Ralph Barton and funny man Howard Dietz collaborated in the creation of this nifty six-panel comic strip in order to ridicule the Hollywood film industry and expose that lot as the tiresome dullards that they were (they’ve since reformed) and they also had the odd vision that the gag would be posted on a web pages ninety years hence.
Click here to see a second Dietz/Barlow collaboration.
-Read this article from the 1920s that also defamed silent movies…
From Amazon: Songs by Howard Dietz
KEY WORDS: ridicule for silent film industry 1920,Silent Films Satirized,silent film cartoon teases silent film scripts 1920,Ralph Barton Cartoonist 1920,Movie Cartoon 1920,Ralph Barton Cartoon 1920,Ralph Barton Silent Movie Cartoon 1920,Howard Dietz Hollywood Silent Movie Spoof 1920
