Transition to Silent Film
Coming straight off the scenes of Vaudeville and Broadway, a new era of silent film was on the way. In 1914, Fairbanks was on a stroll through a park when he was stopped by someone with a camera asking for Fairbanks to do a silly trick for the camera. Later, that picture was quickly passed around to Harry E. Aitken the founder of the Triangle Flim Corporation (Vance, 22). With that one picture of versatility and character, Aitken offered him a spot in one of his upcoming motion pictures.
Transitioning into this new era, the new talk of cinema was frowned upon by theater supporters. This new age of acting offered actors like Fairbanks a mild diversion of work until a new Broadway show would come back into town. It offered a new place for Fairbanks to show off his personality and physical comedy but on the big screen. This for Fairbanks wasn't just a wait for the new big gig, it was a new opportunity to go further into restless energy of practicing his acting differently.
So with that Fairbanks set forth on a new journey moving to Hollywood in 1915, to be the next big thing in the motion picture. When arriving, set foot in Aitken’s business partners Griffth studio called the Fine Arts Flim Company. This film company would help Douglas Fairbanks's first starring motion picture, “The Lamb” (1915).
