From: lenona321@yahoo.com   
      
   Blum died in 1965. I have his 1958 B&W book of the Talkies; there were at   
   least two updated editions of that one, after his death - I think the last one   
   was in 1982.   Anyway, I'd say the book of silent films is worthwhile too, if   
   only to whet your    
   appetite for those films that MAY not be lost by now. (Mind you, both books   
   consist mostly of photos.)   
      
   APHOTSS goes back as far as 1908, but pages 7-9, with text, have a few earlier   
   photos from Thomas Edison's movies, plus one from Melies' "A Trip to the Moon"   
   (1902), and a few others. The text also quoted the press release for the 1907   
   Kalem version of "   
   Ben Hur." (No stills, sadly.)   
      
   There are almost ten pages in the index, with tiny print. However, that   
   includes people's names, not just film titles. (There are 324 pages before the   
   index.) Ernst Lubitsch gets mentioned 12 times.   
      
   Here are some movies with still photos you can see in the book:   
      
   Alice in Wonderland   
   Anna Christie   
   Battling Butler   
   Camille   
   Cinderella   
   Cleopatra   
   Dante's Inferno   
   Don Juan   
   The Enchanted Cottage   
   Faust   
   Forbidden Paradise   
   Go West   
   The Great Gatsby   
   Hamlet (1915, plus the 1920 version, which is German - and Hamlet is a   
   princess!)   
   Hiawatha   
   Irene   
   Ivanhoe   
   Jane Eyre   
   Last of the Mohicans    
   Little Lord Fauntleroy   
   The Little Princess   
   Little Women   
   Madame Butterfly   
   Peter Pan   
   Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm   
   Romeo and Juliet   
   Salome   
   Sappho   
   The Scarlet Letter      
   Sherlock, Jr.      
   Smilin' Through     
   Stella Dallas   
   Tabu    
   Tarzan of the Apes     
   Tess of the D'Ubervilles    
   Tess of the Storm Country   
   Trilby        
   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea     
   Uncle Tom's Cabin    
   Vanity Fair    
   The Virgin Queen   
   The White Rose   
   The Wizard of Oz (1910 & 1924)   
   A Woman of Affairs   
   The Wood Nymph   
      
      
   Here are some that were NOT included, incredibly (I've seen 9 of them):   
      
   Babbitt    
   The Babes in the Woods    
   Becket   
   The Birds' Christmas Carol   
   The Cameraman    
   Casanova   
   The Iron Mask    
   La Belle Dame Sans Merci   
   Lady of the Lake    
   Lady Windermere's Fan   
   Lord Jim   
   The Magic Cloak of Oz   
   Master of the House   
   The Patchwork Girl of Oz   
   Peter the Great   
   The Rainbow   
   Rasputin (1929)   
   The Sea Waif   
   The Secret Garden   
   Seven Chances   
   The Sheik of Araby   
   The Silent Enemy   
   Silk Stockings   
   The Snow Maiden   
   The Snow Bride   
   The Spider and the Fly   
   Sweeney Todd   
   Ten Days That Shook the World   
   Tom Jones   
   William Tell   
      
      
   Lenona.   
      
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