This site is dedicated to the preservation of memory of silent films. Although they were quite important in the evolution of cinema, they remain virtually forgotten nowadays. Since the best way to understand the present is taking an attentive look at the past, here you have some movies, pictures, interviews, etc. on silent cinema. Some occasional material on sound films will also be presented. I hope you enjoy getting to know a bit more about the beauty and sheer fun of these golden oldies.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Algie, the Miner - 1912
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 28 February 1912 (USA)
Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
Produced in 1912, this film has three directors credited which might explain its quirky jumps in scenes. Algie is played by Billy Quirk in a performance which got the film mentioned in the movie "The Celluloid Closet" which discussed gays in early movies that were otherwise straight.
A Day's Pleasure - 1919
Country: USA
Release Date: 15 December 1919 (USA)
Also Known As: A Ford Story
Director: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance
Father takes his family for a drive in their falling-apart Model T Ford, gets in trouble in traffic, and spends the day on an excursion boat. As the boat is about to leave Charlie rushes ashore for cigarettes. As he returns the boat is leaving, but a fat lady has fallen forward with feet on the dock and hands on the deck so Charlie is able rush aboard across her back.
Kohlhiesels Töchter - 1920
Country: Germany
Also Known As: Kohlhiesel's Daughters See more »
Filming Locations: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writers: Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Henny Porten, Emil Jannings and Jakob Tiedtke
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she's too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...
Mabel's Married Life - 1914
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 20 June 1914 (USA)
Also Known As: The Squarehea
Director: Charles Chaplin
Writers: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Mack Swain
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her wimpy husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk. She buys a boxing dummy hoping it will inspire her husband, but when he returns he gets in a fight with it, taking it to be the ladykiller.
Tragedy of the Dress Suit - 1912
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 15 August 1912 (USA)
Director: Mack Sennett
Writer: Mabel Normand
Stars: Dell Henderson, Mabel Normand and Edward Dillon
The Story of Jewel City (Exposition Players Corp., 1915)
Country: USA
Language: English
A short fantasy film from 1915 made, strangely, by D.W. Griffith (identified as "W.L. Griffin" in the credits), which few note as being done by him. The film is in poor condition, but is the only remaining print.
Kolozsvári némafilm-Silent movie from Kolozsvár
In Kolozsvar ( Cluj Napoca- Romania) was film factory between 1905-1920. In this studio worked Michael Curtiz, Alexander Korda and others hungarian filmmakers, actors composers. After the I. War the factory was closed. This film one of the few films wich survived the distroying.
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