EDUCATIONAL PICTURES SIXTH ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT 1925-1926 (1926) Studio yearbook

Los Angeles: Educational Pictures, 1926. Vintage original studio yearbook, printed wrappers, 12 x 9″ (30.5 x 23 cm), 18 pp. Some light staining and scuffing to covers, very good+.

Educational Pictures was a production and film distribution company founded in 1916 by Earle (E. W.) Hammons (1882–1962). Educational primarily distributed short subjects; it is best known for its series of comedies starring Buster Keaton and the earliest screen appearances of Shirley Temple.

Hammons established the company to make instructional films for schools, but making comedies for theatrical release proved more lucrative. Education did issue many educational, travelogue and novelty shorts, but its main enterprise became comedy. Educational’s heyday was the 1920s, when the popular silent comedies of Al St. John, Lupino Lane, Lige Conley, Lloyd Hamilton and Monty Collins complemented many a moviehouse bill as “the spice of the program”. (Wikipedia)

All of these artists are represented in this book, which was issued during their most successful period.