Image: Douglas Fairbanks, Enid Bennett, and Wallace Beery listening to radio

Description: Publicity photo of silent film stars Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett, and Douglas Fairbanks (l to r), in costume for the 1922 film Robin Hood, listening to the horn loudspeaker of a radio in 1923. Radio broadcasting began in 1920 and immediately became very popular; a fascinating new high-tech entertainment in the Roaring 20s. The motion picture industry used radio to promote studio stars such as these. Caption:"If Richard Coeur de Lion had heard a radio would he have looked like that? And Maid Marian made eyes at it? And Robin Hood listened or shot an arrow at it? Anyhow, this is how Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett, and Douglas Fairbanks in those roles lined up before a loud speaker that evidently isn't as loud as it is big - or we hope so, anyway." Alterations to image: Removed aliasing artifacts (crosshatched lines) introduced during scanning of original halftone photo using Gimp FFT filter.
Title: Douglas Fairbanks, Enid Bennett, and Wallace Beery listening to radio
Credit: Retrieved March 26, 2013 from The Wireless Age", The Wireless Publishing Co., New York, Vol. 10, No. 6, March, 1923, p. 21 on Google Books
Author: Unknown
Permission: This 1923 issue of The Wireless Age magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1951. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. [1] Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1950, 1951 and 1952 show no renewal entries for The Wireless Age. Therefore the magazine's copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
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License: Public domain
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