Jesse Collins, and then some.

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• 1 sass // Apr 27, 2008 at 8:43 am

  anyone know where I can buy a poster of this? (Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Ours)

• 2 Jesse, himself. // Apr 27, 2008 at 9:55 am

  Sorry, sass, don’t know where you’d find that. But someone should make one, because this has been one of the most visited posts on the blog :)

  I’ll keep my eyes open - if I come across a print version of this, I’ll let you know.

• 3 The Truthest // Apr 28, 2008 at 5:52 am

  As you can see, this is not from 1919, it is a fake… well, not exactly a fake, it has been reproduced for some programme, and as you can see the female character in the middle directly under the sign is that amazing actress from both Brookside and The Royale Family - Sue Johnson….. so, who are the other women and men (dressed as women)? Anyone got any ideas??

• 4 Jesse, himself. // Apr 28, 2008 at 6:38 am

  I suspect you’re right, Truthest. The centre model does seem somehow sharper than the others. And I sincerely hope (and agree) that a couple of these beauties are guys in drag.

  But mostly, I’m still tickled that a cute little piece-of-fluff that I tripped over on the internets and added to the blog for a laugh is generating such scrutiny :)

  Thanks for the joining the conversation. Whoever did create it certainly had a sense of humour. And a good eye for scary-looking women. My personal favourite is the pointer. She (or he) looks suspiciously like my late Uncle George.

• 5 The Truthest // Apr 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  hey… ’she’ looks like my uncle George too…!? Maybe we’re related :)

  It’s a cool picture Jesse, one I found particularly interesting when I saw it because, all the faces in the picture seem very familiar (obviously I mention Sue Johnston (sorry not Johnson) and I was interested to find out whether or not this is a staged photograph for either a play/tv programme.

  No one seems to know, if you consider that this is a genuine poster from 1919, surely we’d have all seen it before now? I cannot seem to find anything about it on the web - not that I am going to dedicate my life to the search…. !

• 6 Jesse, himself. // Apr 30, 2008 at 1:13 pm

  :)

  You’re not the only one searching Truthest:

  http://www.groupsrv.com/movie/about91102.html

  Sounds like the final comment, indicatign it’s a still from a Three Stooges movie sounds the most plausible…

• 7 Riqqa // May 24, 2008 at 1:30 am

  This picture is a still taken from a Movie made in the 1890’s by Thomas Edison in his New Jersey studio called the Black Maria - the world’s first movie production studio. The first films shot at the Black Maria, a tar-paper-covered, dark studio room with a retractable roof, included segments of magic shows, plays, vaudeville performances (with dancers and strongmen), acts from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, various boxing matches and cockfights, and scantily-clad women. So here we have a very early example of the media manipulating an image for their own ends!

• 8 Jesse, himself. // May 24, 2008 at 5:44 am

  Welcome, Riqqa.

  It may very well be from one of Edisons. And quite a coincidence this is. Some years ago, I co-starred in a film called Edison: Wizard of Light in which I played a fictitious movie director that represented the film side of Edison. One of the major setups involved a period recreation of Edison’s Black Maria, where a number of silent movies would be shot, simultaneously. There’s a clip available here at Brightcove and at about 3:51 you’ll see that setup - and me directing the movies :)

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