BLACK ROOM 1935 #3489-13 Katherine De Mille COLUMBIA MASTER STILL BY RAY JONES

Description

THE BLACK ROOM
. Crime thriller with horror elements.
Notes
. New York City previewed Aug 15 1935 at the Fox, Brooklyn; opened Aug 16 1935 [
NYT
]. At the Fox, Brooklyn, week of Aug 16 1935 at 73 min [
V
8-21-35 review].
Per AFI
: US. Columbia Pictures Corp, Harry Cohn, President; distributed by Columbia Pictures Corp. In production May 6 - Jun 7 1935. Released Jul 25 1935; Western Electric Noiseless Recording; black and white; 67, 72 or 75 minutes; PCA Certificate No. 1009. © Jul 27 1935 Columbia Pictures Corp [LP5689]. Reviewed in
HR
7-17-35 as
The Black Room Mystery
.
Per IMDB
: UK released Feb 3 1936 as
The Black Room Mystery
. Reissued 1942. Astor Pictures Corporation (1949 theatrical reissue). Columbia Pictures Corporation (1955 theatrical reissue widescreen).
Abridged
on-screen credits: Columbia Pictures Corporation presents. Boris Karloff in.
The Black Room
. With Marian Marsh. Robert Allen. Boris Karloff as Anton. Marian Marsh as Thea. Robert Allen as Lt. Lussan. Thurston Hall as Col. Hassel. Katherine DeMille as Mashka. [1] Screen Play ... Arthur Strawn and Henry Myers. Story … Arthur Strawn. Photography … Allen G. Seigler, A.S.C. Directed by R. William Neill. [End Credits] The Players. Gregor / Anton … Boris Karloff. Thea … Marian Marsh. Lt. Lussan … Robert Allen. Col. Hassel … Thurston Hall. Mashka … Katherine de Mille. [1] Beran … John Buckler. Baron de Berghman … Henry Kolker. Lt. Hassel … Colin Tapley. Peter … Torben Meyer. Columbia. [1] Name is as it appears in the credits
This is an
Original 8"x10" (approx.) Columbia Pictures Black and White Still
, with the
ORIGINAL COLUMBIA PRODUCTION SNIPE
on the verso. The two-punch binding holes at the bottom were done by Columbia.
Note this is an
ORIGINAL COLUMBIA PICTURES MASTER STILL PHOTO
, from the original master set prepared by Columbia for internal use, and never intended for general or public use. A Columbia Master Still is characterized by (1) no Still number written on the image negative, (2) a penciled (and later ink stamped) number written on the verso which identifies the assigned Still number, (3) usually the Columbia Still photographer is indicated on a wet stamp, and (4) a production snipe which often contains much more detail on the actors shown in the image. More than one Master set was often prepared, and Keybook Stills are sometimes seen with the tab or hinge with binding holes at one side usually with the "MPAA Approved" green ink wet stamp (although most often the tab/hinge is cut away to reduce the Still to standard size). This Master Still process exists for Columbia productions from at least the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s, with a different format used in the 1950s to 1970s. The Master Still is the most important level of Columbia Stills, representing a Still that was struck from very close to the original negative, in only a handful of copies, and long before the large print run of Stills distributed to theaters.
Also note the Columbia wet stamp in the upper right verso, where specific information on the Still is included, such as date of Hays approval and when the negative was released to New York. This wet stamp was used by Columbia in the mid-1930s and seems to appear only on the "prime" Master Stills.
A true photographic Still, not a computer generated print or scan. This is an
Original Columbia Pictures
MASTER
Still
used to promote the film on its original release.
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