As a collector of silent movie artifacts and an auto historian this the movie that lit the spark of the car hobby in Los Angles which resulted in the formation of the Horseless Carriage club in 1937. There were five cars that stared in the movie, appeared in the August 1927 Warner Brothers entry in the "Old Settlers Parade". The car that looses against the horse is a 1904 Stevens Duryea Stanhope. (I am the cars custodian) The car in which the dog is on the passenger lap and the car the which the dad reluctantly gets in is a 1908 Tourist K8 I have owned for 23 years) The car which William Demorest drives is a 1904 White rear entrance and is in the Netherlands. There is a 1904 Curved dashed Olds, a 1910 Duryea Buggat, a 1908 REO model G, a 1906 Cadillac, the car which Squire Stebbens crashes is a Holsman, the car being towed is a 1907 Franklin, Barney Oldfield drives old 999 etc. This is a talkie one month before the Jazz Singer and I have counted 10 spoken words.
Review of The First Auto
