#gilbert fox

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Dallas Mayo (aka Gilbert Fox) Sorority Scandal; Carol Caine - The Secret Flesh - Midwood - 1968

[luthienne]

jack gilbert, “islands and figs” / richard siken, “the worm king’s lullaby”

[girl-named-matty]

A group photo with a bunch of our babies 🥺I wasn't able to fit everyone I wanted so pls lmk if you want your mc to be included in another one sometime! Creators of the MCs in the comments! And more down below!

[kratosfilms]

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[anira-naeg]

Garth Greenhand and his sons and daughters

[ironmyrmidon]

More artists should be like Toby Fox and use the same characters in multiple stories.

Oh wait.

[skiddlebats]

Thought I’d share a little stand-alone comic set in my Furryverse: Symbiotic Lives :]

Also on AO3

[rabbitcruiser]

Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John’s on August 5, 1583.  

[danidrawsstuff]

A3 Prussia, idk why but it makes me imagine him when young having to come to terms with his first killing of another human being and possible violation of "Thou shalt not murder"

request some bloody babes ( not accepting ! )

and, michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime

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[sisyphethedreamwalker]

Scully and Mulder fancam/animatic but its backed by Tom Cardy/BDG's "Beautiful Mind" Is this anything...

[tvdlover101]

The Delena x EvaJacks pipeline is so serious to me. I want to make a fan video,

[nyhne]

Last Six Sentences

Write the last six sentences you wrote and tag your mutuals to do the same!

Tagged by @lithugraph and believe it or not I actually started working on a fic again a few weeks ago so could actually fulfill this :x

The first time is just a fleeting glance–and for some reason Gilbert has the feeling that he was not meant to catch his observer in the act at all, that the creature’s apparition is a mistake. Gilbert is in the middle of cutting some wood, bent over his sawhorse with sweat beading on his brow, when he happens to look up and there it is: just a tease of a handsome, dark-furred face watching him through the trees. Gilbert blinks in surprise and puts down his handsaw, Fritz and Sophie already keening in pointed-ear excitement by his side (they were getting slow in their old age, he’d noticed).

But as soon as he makes a move, the fox is gone, Gilbert nearly missing the flash of dark bushy tail before the understory is still again, and the feeling of being watched disappears.

“Huh,” Gilbert says. And on the first instance that he sees him, he leaves it at that.

Tagging @puella-peanut @lordsardine @smileinthedark

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Lost, but Not Forgotten: The Madness of Youth (1923)

Direction: Jerome Storm

Scenario: Joseph Franklin Poland

Original Story: George F. Worts

Camera: Joseph August

Studio: First National Fox (production) & (distribution)

Performers: John Gilbert, Billie Dove, Wilton Taylor, George K. Arthur, Ruth Boyd, Julanne Johnston, Donald Hatswell, Luke Lucas, Dorothy Manners (potentially miscredited as Louise/The Dancer)

Premiere: 8 April 1923

Status: presumed entirely lost

Length: 4,719 feet, or roughly 51 minutes.

Synopsis (synthesized from magazine summaries of the plot)

A sophisticated, young gentleman, Jaca Javalie (Gilbert), is travelling on a cross-country train to California. As Javalie traverses the smoking car, it’s apparent he’s being tailed by a detective. However, somewhere between the smoker and the pullman, the detective loses the trail—as if Javalie had disappeared into thin air. 

Later, out from the ditch beside the railroad, Javalie emerges—dressed now in tatters, a bindle stick slung over his shoulder. Javalie makes his way on foot to the California mansion of the Banning family. 

Within the estate, the patriarch, Theodore P. Banning (Taylor), has built a private vault to secure his millions after being burned by bank failures in the past. 

Banning’s children, Ted (Arthur) and Nanette, a.k.a. Nan (Dove), are now young adults and, though he loves them, he knows they’ve been spoiled rotten. Ted is selfish and unfeeling. He had brought home from France a wife, Jeanne (Boyd), but has since made her life miserable. Nan spends every night out gallivanting with the caddish mooch, Pete Reynolds (Hatswell), currently staying at the Banning’s as a guest.

