Country: France
Release Date: 1897 (France)
Runtime: 0:40 sec
Production Co: Lumière
Genres: Short
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, January 6, 2012
Duel Scene, 'By Right of Sword' - 1904
Country: USA
Language: English
Stars: Ralph Stuart
Release Date: January 1904 (USA)
Filming Locations: Biograph Studio,
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Production Co: American Mutoscope &
Biograph
Runtime: 2 min
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Trivia: Ralph Stuart opened in the
melodrama "By Right of Sword" at the American Theatre on Broadway on
January 18, 1904.
Genres: Short
This film is actually an excerpt from the novel
by a chap named Marchmont in which the hero, a fellow with the heroic name of
Hamylton Tregethner attempts to dissuade a fellow soldier from insisting on a
sword duel for some unexplained offence. The other chap - whose trousers are so
tight when he turns his back to the camera it looks as if he isn't wearing any
- insists on duelling however, only to storm off in a huff after Tregethner
nicks him on the arm. Ralph Stuart cuts quite a dashing figure as the
hero.
A Tough Dance - 1902
Country: USA
Release Date: June 1902 (USA)
Filming Locations: Biograph Studios, Bronx,
New York City, New York, USA
Production co.: American Mutoscope &
Biograph Company
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Genres: Documentary | Short
Kid Foley and Sailor Lil doing the popular dance
of the Bowery in which they claim to be the champions.
Pity the Blind, No. 2 - 1904
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: February 1904 (USA)
Filming Locations: Biograph Studio,
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Production Co: American Mutoscope &
Biograph
Runtime: 1 min
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Genres: Short
A small stage has a backdrop of a city street,
sidewalks, a park, and buildings. From stage right, a boy leads a blind man
onto the stage, helps him kneel with his hat and cane in front of him. The boy
hands a sign, "pity the blind" around the man's neck and leaves. A
fellow in a bowler hat passes by, dropping a coin in the blind man's hat. Then
two well-dressed women enter, talking. They stop; one fishes a coin out of her
purse for the blind man; the other asks her friend to keep a look out for passersby,
as she lifts her skirt to adjust her garter and hose. Someone watches with
delight.
Fougere - 1899
Country: USA
Stars: Eugenie Fougere (Herself)
Release Date: November 1899 (USA)
Filming Locations: New York City, New York,
USA
Production Co: American Mutoscope &
Biograph
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Genres: Short
"The famous Parisian chanteuse in the
rag-time cakewalk 'Hello, Ma Baby,' with which she made such a sensation at the
New York Theatre."
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