eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6d041 BLUE BLAZES glass slide '22 champion prizefighter Lester Cuneo goes out west & saves the day! Date Sold 4/10/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Glass Slide (measures 3 1/4" x 4" [8 x 10 cm]) (Learn More) Blue Blazes, the 1922 Robert Kelly & Charles W. Mack silent romantic boxing sports melodrama ("5 reels - produced under the personal supervision of Charles W. Mack"; the hero is a champion boxer who gets bored and he goes out west, and he is robbed, and falls in with a bunch of vagrants, not revealing who he actually is, and he ends up on a ranch, where, in an original plot twist, there lives a girl and her mother, and there are bad guys trying to steal the ranch from them!; naturally, he saves the ranch for them and falls in love with the girl, and only after she agrees to marry him does he tell her that he is not a broke vagrant, but actually a rich champion boxer) starring Lester Cuneo (billed as the "Smiling Daredevil"), Francelia Billington, Fanny Midgley, Bert Sprotte, and Roy Watson. Note that Lester Cuneo had been a major comedy star at the Selig Studio in 1912, but after just a few movies, he chose to re-invent himself as a cowboy star, and had success there as well, also playing dramatic roles at the same time. He served in World War I (WWI), and returned to Hollywood and again began making westerns, playing a character billed as "The Smiling Daredevil". But by the early 1920s, his westerns were less and less successful, and after a series of personal and professional failures, Cuneo could not get any parts at all, and he committed suicide in 1925. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that glass slides were designed to be put in a special projector that would project the image onto a movie screen (they use exactly the same concept as 35mm slides). This slide is the kind that has two panes of glass that are taped together with black tape around all four edges (front and back), typical of many older glass slides. We have provided a high quality scan of the image, but we have not taken a photo of the slide, because there would really be very little to see! Condition: very good. The theater that used this slide wrote the days the movie was playing in the play dates section at the bottom of the glass, but the play dates were mostly erased (see our image). Learn More about condition grades
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