A scene from the 1926 film THE MAGICIAN starring Paul Wegener as "Oliver Haddo," an occult magician based on Aleister Crowley, seen below in black. Actress Alice Terry is here introduced by Haddo to Pan during a drug hallucination sequence.

W. Somerset Maugham wrote the novel The Magician (1908) upon which this film was based; it was loosely based on the life of Aleister Crowley. (Crowley later wrote a damning review of the book, accusing Maugham of plagiarism from other occult works). (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)
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Extras pose for a costume test on the set of Max Reinhardt's 1935 adaptation of Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

The Warner Bros film featured an all-star cast, including James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander Anita Louise, Victor Jory, and Ian Hunter.
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Stolen from a FB group: An image from the hallucinatory A PAGE OF MADNESS, a silent film from 1926, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa in Japan. A Page of Madness (狂った一頁) was considered lost for 45 years until Kinugasa (re-)discovered it in a storehouse in 1971. (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)
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