Printed 108 years ago today in The Pensacola Journal.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
What sort of movie would Everett True be watching in 1916?
Great question! Wikipedia has the answer. Charlie Chaplin was in his prime. D.W. Griffith put out “Intolerance”, which I’ve read about but never seen. Several Cecil B. DeMille movies. And, of course, Everett True had one of his shorts.
Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks woulda been the big names at the time; D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance came out about three weeks prior and was cleaning up pretty well at the 1916 equivalent of the box office
D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance
I looked it up and wow, I didn’t realize that movies were already so big in 1916.
That was pretty much the year movies became that big; Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, released the previous year, more or less revolutionized the filmmaking process and near-singlehandedly codified long-form cinema as we know it today. Of course it also made the KKK the good guys, so, you know, some aspects coulda been better.
