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...
Sep 1926
An animated hair cartoon short.
Jul 1926
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.
Dec 1925
The personalities portrayed are Will Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Colonel House, Harry Lauder, Marguerite Clarke and "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Jun 1926
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.
Jan 1926
The resultant faces this time are: Lady Astor, David Belasco, Clara Kimball Young, Billie Burke and Larry Semon.
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.
Nov 1925
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.
Oct 1925
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)
Nov 1926
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.
Apr 1926
The personages portrayed include Paderewski, Henry Cabot Lodge, John McCormick, John Philip Sousa, Victor Herbert and Mendelsohn.
Feb 1926
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.
Aug 1926
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