English: American actor Walter Hiers shown putting on blackface for a role. The caption states that he "believed in being realistic" so "he hired a model." The American film industry commonly used white actors in blackface until the end of the 1930s. On page 56 of the December 1922 Screenland. From another use of this image, the film was identified as the American comedy horror film The Ghost Breaker (1922) where Hiers played 'Rusty Snow'.