1917 – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (then part of the Russian Empire, now independent Ukraine) American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.

#cinema #classicfilm

One of the greatest photos in Jazz history.

Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, and Charlie Parker - at The Open Door, Greenwich Village in 1953.

Women everywhere warned Very Serious Male Journalists and Pundits about this and got laughed out of the room and then fired

Bringing back this Discworld quote for no particular reason