WHAT A PLEASANT little surprise and a reaffirmation of the old adage that "Good Things come in Small Packages!" It was quite by chanced hat we stumbled across this on Turner Classic Movies this past weekend.
AS BRIEF AS was the screen running time, it is just as brilliant. To our shame, we hadn't ever heard of Carter Dehaven.
SHAME ON US!! We assure you that we do now; as do so many of our cinematic constituents! THOSE UNCREDITED GUEST appearances by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Rudolph Valentino were an example of a throwback to the very earliest days of film.
THE "MAGICAL" USE of the camera's lens by transforming Mr. Dehaven, right before our eyes, into all of those celebs of Screendom. The technique and resulting "transformations" certainly are identical to those employed by Georges Melies two decades or so earlier.
THE ORIGIN OF this short as a private party gift to Douglas Fairbanks and wife, Mary Pickford, is certainly an example of the opulence that was Hollywood in the 1920s. But in the later decision to release this commercially rendered this a huge chunk of amazement to be shared by all!
THANKS YOU SO much, Mr. Dehaven!!
AS BRIEF AS was the screen running time, it is just as brilliant. To our shame, we hadn't ever heard of Carter Dehaven.
SHAME ON US!! We assure you that we do now; as do so many of our cinematic constituents! THOSE UNCREDITED GUEST appearances by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Rudolph Valentino were an example of a throwback to the very earliest days of film.
THE "MAGICAL" USE of the camera's lens by transforming Mr. Dehaven, right before our eyes, into all of those celebs of Screendom. The technique and resulting "transformations" certainly are identical to those employed by Georges Melies two decades or so earlier.
THE ORIGIN OF this short as a private party gift to Douglas Fairbanks and wife, Mary Pickford, is certainly an example of the opulence that was Hollywood in the 1920s. But in the later decision to release this commercially rendered this a huge chunk of amazement to be shared by all!
THANKS YOU SO much, Mr. Dehaven!!