"Coming Attractions," Tinted

A couple months ago, Slate's wonderful history blog, The Vault, posted on the earliest "coming soon" advertisements on cinematic screens. These were hand-tinted lantern slides which would be projected before and between films. The post reproduces a number of these slides from an extensive collection held by the Cleveland Public Library. With my love of both hand-tinting and the 1920s, I was terrifically excited to discover this trend, and even more to discover the library's digitized collection of the slides exceeds 700. So I just had to share a few more, with many thanks to Rebecca Onion of The Vault. Some are for movies that are still known; others are delightfully obscure. All are very, very colourful. 

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Orphans of the Storm (with Lilian Gish and her sister Dorothy), 1921. Source

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Strictly Confidential, 1919. Source

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The Runaway, with Clara Bow, 1926. Source

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The Thief of Bagdad, with Douglas Fairbanks, 1924. Source

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Steelheart, 1921. Source

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The Kick-Off, 1926. Source

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The Heart of Humanity, 1919. Source

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The Trail of the Tiger, 1927. Source

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The Craving, 1918. Source

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The Phantom of the Range, 1928. Source

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The Millionaire Pirate, 1919. Source

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Valencia, 1926. Source

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The Cat's Pajamas, 1926. Source

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The Boy Friend, 1926. Source

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Their Last Quarter, ca. 1925. Source

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Flame of the Desert, 1919. Source

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Thy Name is Woman, 1924. Source

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Are All Men Alike, 1921. Source

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La Boheme, with Lillian Gish and John Gilbert, 1926. Source

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Mantrap, with Clara Bow, 1926. Source