Vintage Movie Resources

January 27, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Winik? (1918) 🇺🇸

One of Hyman Winik’s craziest principles is to make happy those concerned with him in his business deals

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Watterson Rothacker (Watterson Rounds Rothacker) (1885-1960) | www.vintoz.com
January 25, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Rothacker? (1918) 🇺🇸

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Rothacker?

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Carl Laemmle (Karl Lämmle) (1867–1939) | www.vintoz.com
January 25, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Laemmle? (1918) 🇺🇸

Carl Laemmle consults his young son — 9 year old Carl Laemmle Jr. — on every picture

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Walter Greene (Walter E. Greene) (1872–1941) | www.vintoz.com
January 24, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Greene? (1918) 🇺🇸

Walter Greene knows the film business from A to Z

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J. D. Williams (James Dixon Williams) (1877–1934) | www.vintoz.com
January 23, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Williams? (1918) 🇺🇸

J. D. Williams is a Showman. That’s his proper classification. As a Showman, he’s an uplooker and an onlooker, and a widelooker

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John R. Freuler (John Rudolph Freuler) (1872–1958) | www.vintoz.com
January 23, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Freuler? (1918) 🇺🇸

Once we told John R. Freuler a funny story and we expected to get a laugh. To our chagrin he said “Ah, yes!” politely and introduced us to a serious man who wanted to know what we thought of the market for one-reel comedies

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E. W. Hammons (Earle W. Hammons) (1882–1962) | www.vintoz.com
January 22, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Hammons? (1918) 🇺🇸

So, gentle reader, we introduce herewith a snappy young man who’s always up on his toes: E. W. Hammons of the Educational Film Company of America

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Walter W. Irwin (~1881–1948) | www.vintoz.com
January 21, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Irwin? (1918) 🇺🇸

Walter W. Irwin is a good lawyer among film men and a good film man among lawyers

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William L. Sherrill (1866–1940) | www.vintoz.com
January 20, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Sherrill? (1918) 🇺🇸

“I don’t know the technical side of picture-making,” said William L. Sherrill, “but I do know fine pictures and I make them”

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S. L. Rothafel (Samuel Lionel Rothapfel | Samuel Lionel “Roxy” Rothafel) (1882–1936) | www.vintoz.com
January 20, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Rothapfel? (1918) 🇺🇸

S. L. Rothafel intuitively knows his audience — any kind of audience

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Albert E. Smith (Albert Edward Smith) (1875–1958) | www.vintoz.com
January 19, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Smith? (1918) 🇺🇸

We don’t understand what brought Albert E. Smith into the motion picture business

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Adam Kessel Jr. (1866–1946) | www.vintoz.com
January 19, 2026

What Kind of a Fellow Is — Kessel? (1918) 🇺🇸

Adam Kessel Jr. and Charles Bauman have always been plungers

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Sidney Drew — Film Humor More Than Making Funny Faces (1918) | www.vintoz.com
March 21, 2025

Sidney Drew — Film Humor More Than Making Funny Faces (1918) 🇺🇸

The human note, not monkey-shines, makes the strongest, most lasting appeal

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The Celluloid Drama in Japan (1918) | www.vintoz.com
March 20, 2025

The Celluloid Drama in Japan (1918) 🇺🇸

They do things differently in the Land of the Rising Sun

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Elsie Ferguson — Advantages of the Screen Over the Stage (1918) | www.vintoz.com
March 20, 2025

Elsie Ferguson — Advantages of the Screen Over the Stage (1918) 🇺🇸

A comparison and a prophecy with some comments by the way

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Edna Goodrich — The Importance of Being Well-Dressed (1918) | www.vintoz.com
March 20, 2025

Edna Goodrich — The Importance of Being Well-Dressed (1918) 🇺🇸

Some reasons why correct costuming is an aid to art

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Shirley Mason — The Evolution of a Star (1918) | www.vintoz.com
March 19, 2025

Shirley Mason — The Evolution of a Star (1918) 🇺🇸

How one ambitious little girl was made over for the movies

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Film Editors — Putting It Together (1918) | www.vintoz.com
December 30, 2024

Film Editors — Putting It Together (1918) 🇺🇸

Photoplays are often made or ruined in the cutting room.

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Mary Warren — Stifling the Tears (1918) | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2024

Mary Warren — Stifling the Tears (1918) 🇺🇸

Mary Warren bit her upper lip instead of the lower — and that’s the sort of actress she is

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Hugh Thompson — The Lady? No, the Car! (1918) | www.vintoz.com
December 28, 2024

Hugh Thompson — The Lady? No, the Car! (1918) 🇺🇸

Hugh Thompson would rather talk autos than pictures

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Robert Harron — Griffith’s Boy — Bobby (1918) | www.vintoz.com
December 27, 2024

Robert Harron — Griffith’s Boy — Bobby (1918) 🇺🇸

Harron, the Screen’s Premier Juvenile. “The Boy” in “The Birth of a Nation” and “Intolerance.”

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Wheeler Oakman (with Tod Browning) — With the Big Show! (1918) | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2024

Wheeler Oakman — With the Big Show! (1918) 🇺🇸

Wheeler Oakman is in the all-star cast of the greatest picture ever made

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Rhea Mitchell — The Lovely Riddle (1918) | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2024

Rhea Mitchell — The Lovely Riddle (1918) 🇺🇸

Miss Mitchell — but everybody calls her “Ginger” — says no more black and blue drama for her

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Jacques A. Berst — The Daddy of Them All (1918) | www.vintoz.com
December 13, 2024

Jacques A. Berst — The Daddy of Them All (1918) 🇺🇸

Twenty-two years ago he was in the same business — selling moving pictures

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