louise brooks as the doomed “ canary ” in the canary murder case 1929
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This is a sample of one of the slideshows I created for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. I used their fonts and created a new template that was be easier for inserting the photos and text. The text and images were provided by each film ’ s researcher/author. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
This is a sample of one of the slideshows I created for the San Francisco Silent Film
Festival. I used their fonts and created a new
template that was be easier for inserting the
photos and text.
The text and images were provided by each
film’s researcher/author.
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
American actor William Gillette coined the phrase “elementary, my dear
fellow,” in an 1899 play about Sherlock Holmes. His interpretation created the template for subsequent portrayals
of the character. A 1916 film of Gillette as Holmes is considered lost.
1916’s Sherlock Holmes with William Gillette in the lead (right) confronting archenemy Moriarty (Ernest Maupain), as Billy (Burford Hampden) looks on
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Douglas Fairbanks played a drug-addled
detective named Coke Ennyday in The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916).
It is a delirious two-reeler sending up Sherlock Holmes’s interest in narcotics.
Douglas Fairbanks (center) as Coke Ennyday, with Tom Wilson (left) and an unidentified actor
in The Mystery of the Leaping Fish 1916
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Philo Vance, an upper-class sleuth created
by writer Willard Wright, made his first movie appearance in 1929’s The
Canary Murder Case. William Powell played the detective and
Louise Brooks played the “canary” showgirl.
Louise Brooks as the doomed “canary” in The Canary Murder Case 1929
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Raymond Chandler, creator of Philip Marlowe, once praised the creator of
Sam Spade: “[Dashiell] Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that
commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.”
Left: Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade with Peter Lorre inThe Maltese Falcon 1941 Right: Bogart as Philip Marlowe with
Dorothy Malone in The Big Sleep 1944
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Daffy Duck donned Sherlock Holmes’s deerstalker cap in 1956’s Deduce You
Say, a Looney Tunes parody directed by Chuck Jones. Dorlock Holmes and Porky
Pig as Watkins match wits with the Shropshire Slasher.
Watkins and Dorlock Holmes on the trail of the Shropshire Slasher in Deduce You Say 1956
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Jeremy Brett redefined Sherlock Holmes for a
new generation. He appeared in 41 episodes
of a lavish British TV series, which was the
first attempt to adapt Conan Doyle’s original stories faithfully.
Publicity shot of Jeremy Brett in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1984
Buster Keaton: Special Effects WizardBUSTER KEATON: SPECIAL EFFECTS WIZARD
For Sherlock Jr., Buster Keaton and photographer Elgin Lessley improved
the optical effects they had used in The Play House (1921), for which multiple exposures created the illusion of an
orchestra made up entirely of Keatons.
Three Buster Keatons make music in The Play House 1921
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Sherlock Jr. Slide Show byRichard Hildreth
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Intermission music by The Ragtime Skedaddlers