Leonard Bentley
Piccadilly Circus: 1924
This is an anonymously published and very badly colourised postcard showing Piccadilly Circus looking northeast with Shaftesbury Avenue on the left and Coventry Street on the right. The London Pavilion is in Cinema mode and is showing “Wanderer of the Wasteland”, a silent Western based on Zane Grey’s thrilling story of the Arizona Desert and Death Valley, it was only the third film to be filmed in Technicolor. The film played at the London Pavilion from Monday 7th July until Saturday 30th August 1924 when it transferred to the King’s Cross Cinema, “The home of flickerless films”. The film starred Jack Holt, Noah Beery and Billie Dove, the wife of Irvin Willat, the director of the film. It is now believed to be a “Lost Film”, the last copy was in the possession of the director in the 1960s but in 1971 he found that the film had decomposed and had turned to jelly.
Piccadilly Circus: 1924
This is an anonymously published and very badly colourised postcard showing Piccadilly Circus looking northeast with Shaftesbury Avenue on the left and Coventry Street on the right. The London Pavilion is in Cinema mode and is showing “Wanderer of the Wasteland”, a silent Western based on Zane Grey’s thrilling story of the Arizona Desert and Death Valley, it was only the third film to be filmed in Technicolor. The film played at the London Pavilion from Monday 7th July until Saturday 30th August 1924 when it transferred to the King’s Cross Cinema, “The home of flickerless films”. The film starred Jack Holt, Noah Beery and Billie Dove, the wife of Irvin Willat, the director of the film. It is now believed to be a “Lost Film”, the last copy was in the possession of the director in the 1960s but in 1971 he found that the film had decomposed and had turned to jelly.