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Auction History Result 9f084 DON JUAN 11x20 Mutoscope card 1920s John Barrymore as the great lover, rare & different! Date Sold 8/29/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Undated (probably 1920s or 1930s) Vintage Mutoscope Card (measures 10 3/4" x 19 3/4" [27 x 50 cm]) (Learn More) Don Juan, the 1926 Alan Crosland silent historic Italy romantic adventure melodrama ("Real moving pictures!"; the movie opens with Don Juan's father Don Jose, also played by Barrymore, and because he is betrayed by his wife, he tells his young son to only take from women and never give anything to them, and his son grows up to follow his father's words, and is also involved in much intrigue with the Borgias, but he finally falls in love with pretty young Mary Astor) starring John Barrymore (in the title role as Don Juan/Don Jose), Mary Astor (19 years old, hand picked by Barrymore for his co-star, and he had an affair with her!), Estelle Taylor (as Lucretia Borgia), Warner Oland, Montagu Love, Helene Costello, Jane Winton, Myrna Loy (as Maia, Lucretia's maid!), June Marlowe, Sheldon Lewis, Hedda Hopper, John Roche, Yvonne Day (as Don Juan, 5 years old), and Philippe De Lacey (as Don Juan, 10 years old). Note that this is the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a Mutoscope card. You may not be familiar with the word, but you have almost surely seen a Mutoscope machine, if not in person, then in a movie set in the distant past. The machines stood on metal legs and had a circular core. Many hundreds of still pictures were attached to the core (like a later day Rolodex). The pictures were encased within the machine, and there was a crank on the side, and a viewing area in the front, and a person would put money in the machine, and then it would light up, and you would turn the crank, and the pictures (which were sequential of a moving picture sequence) would move by at a speed that gave the illusion of watching a moving picture! The machines were first invented in 1895, and for the next 20 years or so, they were very popular. But as modern day movies became more prevalent and better quality, Mutoscopes fell by the wayside. However, clever promoters realized their potential for showing naked women to people who could not otherwise see them, and they started buying used machines and using them that way. They hung on all the way until the 1950s or so, eventually mostly only found in Scandinavian countries, where they could be used to show pornography. Very few of them survive today. Each machine had a roughly 11" x 20" card mounted in a frame above it, which showed you the name and an image from the movie you were going to be watching (sometimes they were highly edited versions of feature films). Often, these Mutoscope cards were separated from the machines when they broke and sold to collectors. Because the machines were in use for half a century, it is nearly impossible to date the cards! Ones that were made at a later time were purposely made to look "old fashioned", so as to seem in keeping with the machine itself. Our best guess on this particular card is that it might be from the 1920s or 1930s, but that is purely a guess. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades 
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