There's no way to describe this 1907 film as anything less than horrifyingly awesome. I can't believe I haven't used it before. I used to show this students just to give them a sense of how utterly insane silent films could be. Enjoy?
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We haven't done a Melies film in awhile, so let's do that. Here's 1896's The Nightmare. Doesn't get much older than that! Hmmm....turns out blackface was a thing in France.
This is the grave of Marguerite Clark. Born in 1883 in Cincinnati, Helen Marguerite Clark grew up in an upwardly mobile family in Porkopolis. Her father ran a fancy haberdashery.
This is the grave of Douglas Fairbanks. Born in 1883 in Denver, Douglas Ullman grew up in a somewhat tumultuous situation. His father was a prominent lawyer and mining investor and his mother had grown up very wealthy in New Orleans but her first husband...
This is the grave of Mary Pickford. Born in 1892 in Toronto, Gladys Smith grew up in a working class family. Her father was someone who just picked up whatever.
This is the grave of William S. Hart. Born in 1864 in Newburgh, New York, Hart started working in acting in New York City in the late 1880s. The first.
This is the grave of Harold Lockwood. Born in 1887 in Brooklyn, Lockwood grew up middle class in Newark. He started his work life in the import-export business, but hated it, as one might if you were young and wanted something reasonably interesting to do....
Time to watch one of my very favorite early silent films, the 1903 film The Gay Shoe Clerk, in which a shoe salesman scores big time when his customer shows.
I always love the recovery of lost films and this story on early footage from Ireland really made me want to see the films. Hopefully I will have that opportunity..
Imagine yourself at the movies in the 1910s. By this point, there are real cinemas. You are going to go there with your family, or your friends, or your girl/boyfriend. The movies are still pretty short--usually 15 minutes or less. Sometimes you might get a...
I may have linked to this film way in the distant past, but I never have since I started the film club, so let's discuss the 1907 film The Teddy.
It's hard to put the Progressive Era more succinctly than the 1912 film The Land Beyond the Sunset, about a boy who has a terrible home life and who gets.