A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
00028
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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14 BIRTH AND INFANCY The "girl" in the Baggott poster is Florence Lawrence (the famous "Biograph Girl"), whom IMP had captured from Biograph. Having played leads for Vitagraph, she then joined Biograph and became tremendously successful, particularly as a stunt actress. Here she is in a rather less strenuous, if equally exciting, mood. In 1909, Winsor McCay, cartoonist for the New York American, exhibited a drawn motion picture he had made— Gertie the Dinosaur. Ten thousand drawings comprised the picture. Gertie was the first animated cartoon of any consequence and she was seldom surpassed until Walt Disney came upon the screen twenty years afterward.