In the Days of Buffalo Bill (Universal, 1922). Very Good/ Fine. Lobby Card (11" x 14").. ...

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In the Days of Buffalo Bill (Universal, 1922). Very Good/ Fine. Lobby Card (11" x 14").
In the Days of Buffalo Bill is the 1922 Edward Laemmle silent historical western serial. Apparently this was quite an epic, because it showed the end of the Civil War, the assassination of Lincoln, and the driving of the golden spike of the Transcontinental Railroad! It stars Art Acord ("and the greatest cast ever assembled"), Duke R. Lee (in the title role as Buffalo Bill Cody), George A. Williams, Dorothy Woods, and Jay Morley. Because this is a serial rather than a feature film, a presumption may be made that this card is from the general "title" set, rather than one of the eighteen individual chapters, as it bears no indication of a specific chapter. Note that this is a "lost" serial which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. Also note that director Edward Laemmle has been largely forgotten by film history, but he has a thoroughly interesting biography. He is the nephew of Carl Laemmle, who persuaded him to leave his electrical engineering career in 1915 and join him at the recently opened Universal Studios. He started as an assistant director, mainly under the legendary John Ford. In 1917, he went to New Guinea to produce a movie about the natives there, and was shipwrecked, and spent two years among the Kia Kia cannibals. This adventure was re-created in the movie Shipwrecked Among Cannibals, which became the first million dollar movie for Universal Studios. Edward Laemmle went on to direct roughly 50 movies, and had many famous assistants, including the renowned William Wyler. It does not seem clear that William F. Cody actually appeared in this serial as himself, making this remarkable portrait card of Cody all the more precious. The card had 2" triangular losses at each of upper right, and lower left corners, which have been replaced, and blended with selective airbrushing to front and back, which has also addressed border pinholes. Some marginal smudging and age toning remains. From the Norm Lazarson Collection.


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