Banning found comfort only in spiritualism—often communing from beyond the grave with his wife.

Javalie makes his entrance in the middle of another family quarrel. He presents himself to Banning, Sr. as a man with mystical powers, which he learned in India. He claims that has come to the Banning home after visions of their familial strife, sure that he can bring them peace. Banning agrees to let Javalie stay a while. Something about Javalie’s manner has a quick effect on the younger Bannings, who begin acting with a bit more reverence and grace. At dinner, Javalie lays his mysticism spiel on a receptive audience, save for the guest, Reynolds. 

George K. Arthur, John Gilbert, Billie Dove, Ruth Boyd, and Wilton Taylor in The Madness of Youth from Motion Picture Classic, June 1923

Later, the Bannings throw a lavish masquerade ball with the theme “winter frolic.” At the ball, Nan gets Javalie alone and says she doubts his supernatural gifts. He assures her he isn’t trying to fool her, and she takes that as flirting. The gentleman thief Javalie is softening. 

Next, Jeanne approaches Javalie and pleads with him to save her husband from the temptation of a dancer hired for the ball, who has a reputation as a vampire.

Ruth Boyd, George K. Arthur, John Gilbert, and Julanne Johnston in The Madness of Youth from Motion Picture Classic, June 1923

Javalie and Nan take a walk through the garden and she teasingly goads him into an embrace. Pleased with her machinations, Nan flutters away. 

Now left alone in the garden, Javalie is greeted by the dancer. Under her mask is a familiar face, Louise (Johnston), Javalie’s ex-girlfriend. Louise threatens to expose him to the Bannings. Javalie reveals that he’s been planning to rob the Banning vault for three years. Louise agrees to publicly play-act that Javalie has saved her soul in exchange for a cut of the loot and Javalie’s hand in marriage. Javalie preaches to the crowd of attendees and, on cue, Louise repents. Jeanne and Ted reconcile.

After the party, Javalie finds Banning alone in his library. Javalie hypnotizes Banning and gets him to reveal the location of and combination for the vault. The two men were not alone however: Reynolds had been eavesdropping. Reynolds confronts Javalie and extorts him.

John Gilbert and Wilton Taylor in The Madness of Youth from Motion Picture Classic, June 1923

The next day, inspired by Javalie’s preaching, Ted and Jeanne decide to start again on their own. Banning happily offers to build them a home. Javalie is shaken by a note from Louise saying that his preaching worked better than expected and she did, in fact, feel reformed and was off to make amends with her family.

Disturbed by Louise’s actions, Javalie defiantly steels himself and heads to the vault, combination in hand. However, when Javalie reaches the vault door, he’s overwhelmed and faints. When he comes to, Javalie is surrounded by the Bannings. Ted plans to call the police. Nan holds Javalie close and begs for mercy through tears, claiming that Javalie must have had a change of heart just as they all had. Jeanne backs her up. Seeing Nan and Javalie together, Banning says he understands and the police are not called.

John Gilbert, Billie Dove, and Wilton Taylor in The Madness of Youth from Motion Picture Classic, June 1923

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Points of Interest:

John Gilbert appeared in an astounding 90 silent films in his career from bit roles to starring roles and he even dabbled in writing and directing. While Gilbert had already worked on over 60 films by the time Madness of Youth came around, he was newly minted as a star just two years prior when he signed with Fox Film Corp. Gilbert would truly break out as a star when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924. Of those 90 silent films, 58 are considered lost films, which means that only 35% of Gilbert’s film work is known to survive today.

Madness of Youth is one of many films believed to be lost after the 1937 Fox vault fire. In the summer of 1937 at the Fox vault in Little Ferry, NJ a fire broke out that destroyed a majority of films produced by Fox before 1932 as well as films from other studios, most notably Educational Pictures. The fire also killed a child in a neighboring building. All in one night, thousands of films were lost, leaving a gaping hole in our film heritage.

from Motion Picture News, 7 April 1923 and Exhibitors Trade Review, 28 April 1923

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[m-jay-gee]

the realisation that i have a weird music taste compared to the average person my age is actually world shattering