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This chapter examines three different phenomena that the trade press highlighted through the 1920s. One was the attempt to organize companies for the production and circulation of stage prologues. Fauchon and Marco produced the only successful one that featured “contrastive” prologues for the West Coast Theatres circuit. A second was the trade-press strategy of having certain exhibitors design blueprints for their stage prologues, which others could draw on for their own creation. Besides Plunkett and Hyman, Colby Harriman was the most consistent proponent of such blueprints. A third phenomenon was a persistent debate over the function and value of stage prologues, with Harriman and Hyman the most prominent defenders. The chapter ends with a published debate between filmmaker Sidney Alcott and impresario Sid Grauman.

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Production Circuits, Design Blueprints, and Debates

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  • Richard Abel

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This chapter examines three different phenomena that the trade press highlighted through the 1920s. One was the attempt to organize companies for the production and circulation of stage prologues. Fauchon and Marco produced the only successful one that featured “contrastive” prologues for the West Coast Theatres circuit. A second was the trade-press strategy of having certain exhibitors design blueprints for their stage prologues, which others could draw on for their own creation. Besides Plunkett and Hyman, Colby Harriman was the most consistent proponent of such blueprints. A third phenomenon was a persistent debate over the function and value of stage prologues, with Harriman and Hyman the most prominent defenders. The chapter ends with a published debate between filmmaker Sidney Alcott and impresario Sid Grauman.