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Barbara von Annenkoff
Russian born actress Barbara von Annenkoff (1900-1978) appeared as an elegant lady in German silent films of the 1920s. Only in 1935, she made her sound film debut, and she was never able to gain a...
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Disney by Tobler, Part 1
December is Disney month at EFSP! Last year, we had posts with vintage postcards of several, wonderful classic features by the Walt Disney studio. This year we will update some of these posts and we'll...
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Disney by Tobler, Part 2
The Tobler postcard series with Disney characters was published in the mid-1950s, and Part 2 ends with Lady and the Tramp (1955). The Tobler company was created by Emil Baumann and Theodor Tobler...
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Directed by François Truffaut
François Truffaut (1932-1984) was one of the most popular and successful French filmmakers ever. The French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic was one of the founders of the...
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Dumbo (1941)
It's Disney December at EFSP. Dumbo (1941) was Walt Disney's fourth animated feature and it's a masterpiece. Dumbo deals with discrimination, self-esteem, the importance of family, and friendship. For...
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French mini posters with the rooster
During the first years of the Second World War, the Pathé-Cinéma, Pathé theatre chain in France published a series of sepia postcards in the form of mini-posters for collectors. The series with the...
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The Three Caballeros (1944)
The Three Caballeros (Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, 1944) is an American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It...
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Joan Bennett
Joan Bennett (1910–1990) was an American actress who had her breakthrough in Little Women (George Cukor, 1933). Producer Walter Wanger helped to manage her career and eventually married her in 1940. At...
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Cinderella (1950)
It's Disney December at EFSP and we update some of our film specials on Disney classics. Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1950), produced by Walt Disney but originally...
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Edith Johnson
Edith Johnson (1894-1969) was an American actress of the silent era. As 'The Kodak Girl', her face appeared in virtually all of the newspapers and magazines of the day. She and husband William Duncan...
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Directed by Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (1894-1979) was one of the major French film directors before WW II. His films La Grande Illusion/The Great Illusion (1937) and La Règle du Jeu/The Rules of the Game (1939) belong to the...
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Peter Pan (1953)
It's Disney December at EFSP, and today we have the 14th animated feature film from the Disney canon, Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1953). The film was based on the 1904...
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Arcade cards
Arcade cards were American picture cards that were issued from penny arcade vending machines. The cards were manufactured by the Exhibit Supply Company of Chicago. The cards were called arcade cards...
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Lady and the Tramp (1955)
In Disney December at EFSP, we present Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1955). Walt Disney's animation classic tells the romantic tale of a pampered uptown cocker...
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Rod La Rocque
Rod La Rocque (1898-1969) was an American film actor between the 1910s and the 1930s. He had his breakthrough in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923). In 1927, he married Hungarian-born...
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
In Disney December at EFSP, the 17th animated feature film of the Disney Canon. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, 1961), often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is based on...
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Gerald Ames
Gerald Ames (1880-1933) was a British actor, film director, and Olympic fencer. In the post-First World War cinema, he was a popular leading man in the silent British cinema. Between 1914 and 1928,...
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Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925),...
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The Sword in the Stone (1963)
The 18th Disney animated feature film, The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1963) is a take on King Arthur's legend, scripted by Bill Peet. It was the final animation feature to be released...
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Dracula (1992)
Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) or Bram Stoker's Dracula is an American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars...
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