New York
Morning Telegraph
1921 |
Hollywood in the Silent Film Era
from a weekly column in the
New York Morning Telegraph
1914 / 1915 / 1916 / 1917 / 1918
1919 / 1920 / 1921 / 1922
During the silent film era, the New York Morning Telegraph had more coverage of the film industry than any other daily New York newspaper; its coverage included a weekly column of movie news from Los Angeles, initially titled “Pacific Coast News.” As the film industry in Hollywood expanded, that column also grew in size. Many of the “news items” came directly from publicity agents, but they still provide a useful historic glimpse into Hollywood’s growing silent film industry. Major Hollywood news stories would have been given separate articles instead of a mention inside this column. The columnists of “Pacific Coast News” included Edward V. Durling, Clem Pope, Margaret Ettinger and Frances Agnew. During the 1980s, when I was seeking information on the film career of William Desmond Taylor, I cast my research net through a good number of newspapers, fan magazines, and movie trade publications. Since Taylor was directing in Southern California, I was surprised to find so many items on Taylor in the New York Morning Telegraph, which I had examined on microfilm obtained through interlibrary loan. Those columns of “Pacific Coast News” had so much information, and were so useful to me, that I photocopied them for future silent film references. Now, instead of just gathering dust in my garage, I have scanned those 1914-1922 “Pacific Coast News” columns for the web, so that anyone who is interested in silent film history will have access to the material. I did not photocopy the columns beyond February 1922, and the column was occasionally missing from the microfilm source material. Obviously, this material would be more useful if it were turned into word-searchable text instead of images. With the increasing availability of large amounts of free web space such as the Internet Archive, all available contemporary publications on silent film should be scanned and made freely available online, and I encourage people with copies of other contemporary silent film material to do so. In any event, I hope some of you will find useful information in these columns from the New York Morning Telegraph.
— Bruce Long
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27 February 1921
6 March 1921
13 March 1921
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27 March 1921
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10 April 1921
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1 May 1921
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3 July 1921
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7 August 1921
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2 October 1921
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6 November 1921
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