'Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood' Trailer
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Title
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'Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood' Trailer
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Creator
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Story by - Elton Thomas
Directed by Allan Dwan
Photography by Arthur Edeson
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Date
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1922
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Description
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The clip shows a trailer for 'Robin Hood'
The intertitles are newer versions as the old ones were poor quality or lost.
The trailer outlines the story and the amazing sets within the film.
It is pieced together as if a current Hollywood film
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Scholarly Significance
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This shows scale of productions by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures and how Hollywood was a growing industry in the silent era.
The large scale of this film with hundreds of extras, massive sets and famous actors presents a clear identity of Fairbanks who is more than just an actor. He is a businessman, an actor and movie star. His wealth is huge.
Fairbanks stars in a film which is violent and stereotypically 'macho'. Violence, action, war and weaponry are themes even today that are associated more with male actors than females.
This presents a masculine portrayal of Fairbanks and the type of films he would star in and produce.
Shots of him and a women indicate a love interest, inferring a romance between the two characters which ties into sexuality in the 1920's
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Rights
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Copyright 1922 by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation
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Cataloguer
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Alex Bartholomew
