Georges Méliès, The Haunted Castle, from 1896.
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It seems a good Monday evening tradition here would be to show a Georges Méliès film. After all, he only directed 553 films, according to IMDB. Plus, their weirdness and.
D.W. Griffith's 1909 film about how much it sucked when Progressive Era women with gargantuan hats sat in front of you at the theater.
I just realized that somehow I never posted The Teddy Bears here before. Imagine a silent movie version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with Teddy Roosevelt coming in at the end for an, um, disturbing ending. And some early version claymation bears. And the...
May your Saturday night be like Harold Lloyd standing on his head, risking his life for a stunt.
Someone brought this up in comments a few months ago but I never posted what is by far the greatest traffic safety film ever made. The great stuff is in.
I had a bit of a silent comedy fest last night. I watched Just Neighbors with Harold Lloyd, Hustling for Health with Stan Laurel, and Kid Auto Races at Venice, Calif., with Charlie Chaplin. A few notes: 1. I liked Just Neighbors the least and...
Geoffrey O'Brien has a great essay on silent films in the New York Review of Books. A very small selection: The seduction of silent cinema is the seduction of a.
The last structure from the early New York film industry is in trouble. The old Vitagraph studio lot in Brooklyn is long gone, but its smokestack remains. It is falling.
Given the day's rather bizarre turn here, it seems like a good enough time to remind all of you with Netflix account that Traffic in Souls, the ridiculous 1913 film promoting the white slavery fears dominant in America during these years, is available for streaming....