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Photo by First National Pictures
First National Pictures was an American film production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theatre owners in the...
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Madge Bellamy
Madge Bellamy (1899-1990) was a beautiful and temperamental leading lady of the silent era, known for such classics as John Ford's first Western The Iron Horse (1924). She appeared in about fifty...
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Norma Talmadge
Norma Talmadge (1894-1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked...
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Victor Mature
Hunky American leading man Victor Mature (1913-1999) starred in Biblical Epics like Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Robe (1953). He was known for his dark good looks and mega-watt smile. Mature also...
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William Haines
William 'Billy' Haines (1900–1973) was an American film actor and interior designer. By the end of the silent era he was regularly named as the no. 1 male box-office draw of Hollywood. His career was...
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Italian Silent Cinema: A Dive into the Collection of Ivo Blom
Today starts a two-day workshop at EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam for international researchers and people from the archives, a workshop on the Italian Silent Cinema. The participants will take a dive...
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The Big Parade (1925)
The melodramatic romance and World War I epic The Big Parade (1925) is one of MGM's all-time biggest hits and one of the classics of the silent film era. John Gilbert plays a young American soldier,...
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Photo by Fox Film
During the silent era, Fox Film Corporation was a multimillion-dollar empire controlling a large portion of the exhibition, distribution, and production of film facilities. Fox Film was founded in 1915...
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What Carla Bosch found in the attic
Some time ago our friend, collector Carla Bosch, decided to undertake an expedition to her attic and to inspect some boxes. Carla: "In one of those boxes I found 16 cards I forgot all about. I cannot...
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The Black Pirate (1926)
The Black Pirate (Albert Parker, 1926) is a silent pirate adventure on the Southern seas, full of impressive stunts and shot entirely in two-tone Technicolor. Douglas Fairbanks stars as the son of a...
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Merry Christmas!
As every year: Gelukkig kerstfeest! Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël! Buon Natale! Sretan Božić! Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Boldog karácsonyt! Gleðileg jól! Nollaig Shona! Priecīgus...
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From the collection of Marlene Pilaete: Female stars advertising products
Today at EFSP, a post by Marlene Pilaete of La Collectionneuse with a selection of postcards from her own collection. Marlene: "When Paul asked me to do a guest post at EFSP, we agreed to choose the...
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La Bohème (1926)
In 1925, Lillian Gish moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after 13 years working with director David Wark Griffith on such classics as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Broken Blossoms (1919), and Orphans of the...
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The Choice of Daniël van der Aa
Today the last guest post of 2018. We invited the young collector Daniël van der Aa from Rotterdam to share his choice of favourite postcards with us. And he choose to show the complete card: both the...
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Photo by 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox (also Twentieth Century Fox or simply Fox) was one of the ‘Big Six’ major American film studios (with Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal, Columbia, and Disney). In 1935, it was formed...
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Abie's Irish Rose (1928)
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Nancy Carroll are the adorable stars of the American comedy drama Abie's Irish Rose (Victor Fleming, 1928). The Paramount production was based on a popular Broadway play....
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Stars Who Passed Away in 2018
On the last day of the year, EFSP remembers thirteen stars of the international cinema we had to say goodbye to in 2018. Thank you, for your films.7 January: France Gall (1947-2018)French postcard by...
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Batman (1966)
All the best for 2019! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar, as we say in Dutch. This first week of the new year we'll post only film specials. 53 years ago, at the beginning of 1966, everything turned Batman. The...
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) is eighty years after its release still one of the most brilliant and captivating Hollywood films. It's a grand epic, more than four hours long, about the...
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The American anti-war-epic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was based on the novel Im Westen nichts neues by Erich Maria Remarque. It is a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War...
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