Canned Corn (Reel 2) Excerpt from a documentary on RUDOLPH VALENTINO, though also serves as an excellent resource for material on 1900-1920s era.
Lengthy Schlitz open (in color)
Title open (in B&W)
Montage of industrial America, 1900's (tLS's bustling city life, the streets littered by Model T Fords, horse-drawn carriages, trolleys & pedestrians; tLS biplane passing over camera; LS steam train passing by body of water; MS's men working on auto assembly line at Ford plant; TLS Ford Model T cars driving off line, from plant).
MSs two women, dressed in ankle-length dresses and large hats, buying tickets at a booth outside a movie theater. (fashion)
Inside a small theater, audience watching movies. MS's of silent screen stars in action. Excerpt from film starring Bronco Billy Anderson.
Excerpt from a film starring William F Hart
Excerpt from a film starring The Keystone Kops
Excerpt from a film starring Charles Ray
Excerpt from a film starring Wallace Reid
Excerpt from a film starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess
Excerpt from a film starring Gloria Swanson
Excerpt from a film starring Douglas Fairbanks
DO NOT USE Still photo of Mary Pickford
Excerpt from a film starring Charlie Chaplin
Panning LS's of a Hollywood studio, early 1920s.
Excerpt of early Valentino film in which he was typically cast as a villain - a monacled aristocrat
Excerpt of early Valentino film - a young hood wearing a Gatsby cap
Excerpt of early Valentino film - a romancing hustler with Clara Kimball Young
Excerpt from "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", the first to employ Valentino's romantic sensibilities.
DO NOT USE THIS SEGMENT. Excerpt from "The Sheik" (includes quick LS of crew filming a desert scene).