#silent film

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dirty-pawprints:

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memewhore:

He tryin’

apex predator

Fun fact! Cats can’t track up-and-down movement as well as they can track side-to-side movements. It’s the pupil shape.

so what I’m understanding from this is if I get chased by a giant cat what I need to survive is a pogo stick

Вот: For me, the accursed question of all the cinephiles “Keaton or Chaplin?” has never really existed. Happy Birthday, Mr. Keaton, my old friend!

The Goat (1921)

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I didn’t feel like trying to paint all that train detail lol

The Crimson Skull, a silent film by Norman Studios, starred an all black cast. Actors Lawrence Chenault and Anita Bush star in this 1922 western. The film is believed to be lost.

You can read more about the film and Norman Studios at the Norman Studioswebsite.

(film poster found at Library of Congress)

Anna May Wong

Dirnentragodie (“Tragedy of the Street”). 1927. Josef Fenneker.

36 ½ x 72 1/8 in./92.7 x 183.2 cm

You can already see, in this riveting two-sheet poster, why the Danish actress Asta Nielsen was the first international star of silent film: the large dark eyes, a haunted face, her boyish figure. She often portrayed headstrong, passionate women trapped by tragic circumstances: transforming this melodramatic trope with naturalism and overt eroticism – leading her films to be heavily censored in the U.S. “Dirnentragodie,” or ‘Tragedy of the Street,’ was Nielsen’s final silent role. The film epitomizes the Weimar movement called The New Objectivity, which tried to create a middle ground between Brechtian alienation and Expressionist emotionalism by forcing middle-class characters into the oppressive social circumstances of the street. “Dirnentragodie” features Nielsen as an aging prostitute who takes in a young man running away from his middle-class family. She fantasizes about a different future; the man returns to his family; she’s accused of murdering her pimp. This 1927 Fenneker design was used for the release of the film in Vienna.

Mary Philbin, 1925

WickedTheda Bara, vamp.

Gothic Vamp Musidora(top gif) stars as Irma Vep in the French silent crime serial Les Vampires (1915-17), written and directed by Louis Feuillade.

An Unseen Enemy (1912) short film from Biograph Company directed by D. W. Griffith.

This represents the debut in motion pictures of the legendary sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish.

thewisecrackingstwenties:

Top Box Office hits from the Silent Era (1913-1929) when silent films became long features, not just flicks or one reelers anymore, all the way to the mega productions.

PART I DECADE OF THE 1910s

• 1913:Traffic in Souls 
  
• 1914:The Million Dollar Mystery 
  
• 1915: The Birth of a Nation 
  
• 1916: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 
  
• 1917: A Romance of the RedwoodsandCleopatra (lost film) 
  
• 1918:Mickey 
  
• 1919:The Miracle Man 
  

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Vera Reynolds

The Road to Yesterday, 1925

greyelven:

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari dir. Robert Wiene (1920)

thewisecrackingtwenties:

Max Schreck as Count Orlok, resting, on the set of Nosferatu (1922) directed by F. W. Murnau.

thewisecrackingtwenties:

Impressive architecture in Metropolis (1927) directed by Fritz Lang

It might seem incredible, but upon release, the film`s plot was called “silly” or “too simplistic”.

Eiko Minami as the dancer in the 1926 Japanese film ‘A Page of Madness’ directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.