Minute Movies

This Sunday strip by Whealan presents a series of rapid-fire gags advertising Essaides' new 'Minute Movies' program—serials, dramas, comedies, and animated cartoons shown in single reels. The comic uses the newspaper page itself as a promotional device, with panels mimicking film frames and promotional announcements integrated into the narrative flow. Early movie advertisements often appeared in comic strips, blending entertainment with commerce. The strip demonstrates how newspaper comics and film culture cross-pollinated in the 1920s, both competing for the same audience and sharing visual conventions of sequential storytelling.