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The Gaucho (1927)
The silent American classic The Gaucho (F. Richard Jones, 1927) starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez was one of Fairbanks' innovating action films that established the standard for all future...
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The Pictures Portrait Gallery: the Women
Last Saturday, EFSP did a post on the British postcard series, the Pictures Portrait Gallery. During the late 1910s and early 1920s, Pictures Ltd. in London published the series as a supplement for...
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Mother's Day
Today EFSP honours the mother in the cinema. On Mother's Day, we celebrate motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society with a selection of postcards from the collections of Ivo...
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Frederik Buch
Frederik Buch (1875-1925) was a Danish actor and screenwriter who appeared in over 100 films. He was an extremely popular comedian of Danish and later also German cinema of the silent era.German...
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Il pastor fido (1918)
The Italian silent film Il pastor fido/The Faithful Shepherd (Telemaco Ruggeri, 1918) is an Arcadian tragicomedy among the descendants of Hercules and Pan. Two young people of divine descent have to...
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Michael Jackson
'The King of Pop'Michael Jackson (1958-2009) entertained audiences nearly his entire life. He started very young in the Jackson 5 and solo he recorded the biggest-selling album of all time, 'Thriller'...
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Hermann Vallentin
Hermann Vallentin (1872-1945) was a German actor and singer. He joined the film business in 1914 as an established stage actor and became also very popular on the screen during the 1920s. The rise of...
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Ewald Balser
In November 2020 the Hamburg Cinefest festival 'Kino, Krieg und Tulpen', co-organised by EFSP collaborator Ivo Blom, could not happen onsite at the festival venue, Metropolis Kino. Instead, we showed...
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Cinema Chat
Cinema Chat was a British Magazine, published by Shureys Publications. The first issue was published on 26 May 1919. In each issue, a postcard was included. The Cinema chat postcards are sometimes...
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
With his second film, Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino consolidated his position as Hollywood's New Child Prodigy. Thanks to the phenomenal success of his debut film Reservoir Dogs (1992),...
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Kurt Wolowsky
German actor Kurt Wolowsky (1897-1985) aka Curt Wolowsky, Kurt Wolowski, or Kurt von Wolowski, mainly acted in German silent cinema. One of his first films, Hoffmanns Erzählungen/Tales of Hoffmann...
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Vem Dömer (1922)
The Swedish silent film Vem dömer/Love's Crucible (1922) was a Skandia Film production directed by the great Viktor Sjöström. The film is a Renaissance drama where a young woman named Ursula (Jenny...
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Arcade cowboys
Last year, we did a post on Arcade cards. These picture cards were issued from penny arcade vending machines located on seaside boardwalks of North America. The Arcade cards were manufactured by the...
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Tony Curtis
American film actor Tony Curtis (1925-2010) played a variety of roles, from light comedy, such as the musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959), to serious dramatic...
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Shirley MacLaine
American actress Shirley MacLaine (1934) is among Hollywood's most unique stars. With her auburn hair cut impishly short, she made her film debut in Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble With Harry...
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Another Five Filmshots by Film Weekly
The Filmshots cards were produced as a supplement for the British magazine Film Weekly. This is our fourth post on the series. We can't get enough of them because each series presents four rare stills...
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The Hangover (2009)
The Hangover (2009) is an American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, co-produced with Daniel Goldberg, and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. It is the first installment in The Hangover...
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Ben Lyon
Ben Lyon (1901-1979) was an American stage, film, radio, and TV performer, as well as a studio manager. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lyon was an average boyish, easy-going, highly appealing...
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Carlos und Elisabeth (1924)
The story of the German silent historical drama Carlos und Elisabeth/Carlos and Elisabeth (Richard Oswald, 1924) is based on 'Don Carlos', the play by Friedrich Schiller and the opera by Giuseppe...
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Fredric March
Fredric March (1897-1975) played for a few years in stock, and, when talkies came in 1928, he was offered a part in The Dummy (Robert Milton, 1929). His performances grew steadily in dramatic appeal,...
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