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I like to watch silent movies, and then make gifs from them. Created by Don McHoull
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My video about the dangers of being a silent-movie extra is up now
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Nov. 5, 1925: "The Big Parade" premieres in Los Angeles. The WWI epic will become the blockbuster movie of the decade, generating an eye-popping gross of $6 million. It sets a standard for realism and excitement in war films and makes a major star of its lead, John Gilbert. 1/6
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King Vidor's First World War epic The Big Parade premiered 100 years ago today. It would go on to huge box office success, reportedly ranking as the second-highest-grossing film of the silent era after The Birth of a Nation
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That Night's Wife (1930) Directed by YasujirĹŤ Ozu
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Max Linder in Entente cordiale (1912)
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Faust (1926) Directed by F.W. Murnau
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“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.” -Carl Dreyer
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Häxan (1922), an early example of a horror film that was framed as a documentary
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I highly recommend the Méliès museum in Paris
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Nosferatu (1922)
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Tristan Ettleman
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Here is an excerpt of my conversation with
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for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1908. Links in quoted post!
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Really enjoyed talking about some films from 1908. If you are interested in silent film, you should really check out this podcast, I've learned a lot about the early years of cinema by listening to it
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1908 in cinema
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1908 E3 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! Don McHoull,
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, joins me to talk comedy, tricks, and drama. And he highlights a few GIF-able moments from the movies! Links 👇
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Nothing suspicious here, just Greta Garbo dropping a smoking gun. The Mysterious Lady (1928)
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Mary Pickford's Little Annie Rooney was released 100 years ago today, on Oct. 18, 1925
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Nosferatu (1922) established the convention of vampires dying from exposure to sunlight. In the novel Dracula, which Nosferatu was based on, sunlight was only an irritant to vampires
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Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. (1924)
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Le mystère de la tour Eiffel (1928) was filmed on location at the Eiffel Tower
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An interesting thing about going to a movie in Iceland is that theatres add an intermission to every film by abruptly stopping it halfway through so that people can go get a snack or use the restroom. A bit jarring when you aren’t expecting it, I thought the projector broke
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Charlie Chaplin in Work (1915)
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La Grenouille (1908) Directed by Segundo de ChomĂłn
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Heading to Spain for the rest of the month, so I may not post as frequently. Though maybe I will, after 10 years of doing this it’s become kind of a compulsion to post at least one silent movie gif a day
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It's kind of crazy how long some comic strips run for. The Katzenjammer Kids started in 1897 and ran until 2006. Barney Google started in 1919 and it's still going
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A bit off topic, but I made a video essay about Barney Google, a comic strip that started in 1919 and is somehow still running today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi5...
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The comic strip that won't die
YouTube video by Don McHoull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi5IwL3nsA&lc=UgzMmIWBVdKT3_M-gFJ4AaABAg
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Fulta Fisher's Boarding House is the first narrative film directed by Frank Capra. Capra got the job by calling up a San Francisco-based movie studio and falsely implying he had experience working in Hollywood. At the time he was working as a book salesman
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Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895
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Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895
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Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker (1916) and Modern Times (1936)
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A few of Lon Chaney's many faces
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The Paramount logo in Wings (1927) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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1907 E7 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! I use the brief season finale to wrap up some of the themes and share the five most-selected films from the guests and listeners. (Already) old-school genres reigned supreme! Links 👇
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Harold Lloyd in Get Out and Get Under (1920)
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Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers (1926)
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Beatriz Michelena was one of America's first Latina movie stars. All her films were feared lost until a print of Salomy Jane (1914) was discovered in Australia in 1996
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Colleen Moore in Why Be Good? (1929)
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The Voice of the Violin (1909) includes D.W. Griffith's hilariously inaccurate depiction of an anarchist meeting
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One of cinema's first depictions of the parting of the Red Sea. From The Life of Moses (1909)
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Buster Keaton and Bartine Burkett in The High Sign (1921)
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The Bat (1926) was believed to be lost for decades until a print was found in the 1980s
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The "Teddy" Bears (1907)
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Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925)
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Harold Lloyd's The Freshman is now 100 years old. It was Lloyd's most popular silent comedy, and one of the biggest hits of 1925, taking in $2.6 million at the box office
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I was planning to make some posts about today being the 100th anniversary of the release of The Freshman, but after doing a bit of research it seems like it actually premiered in August of 1925, contrary to what online sources like Wikipedia indicate
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Max Linder in Max Learns to Skate (1907)
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Greta Garbo was born 120 years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1905
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The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906) Directed by Georges Méliès
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Buster Keaton in The Haunted House (1921), Tom in Heavenly Puss (1949)
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Faust (1926) Directed by F.W. Murnau
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The birth of a cinematic trope? A home invader cuts a phone line in The Lonely Villa (1909)
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This gag from Fast and Furious (1924) may seem a bit familiar to silent comedy fans
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