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Colour trade ad for MGM's 1927 North American release of F.W. Murnau's silent German Expressionist classic Faust, based on the legend as told by Goethe. A drawing of the devil Mephisto, based on Emil Jannings' portrayal, shows its influence on the Walt Disney animated classic Fantasia.

Colour trade ad for MGM's 1927 North American release of F.W. Murnau's silent German Expressionist classic Faust, based on the legend as told by Goethe. A drawing of the devil Mephisto, based on Emil Jannings' portrayal, shows its influence on the Walt Disney animated classic Fantasia.

Selling the Silents #9

Release schedule ad for MGM's North American release of F.W. Murnau's 1926 German Expressionist classic Faust.

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Promotional two-page spread from the 1927 Paramount release calendar, promoting silent film comedian Harold Lloyd. Harold's smiling, bespectacled face is shown in the lens of a pair of hornrimmed glasses, while the text proclaims him to be "The World's Greatest Comedy Attraction!" and "King of Money Makers". The background is a large crowd of faces, and there are cartoon images of Lloyd along the bottom in various guises from his movies, like a sailor, an office worker and a college football player.

Promotional two-page spread from the 1927 Paramount release calendar, promoting silent film comedian Harold Lloyd. Harold's smiling, bespectacled face is shown in the lens of a pair of hornrimmed glasses, while the text proclaims him to be "The World's Greatest Comedy Attraction!" and "King of Money Makers". The background is a large crowd of faces, and there are cartoon images of Lloyd along the bottom in various guises from his movies, like a sailor, an office worker and a college football player.

Selling the Silents #8

Everyone loves Harold Lloyd! He's the King of Money Makers!
(from the 1927 Paramount Pictures release calendar)

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Promotional ad for MGM Studios, from 1926, for one of its biggest stars, horror and thriller icon Lon Chaney, billed here as The Man of 1,000 Faces, due to his skill at using makeup and physical transoformation in the creation of his unforgettable characters. Here he is the clown from He Who Gets Slapped, the ventriloquist from The Unholy Three and a criminal in The Blackbird.

Promotional ad for MGM Studios, from 1926, for one of its biggest stars, horror and thriller icon Lon Chaney, billed here as The Man of 1,000 Faces, due to his skill at using makeup and physical transoformation in the creation of his unforgettable characters. Here he is the clown from He Who Gets Slapped, the ventriloquist from The Unholy Three and a criminal in The Blackbird.

Selling the Silents #7

MGM hypes its Man of a 1,000 Faces, Lon Chaney (1927)

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Promotional artwork for the silent version of The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille in 1923. This ad shows the various sins from Exodus, with images from the Paramount motion picture.

Promotional artwork for the silent version of The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille in 1923. This ad shows the various sins from Exodus, with images from the Paramount motion picture.

Selling the Silents #6

Paramount promotes The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1923)

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@moviessilently.bsky.social You might enjoy my ongoing #SellingTheSilents series on here, reposting images I'd previously hosted on the #IfCharlieParkerWasAGunslinger photoblog many moons ago. Feel free to repost!

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Paramount Pictures promotional art for an unproduced Bebe Daniels comedy, Advice to Lovers, taken from a 1927 Paramount release calendar.

Paramount Pictures promotional art for an unproduced Bebe Daniels comedy, Advice to Lovers, taken from a 1927 Paramount release calendar.

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Advice to Lovers (announced in 1927, never produced)

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Promotional artwork for the 1927 silent film French Foreign Legion epic Beau Geste, starring Ronald Colman, taken from a Paramount release calendar.

Promotional artwork for the 1927 silent film French Foreign Legion epic Beau Geste, starring Ronald Colman, taken from a Paramount release calendar.

Selling the Silents #4

Beau Geste (1927)

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Promotional ad for the Clara Bow film IT from a 1927 Paramount Pictures film release calendar.

Promotional ad for the Clara Bow film IT from a 1927 Paramount Pictures film release calendar.

Selling the Silents #3

It (1927)

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Promotional artwork for the silent Pola Negri film Barbed Wire (1927) from the Paramount Pictures 1927 release calendar.

Promotional artwork for the silent Pola Negri film Barbed Wire (1927) from the Paramount Pictures 1927 release calendar.

Selling the Silents #2

Barbed Wire (1927)

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Selling the Silents #1

Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

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