The battle scenes for Intolerance (1916) got so out of control that after one day of filming, 67 extras required medical treatment
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
After 10 years of making GIFs from silent movies, I guess I've finally made it. I'm this month's featured GIF-creator on the Favorites Folder series from GIPHY
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Today's Family Circus is being recycled for the second time. (It originally ran in 1975, then ran again in 2016 with punchline modified)
A subreddit about newspaper comic strips such as Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Pogo, and Krazy Kat, and the history of those comics.
Movies should bring back this silent-era convention of using a three-way split screen to show a phone call, as seen here in Den hvide slavehandel (1910), directed by August Blom
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Example of The Geevum Girls from 1920, a short-lived comic strip about two teenage sisters
A subreddit about newspaper comic strips such as Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Pogo, and Krazy Kat, and the history of those comics.
The first U.S. president to be filmed was William McKinley. (Movie cameras existed during the final years of Grover Cleveland's presidency, but I guess no one could be bothered to film him)
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Borrowing gags was a common practice in silent comedies, like this example from Lupino Lane's Fool's Luck (1926) that recreates a scene from Buster Keaton's One Week (1920)
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
I made a video essay looking at the odd state of modern Family Circus
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I've become obsessed with finding example of the Family Circus editing and reusing old comics. Here are some of my favourites
A subreddit about newspaper comic strips such as Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Pogo, and Krazy Kat, and the history of those comics.
Grandma's Reading Glass (1900) offers an early example of a close-up
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Charlie Chaplin in The Circus (1928)
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Only the first reel of John Ford's The Last Outlaw (1919) is known to survive
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
More than 75 per cent of films made during the silent era are now lost. Here are fragments from a few of them
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Based on my understanding of 1920s cinematography, I think this shot of Greta Garbo from The Single Standard (1929) was done inside a studio. If so, it's impressively realistic
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Sir Arne's Treasure (1919), directed by Mauritz Stiller
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Harold Lloyd hangs up his hat in Dr. Jack (1922)
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
This is why they invented garage door openers. Lloyd Hamilton in The Simp (1921)
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Is this the first time Hagar the Horrible has been seen without his beard? He looks kind of like Cookie from Beetle Bailey
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Body and Soul (1925) was Paul Robeson's film debut. Robeson was paid $100 a week, plus three percent of the movie's gross earnings after the first $40,000 in receipts
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
The Family Circus in the 1960s, another chunk of the video essay I am working on
A subreddit about newspaper comic strips such as Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Pogo, and Krazy Kat, and the history of those comics.
This is actually one of the more dangerous things Buster Keaton did for a movie, if the locomotive had suffered a wheelspin, Keaton could have been thrown from the rod and injured or killed
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart in Chicago (1927) and Ginger Rogers as Roxie Hart in Roxie Hart (1942)
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
I've been working on a video essay about the Family Circus, here's part of what I have so far
A subreddit about newspaper comic strips such as Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Pogo, and Krazy Kat, and the history of those comics.
Twenty years before the Marx Brothers did it, French silent comedian Max Linder performed one of cinema's earliest mirror routines in La rivalité de Max (1913)
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them