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Auction History Result 5s0289 BLACKBIRD deluxe 11x14.25 still 1926 Lon Chaney by Ruth Harriet Louise, Tod Browning Date Sold 9/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Deluxe 11" x 14 1/4" [28 x 36 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) The Blackbird (also known as "The Black Bird"), the 1926 Tod Browning silent romantic love triangle crime thriller ("Story by Tod Browning"; a really wild story of a master thief in London who steals at night, and by day poses as his saintly crippled twin brother known as The Bishop who works at a rescue mission, and the thief and his arch rival West End Bertie are both in love with the same girl so the Black Bird frames Bertie for shooting a cop, but the police discover the truth of that lie, and to escape, the Black Bird pretends to fight with his crippled brother behind a closed door and when the door suddenly opens it strikes Chaney who is now disguised as the Bishop, and he falls and breaks his back for real, dying soon after) starring Lon Chaney Sr. (in the title role as "The Black Bird"), Owen Moore, Renee Adoree, Doris Lloyd, and Andy MacLennan. Note that the IMDb lists the title of this movie as "The Blackbird", but the posters have the title as "The Black Bird". However, the original campaign book trade ad shows it as "The Blackbird", so we imagine the title was changed just prior to release, and it is difficult to say that one is more accurate than the other. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the movie referred to on the snipe ("The Blackbird") is called "The Mocking Bird" on the back of this still, which was the working title for that movie! Also note that this still measures 11" x 14 1/4" [28 x 36 cm]. Note that this is a deluxe still printed on double weight paper stock and it has an embossed photographer's stamp in one of the bottom corners. Note that this is one of 100 deluxe oversized stills (measuring 11" x 14" or similar) which were consigned to us, and they all originated from the legendary James Card Collection! James Card was a film preservationist who, starting in 1948, worked at the newly created George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and he helped build their massive motion picture collection, preserving movies that had been forgotten at that time. In 1955, he discovered that Louise Brooks was living as a recluse in New York City, and he persuaded her to move to Rochester, where she wrote many letters and some books about her legendary career. Not only do these 100 oversized stills (which we are auctioning individually) have wonderful "provenance", but there is also no fear that they are not from their first release (and many of the stills have photographer stamps on the back or embossed, and some have other information on the back, and several have a stamp that identifies them as being from the "James Card Collection"! Condition: good. The still has discolored unevenly and there is tiny paper loss in the top right blank corner. Learn More about condition grades 
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