Silent Photoplay: A Place for Stories of All Types

Category: Silent Film

  • Silent Photoplayer Christmas Tree

    This was printed in the December 1912 Motion Picture Story Magazine. Can you name all the photoplayers featured? I thought this was pretty awesome. Some of them have names under the pictures, but others don’t. I’d have to consult the Gallery of Players section and compare faces to be able to name them all! As…

  • John E. Halliday

    John E. Halliday was chatted in the December 1911 issue of Motion Picture Story Magazine. Multiple sources have different birth years, but all say September 14. Wikipedia says 1869, but that has to be way off, since he fought with the British Army in the Boer War, and it seems this would make him too…

  • Silent Photoplayer Word Find Answer Sheet

    Here are the answers to the previous word find game from Motion Picture Story Magazine. Original post here. I did not get them all! The answers I got in full were Costello, Joyce, Hotely, Pickford, Myers, Mason, Anderson, Bushman, Robinson, Kerrigan, Walker, Wayne, Normand and Hawley.

  • Silent Photoplayer Word Find

    I wonder how many of these our silent photoplay lovers can figure out? This is from February 1913 Motion Picture Story Magazine.

  • Edwin August

    Edwin August was born (let me take a deep breath before saying this) Edwin August Philip Von der Butz on November 10, 1883 in St. Louis Missouri, and died on March 4th, 1964. His mother was Sarah Mykins, and his father’s name was August Butz. Edwin August was one of the players of the legitimate stage…