Red Seal Pictures

The “Animated Hair” films, featuring artwork by “Marcus” (not well-known animator Sid Marcus, but a caricaturist for the original humorous Life Magazine) were relatively easy for the studio to produce, using one artist (his hand usually seen on screen drawing the image) and the gimmick of manipulating one caricature with stop motion to create a second caricature (usually by rearranging a hair-do). Audiences were thrilled. Fifty one “Animated Hair” shorts were produced between 1924 and 1927. (from: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/animated-hair-cartoon-no-18-1925)

Marcus draws a bird, finally turning it upside down to show a perfect likeness to Galli Curci. Likenesses in the short also include W. H. Taft, General Joffre, Napoleon, J.P. Morgan, Sessue Hayakawa, Nickolai Lenin, La Follette.

After Uplift Society-champion Crabbine Hicks has the musical revue shut down, her son Buster hides the out-of-work chorus girls in their home, while Crabbine is out of town. While cooking sausage, Buster starts a fire...

An animated hair cartoon short.

As usual, pieces of hair fly around and take the form of well known characters. This time the different subjects include, William Shakespeare, John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, John Drew, Dorothy Dalton and Tom Meighan.

An animated hair cartoon short.

An animated hair cartoon short.

The resultant faces this time are: Lady Astor, David Belasco, Clara Kimball Young, Billie Burke and Larry Semon.

The personages portrayed include Paderewski, Henry Cabot Lodge, John McCormick, John Philip Sousa, Victor Herbert and Mendelsohn.

This time he transforms some hard looking characters into the well known countenances. Snub Pollard's picture is changed into Jack Holt. Charles Chaplin into Rudolph Valentino. Other faces are manipulated until they appear as Charles Murray, Mabel Normand, Irvin Cobb, and Harold Lloyd. Hair, mustaches, ears, etc. fly around at an amazing rate.

The personalities portrayed are Will Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Colonel House, Harry Lauder, Marguerite Clarke and "Fatty" Arbuckle.

Marcus of the New York Times continues his clever changing of character by moving about or adding bits of hair. These changes result in likenesses of Sessue Hayakawa, Pauline Frederick, Theodore Roberts, Anita Stewart and Pola Negri.

Marcus takes the original drawings from his own pen and converts them into the cartoon characters of the best known newspaper artists such as Harry Hershfield, Rube Goldberg, Cliff Sterrett, George McManus, etc.

An animated hair cartoon short.

An animated hair cartoon short.

Marcus changes the countenance of Bryan to that of Briand. Another interesting example of this cartoonist's cleverness is a drawing of a tiger which gradually takes on the likeness of Clemenceau, "The Tiger of France." Other subjects include Josephus Daniels, Lloyd George, Theodore Roosevelt and Cardinal Mercier.