Wid's Filmdom (1921)

VAAN WW WW RAERARARVBWWVWVWW A eS CS ~ SO ‘ SALVA VAI PAVA AS _ LAMA RELA AVSVA DNA AT AANWvnAAWWwWWWWY 9». : OODLE ALLOA LLL IDLE OLLI MMOLE LLLP LOUL LALLA A lela bbt tt CMO ALLL lili bt tbEe MALL CMO PD OL LOLLOORLALLLRALLMLLOOMLLLOLL CORPORATION Announcing Our First 18 Productions While 1,500 delegates in convention and several thousand exhibitors at home have been fighting the battle of screen independence, the F. B. Warren Corporation has organized itselt into the largest independent distributing company in the industry and procured for exhibitors the powerful producers and productions that make independent theatres possible. We take pride in announcing the first highly successful producers who have chosen our distribution as their agency of contact with the exhibitors of the world. We now announce: REGINALD BARKER PRODUCTIONS: Four of them. One of the industry’s ablest and greatest directors. A man of vision, power, refinement and dramatic intelligence. His power and skillare freshly demonstrated in ‘The Old Nest,” just launched by Goldwyn as its greatest picture of the year. A wonderful picture! Mr. Barker will make even bigger productions to be released through our company, with his first release in October. LOIS WEBER PRODUCTIONS: Four of them. This brilliant, able woman was making ictures that grossed upwards of $500,000 each fins years ago when no pictures except “The Birth of a Nation,” “Quo Vadis” and “Cabiria” were grossing half of that amount. She has now set out to excel everything she has done before. Her production, “The Blot” is our first release on September 4. VICTOR SCHERTZINGER PRODUCTIONS: Four of them. Remember “His Mother’s Boy,” “String Beans,” “Nine O’clock Town,” “Mr. Barnes of New York,” “The Hired Man” and a score of other human pictures? He made them and in addition wrote several of the stories. It was pictures like these added to the splendid Charles Ray personality that eatablishied Ray’s deserved success. Our first Schertzinger release, “Prosperity?” is set for September 25. INTERNATIONAL BIG 4: One great production from each of four European countries —Norway, France, Italy and perhaps England. Each a production that will gross upwards of $300,000. Our first release is Charles Dickens’ “Our Mutual Friend,” in early October. Produced by Nordisk Films of Copenhagen. QUO VADIS. We have been selected by George Kleine and associates to distribute the revival of this tremendous Cines production, completely re-edited by one of the greatest of American screen dramatists. This production was the first picture ever played in America at advanced prices, and in 1914 ran twentytwo weeks at the Astor Theatre, New York. GOOD AND EVIL. A magnificent panoramadrama starring beautiful Lucy Doraine. duced by Sascha Films in Prague, Bohemia. A cast of 10,000 persons in a picture greater in magnitude than “Passion” or “Deception”; a modern society drama; rich, opulent, colorful and clean. Retensed in September. MOONGOLD. The most successful shortlength feature ever made in America. A Will Bradley production that is just finishing a five weeks run in the three Famous Players-Lasky Theatres in New York. This one announcement embraces eighteen smashing big, feature-length productions and one established short-subject success. We have closed other producers who will be announced in a few days at the expiration of their present contracts. , We will release a minimum of 30 big productions in our first year; one release each week from September to June, starting Sunday, September 4. We also will release other short-reel attractions on regular weekly schedule. 500 big theatres in the United States are laying our attractions September 4 for NDEPENDENCE WEEK. F.B WARREN 1540 Broadway New York City Pro LAO TANNA AN TA TT 3 AN SEMEN WV RAIA LW ¥ WW