100 years ago today, D.W. Griffith showed his racist epic film "Birth of a Nation" at a private White House screening for President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson called it "history written with lightning," and said lightning strike sparked the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, which...
silent film
In class today, I was very pleased to expose another classroom of students to the amazing film Where Are My Children, from 1916. This pro-birth control, anti-abortion film (the two.
It is my birthday. I am now 41 with the personality of an 80 year old and the back of a 60 year old (as the snow has reminded me)..
Like most of you, I spend my Saturday nights watching silent films. Title cards like this one from Children of Eve are one reason. It's almost as if directors from 100 years ago are speaking to me from the grave. ...This title card is followed...
Super cool: Hidden for more than 90 years beneath the rolling sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, an enormous, plaster sphinx from the 1923 blockbuster movie "The Ten Commandments" has been.
I rarely put forth or publicize online petitions but I will make an exception here. The oldest standing monument to the film industry is falling apart and needs preservation before.
I turn my book into my editor in 36 hours. I am delirious. The only thing keeping me going is The Gay Shoe Clerk. Ankle. Hot.
Georges Méliès, The Doctor and the Monkey, 1900
This week, Méliès Monday brings you 1908's The Grandmother's Story.
Some late Georges Méliès this week, from 1912
Georges Méliès, The Christmas Dream, from 1900.
Georges Méliès, The Haunted Castle, from 1896.