The Black Pirate (1926)
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The Black Pirate (USA 1926, Albert Parker).
Credit: UCLA Film & Television Archive, frame clippings.
Credit: Library of Congress, Technicolor no. II outtakes.
Photographs of the nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
Contemporary Reception:
Anonymous (1925): The Black Pirate. In: Variety, 31 December 1925. View Quote
Anonymous (1926): Douglas Fairbanks in The Black Pirate. In: The Film Daily, XXXV,66, Mar., p. 6. View Quote
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Anonymous (1926): Doug’s Colorful Opus. In: Motion Picture News, XXXIII,12, Mar., p. 1271. View Quote
Anonymous (1926): The Shadow Stage. A Review of the New Pictures. The Black Pirate. In: Photoplay, 29,6, p. 48. View Quote
Anonymous (1927): Farbenfilm-Kritik. Der Seeräuber. In: Die Kinotechnik, 9,3, pp. 75–76. (in German) View Quote
Barry, Iris (1926): Fairbanks Triumphant. In: The Spectator, Mar., p. 13. View Quote
Belton, John (2018): ‘Taking the Color Out of Color’. Two-Colour Technicolor, The Black Pirate, and Blackened Dyes. In: Giovanna Fossati, Victoria Jackson, Bregt Lameris, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi and Sarah Street (eds.): The Colour Fantastic. Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 97–108, on p. 99. View Quote
Clarke, Daniel B. (1926): A Mid-Year Cinematographic Review. Color. In: American Cinematographer, VII,3, Jun., p. 12. View Quote
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Hall, Mordaunt (1926): The Screen. Mr. Fairbank’s New Picture. In: The New York Times, 9 March 1926, p. 21. View Quote
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Hall, Mordaunt (1926): Fairbanks’s Pirate Film Whimsical and Beautiful. In: The New York Times, 14 March 1926, p. 5. View Quote
Pardy, George T. (1926): The Black Pirate. In: Motion Picture News, XXXIII,12, Mar., p. 1303. View Quote
Selected Analyses:
Behlmer, Rudy (1992): High Style on the High Seas. In: American Cinematographer, 73,4, pp. 34–40, on pp. 36–40. View Quote
Belton, John (2018): ‘Taking the Color Out of Color’. Two-Colour Technicolor, The Black Pirate, and Blackened Dyes. In: Giovanna Fossati, Victoria Jackson, Bregt Lameris, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi and Sarah Street (eds.): The Colour Fantastic. Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 97–108, on pp. 98–108. View Quote
Layton, James; Pierce, David (2015): The Dawn of Technicolor. Rochester: George Eastman House, on pp. 129–133. View Quote
Street, Sarah; Yumibe, Joshua (2019): Chromatic Modernity. Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s. New York: Columbia University Press, on p. 222. View Quote