Motion Picture News April 10, 1920
This image can also be found on page 110 of Disappearing Tricks – Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century by Matthew Solomon.
Tomorrow we look at the front of another color insert.
Motion Picture News April 3, 1920
Tomorrow we will look at an incredible two-page advertisement that illustrates a few of the big scenes in Terror Island.
Last week we looked at full color advertising inserts that were published in the magic magazine M-U-M to accompany the release of The Grim Game.
This week, I thought we look at the full color advertising inserts that were published in Motion Picture News to accompany the release of Terror Island in April 1920.
Each Day this week (Sunday to Saturday), I will post a different color advertisement for Terror Island – Not a Serial!
Motion Picture News April 3, 1920
Tomorrow, we will see the flip side of this insert.
Magicians interest in the movies was spurred by special promotion of The Grim Game for the magic community. Full-color four-page advertising inserts were published in the magic magazine M-U-M to accompany the release of The Grim Game [August 1919 pages 17-20 and September 1919 pages 29-32]. A special screening of the film was arranged for the Society of American Magicians (SAM), which gave The Grim Game its official endorsement and pledged that its members would help promote the film around the country [Sphinx September 1919 page 162].
At the 1919 SAM screening of The Grim Game, Thurston gave a speech in which he pronounced the film “one of the most wonderful things I have ever seen” and called it Houdini’s “greatest work” [quoted in Sphinx September 1919 page 162].
Houdini followed up The Grim Game with a second feature for Famous Players-Lasky entitled Terror Island. There was also some spectacular ads that accompanied the release of Terror Island in April 1920, that we will take a look at next week.
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Before relocating to Hollywood to fulfill a contract with Famous Players-Lasky, Houdini wrote: “I am drifting away from vaudeville, and with the exception of my European dates have no plans re[garding] a return”
Once he had filled these European dates [Sailed Dec 30, 1919 from New York City to Britain] and returned to the United States [July 12, 1920], Houdini stopped performing in theatres for more than a year-and-a-half while attempting to launch his own independent film production company, the Houdini Picture Corporation
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This is positively a photographic reproduction of a genuine frame cut-out from the film, The Man From Beyond. 
[Exhibitor’s Trade Review Volume 11 Number 17]
These are stunt dummies going over the falls, possibly shot as part of an alternative ending in case of disaster.
In the actual ending of the movie, the shots of the canoe going over the falls are dummy-free.
The Man From Beyond is a great heart-throb, mystery, love story in which Houdini is shown going to the edge of Niagara Falls to rescue the girl.
Related Posts with some amazing photos from the John C. Hinson Collection and Kevin Connolly Collection:
Was Tony Curtis’ 1953 Houdini or Adrien Brody’s 2014 Houdini miniseries the first biopic to acknowledge Houdini’s film career? Let’s look at the evidence: 
The Tony Curtis film originally was going to feature a recreation of Houdini’s death defying plane to plane mid-air transfer and wing walk from his 1919 film, The Grim Game. This is significant in that all the movies so far made about Houdini’s life and career have ignored his stint as a silent movie star in Hollywood. But here is evidence that the 1953 film did not ignore this aspect of Houdini’s life. It just wound up on the cutting room floor. My question is, where is this footage today? [John Cox]
In 2012, I went in search of the lost plane to plane transfer and discovered some interesting things about the Tony Curtis movie. Click on the link above.
Well in the Houdini miniseries, the footage did not end up on the cutting room floor. We see Houdini (Adrien Brody) and Bess (Kristen Connolly) sitting in a theater watching actual clips from the 1919 movie, The Grim Game, along with some shots of Adrien Brody hanging from a rope of one of the planes. 
Brody makes the following comment: “I’m on the ground the whole time; it’s fake. It’s all Hollywood”. Connolly says: “Look at the bright side Harry, it’s good publicity for the real thing”. 
As it turns out, Houdini was on the ground the whole time, while his stunt double, Lieutenant Robert E. Kennedy, hung from a rope and attempted to perform the plane-to plane descent before the planes collided in mid-air and came crashing down to the ground. 
The 1953 Houdini movie did not ignore this aspect of Houdini’s career, but the 2014 History’s Houdini miniseries is the first to actually portray it on the final product.