Silent Film Trailers/ Pathe News Film

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Year Published: 1920

Complete Record: A movie trailer for the silent film “Clothes Make the Pirate”. The film is a comedy that centers around a disgruntled 18th century Bostonian, played by Errol, who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and play-acts the part. He is mistaken for the real pirate, Dixie Bull (played by Walter Law) whom Errol, of course, bumps into later in the film. Trailer for “The Live Wire”: Johnny Hines plays the Great Maranelli, who leaves the circus for health reasons and then discovers he still needs his circus skills to get by. Trailer for “Irene”: A klutzy Irish-American girl gets a job as a fashion model. Trailer for “North of 36”: The story takes place in post-Civil War Texas, where the local cattlemen are suffering from their inability to get their livestock to market. A Yankee war hero, is sent from Washington to help set up a safe and efficient passageway for the cattle drovers -- thereby earning himself the enmity of the local land barons who've been charging the cattlemen exorbitant fees to trek across their land. Trailer for “Madame Sans-Gene”: A Romantic Story of Napoleon's Court. Trailer for “The American Venus”: A dazzling story of the perfect American beauty! A news headline that discusses the arrival of Lester J. Maitland and Albert Hegenberger to San Francisco from Hawaii. Footage of the plane arriving in San Francisco. People greet the two man and congratulate them on their successful non stop flight. A news headline that discusses the first pictures of a plane after it crashed, it was flown by Ernest Smith and Emory Bronte. Footage of men surveying the crash site. There is footage of the two pilots after the crash, they both survived without injury.