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, March 23, 2012
Ella Cinders - 1926
Country: United States
Director: Alfred E. Green
Writers: Mervyn Leroy (story) and
Frank Griffin (story); Mervyn Leroy (scenario) and Frank Griffin (scenario);
George Marion Jr. (titles); William M. Conselman (comic strip) and Charles
Plumb (comic strip)
Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd
Hughes and Vera Lewis
Release Date: 6 June 1926 (USA)
Production Co: John McCormick
Productions
Runtime: USA: 75 min | USA: 60 min (edited version)
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Plot Keywords: Winner | Beauty
Contest | Desert | Judge | Iceman
| Stepsister | Indian | Movie
Location | 1920s | Movie Director | Based On Comic Strip | Cinderella | Fire |
Wealthy | Silent Film Star | Movie Studio | California | Based On Comic |
Cigarette Smoking | Contestant | Photograph | Football Player | Father Son
Relationship | Jazz Age |
Arizona | Hollywood Agent |
Actress | Wicked Stepmother | Character Name In Title
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused
by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest
she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood,
where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she
discoves that the contest was a scam and the job non-existant. But through pluck,
luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
Connections
Featured in Hollywood: Single Beds and Double
Standards Clip with Moore as aspiring actress; Hollywood; Hollywood: Trick of
the Light clip shown; Special Effects: Anything Can Happen; Lost Forever Clips
from this film are shown in Lost Forever.
His Majesty The Scarecrow Of Oz - 1914
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: L. Frank Baum
Writers: L. Frank Baum (novels),
L. Frank Baum (screenplay)
Stars: Violet MacMillan, Frank
Moore and Pierre Couderc
Release Date: 14 October 1914
(USA)
Also known as: Óz madárijesztője
(Hungary); His Majesty, the Scarecrow (USA - review title); The New Wizard of
Oz (USA - new title); The Scarecrow of Oz (USA
- alternative title); The Wizard of Oz (USA - promotional title)
Production Co: Oz Film
Manufacturing Company, The
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Plot Keywords: Princess | Love |
Scarecrow | King | Kangaroo | Girl |
Battle | Cornfield | Witch | Wizard | Wagon | Anthropomorphic Scarecrow |
Double Exposure Effects | Adaptation Directed By Original Author | Underwater
Scene | Animal Costume | Tin Man | Swordfish | Mermaid | Kidnapping | Barrel |
Character Feels Around For Missing Head |
Magic Spell | Crow | Donkey |
Rich Poor | Can | Decapitation | Sequel | Based On Novel
Taglines: The Oz Film Company
presents L. Frank Baum's famous comedy
Genres: Family | Fantasy |
Adventure | Comedy
A wicked king has taken over the
Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid
courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera
follows two farmers placing a Scarecrow upon a pole in a cornfield. Pon rescues
a Kansas girl named Dorothy from the evil witch Mombi, whom Princess Gloria has
been taken to by King Krewl to freeze her heart so she will no longer love Pon.
An Indian princess has a ceremony to bring the Scarecrow to life. Pon rescues
the cold-hearted princess and they flee for help, discovering the Scarecrow,
who promptly falls in love with the princess, and Button-Bright, a lost boy
from America. They come to the castle of the Tin Emperor, Nick Chopper, and
after oiling him, he falls in love with Gloria. After a bit of a chase aided by
the Sawhorse and the Wizard, Mombi turns Pon into a Kangaroo, and a slough of
Fred Woodward's animals battle it out.
Connections
Featured in Wiz on Down the Road;
The Whimsical World of Oz A scene from this film is shown; The Hollywood Road
to Oz; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic;
In Search of Oz; Oz: The American
Fairyland; The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond footage shown
Follows The Patchwork Girl of Oz;
The Magic Cloak
Referenced in The Wizard of Oz;
Aysecik ve sihirli cüceler rüyalar ülkesinde; Return to Oz
The Magic Cloak - 1914
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: J. Farrell MacDonald
Writers: L. Frank Baum (novel),
L. Frank Baum (screenplay)
Stars: Mildred Harris, Violet
MacMillan and Fred Woodward
Release Date: 28 September 1914
(USA)
Also Known As: The Magic Cloak of
Oz (USA - alternative title), The Witch Queen (UK - cut version)
Filming Locations: Oz Film
Manufacturing Company Studios - Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles,
California, USA
Production Co: Oz Film
Manufacturing Company, The
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Plot Keywords: Cloak | Queen |
Wish | King | Tiger | Lion | Magic |
Robbers | Fairy | Mule | Princess | Monkey | Invader | Donkey | Animal Costume
| Fighting | Fantasy Land | Maid | Happy Ending | Sequel | Double Exposure Effects
| Fairy Tale | Kingdom | Crow | Based On Novel
Genres: Short | Adventure |
Family | Fantasy
The fairies of Oz gather in the
forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one
wish, so long as it has not been stolen. The man in the moon tells them that
their messenger should give it to the first miserable person she sees. Two
children, Fluff and her younger brother "Bud" (a child's attempt at
"brother," which stuck), have just lost their father and are taken by
Aunt Rivette to live in Nole, the capital city of Noland, where the king has
just died without heir. The messenger gives Fluff the cloak, who wishes to be
happy again, while a legal loophole places Bud on the throne, and they empty
the treasury to buy toys. Their pet mule Nickodemus is captured by robbers and
puts together a small animal army (including the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry
Tiger, the Lonesome Zoop, the Woozy, and others) to battle the Rolly Rogues
that have invaded the city...
Connections
Featured in Like Babes in the Woods; The Hollywood Road
to Oz; Oz: The American Fairyland
Followed by The New Wizard of Oz
Follows The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Referenced in The Church
References A Trip to the
Moon
Broncho Billy's Fatal Joke - 1914
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho
Billy' Anderson
Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy'
Anderson, Carl Stockdale and Marguerite Clayton
Release Date: 8 August 1914 (USA)
Filming Locations: Niles,
California, USA
Production Co: Essanay Film
Manufacturing Company, The
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Plot Keywords: Directed By Star |
Broncho Billy | Character Name In Title
Genres: Short | Western
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