““The Spice of the Program””: Educational Pictures, Early Sound Slapstick, and the Small-Town Audien...

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Beteiligte: King, Rob
In: Film History: An International Journal, 23, 2011, 3, S. 313-330
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Indiana University Press
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Umfang: 313-330
ISSN: 0892-2160
1553-3905
DOI: 10.2979/filmhistory.23.3.313
veröffentlicht in: Film History: An International Journal
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: sid-55-col-jstorfilm
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<label>Abstract</label> <p>Established in 1915, Educational Pictures was the industry leader in short subject distribution by the late silent era, dominating the market in two-reel slapstick films. Yet by the mid-1930s the company's reputation had sunk precipitously, and Educational failed to survive the decade. This paper examines that history as a vantage point for reassessing traditional accounts of slapstick's sound-era decline, showing how slapstick cinema's dwindling industrial status was tied to upheavals in the short-subject market and growing cultural divisions within Depression-era America.</p>