Silent Movie GIFs
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I like to watch silent movies, and then make gifs from them. Created by @dmchoull
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2015
In 1924, director D.W. Griffith offered his predictions of what movies would be like in 2024. I look at some of those predictions in this video essay, to see what he got right (in-flight movies) and where he was totally off-base (movies still being silent).
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Charlie Chaplin might have looked like he was in danger of falling over a ledge in Modern Times, but the shot was actually achieved using a matte painting.(Animation from a making of documentary on the Criterion edition of Modern Times)
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Buster Keaton was born 127 years ago today, on Oct. 4, 1895
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For this famous scene in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick took a bit of inspiration from the silent era. (The Phantom Carriage 1921 and Broken Blossoms 1919)
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For this famous scene in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick took a bit of inspiration from the silent era. (The Phantom Carriage 1921 and Broken Blossoms 1919)
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Between the 1890s and the 1930s, staged train crashes were a popular attraction throughout the United States. Tens of thousands of people would gather to watch two old trains be smashed into each other
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The influence of Buster Keaton's most famous stunt
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Metropolis (1927) is now in the public domain in the United States. (In the European Union it will remain under copyright until 2046)
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The influence of Buster Keaton's most famous stunt
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Silent movies did some pretty wild things with trains
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Buster Keaton was born 128 years ago today, on October 4, 1895
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How a background was added to a shot from Modern Times using a glass matte painting shot
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Buster Keaton was born 127 years ago today, on Oct. 4, 1895
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One Week, Buster Keaton's first short film, was released 100 years ago today, on Sept. 1, 1920
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Georges Méliès was born 163 years ago today, on December 8, 1861
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Silent movies did some pretty wild things with trains
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The Infernal Cave (1905) .Directed by Gaston Velle
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Shots from silent films that were inspired by paintings
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Happy New Year, Wings (1927) is now in the public domain in the United States
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Buster Keaton's The Haunted House was released 100 years ago today, on February 10, 1921
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The Schüfftan process is one of the coolest visual effects techniques from the silent era. By using a mirror with part of its reflective surface removed, model sets could be made to look full-sized, as in this example from Metropolis (1927)
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This fourth-wall-breaking gag from Buster Keaton's One Week is now 100 years old
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Buster Keaton in The Bell Boy, which was released 100 years ago today, on March 18, 1918. Still a brilliant gag a century later
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Buster Keaton was born 126 years ago today, on Oct. 4, 1895
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How this famous tracking shot from Wings (1927) was filmed
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Mabel Normand in Won in a Closet (1914). This was thought to be a lost film until a print was discovered in 2010
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A trick of perspective was used to film parts of Harold Lloyd's famous climb in Safety Last! (1923).(Clip from the documentary Locations and Effects, which is one of the many extras on the Criterion release of Safety Last!)
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The influence of German Expressionist cinema on classic Disney animated films:.Faust (1926) Fantasia (1940)
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Cinema pioneer Georges Méliès was born 162 years ago today, on December 8, 1861
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This shot from Buster Keaton's The General cost $42,000 in 1926, roughly $600,000 adjusted for inflation. It is often described as the most expensive shot of the silent era
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Silent movies did some pretty wild things with cars
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The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) is today believed to be a lost film. The only part of the movie known to still exist is this brief montage sequence created by Slavko Vorkapić
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No one in a silent comedy ever lights their cigarette in a normal way
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It's hard to believe that Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. is now 100 years old. This sequence is still astonishing a century later
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The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907) .Directed by Georges Méliès
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Charlie Chaplin might have looked like he was in danger of falling over a ledge in Modern Times, but the shot was actually achieved using a matte painting.(Animation from a making of documentary on the Criterion edition of Modern Times)
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One of the great tracking shots of the silent era, from F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927)
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Shots from silent films that were inspired by paintings
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100 years after Sherlock Jr. was released and people are still perplexed about how Buster Keaton did this
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was released 100 years ago today, on February 26, 1920
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A good illustration of how the Schüfftan process was used in Metropolis. Actors were filmed through a mirror reflecting a miniature set
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For Charlie Chaplin's birthday, my compilation of some of his best cane gags
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More than 75 per cent of films made during the silent era are now lost. Here are fragments from a few of them
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Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! was released 100 years ago today, giving us one of the most famous images of the silent era
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Buster Keaton's film-making philosophy: "I always want the audience to out-guess me, and then I double-cross them.".(One Week 1920)
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Not a silent movie, but in Foreign Correspondent (1940) Alfred Hitchcock made brilliant use of rear-projection to film a plane crash. Footage of a stunt plane diving towards the ocean was projected on a rice paper screen, then water was released, which smashed through the paper
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The Schüfftan process is one of the coolest visual effects techniques from the silent era. By using a mirror with part of its reflective surface removed, model sets could be made to look full-sized, as in this example from Metropolis (1927)
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Buster Keaton was born 128 years ago today, on October 4, 1895
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Happy New Year, the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons are finally in the public domain
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L'Inferno (1911).Directed by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan and Giuseppe De Liguoro
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Comparing Cecil B. DeMille's silent 1923 version of The Ten Commandments with his 1956 remake
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More than 75 per cent of films made during the silent era are now lost. Here are fragments from a few of them
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Some famous scenes from silent films, colorized using AI
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How Buster Keaton made it look like he was hanging off a cliff in Our Hospitality (1923)
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Having a character hanging off the side of a cliff is one of the oldest cliches in cinema, but look at how Abel Gance depicted it in La Roue (1923)
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Director F.W. Murnau was born 135 years ago today, on Dec. 28, 1888
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Silent movies did some pretty wild things with cars
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Buster Keaton breaking the fourth wall in 1920.(Sybil Seely in One Week)
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Le Voyage sur Jupiter (1909).Directed by Segundo de Chomón
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The first Academy Awards ceremony was held 90 years ago today, on May 16, 1929. Wings won the award for Outstanding Picture
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Kathryn Boyd in The Flying Ace (1926), which is the only surviving film from the Florida-based Norman Studios, which made silent films with all African-American casts
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I figured out how to do something with Premiere Pro
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Movie theatres in the 1920s could be pretty spectacular
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I always find it interesting to hear what silent film stars sounded like. Some sound how I'd expect, others are a bit surprising
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Director Fritz Lang was born 133 years ago today, on December 5, 1890
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror premiered 100 years ago today, on March 4, 1922
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A trick of perspective was used to film parts of Harold Lloyd's famous climb in Safety Last! (1923).(Clip from the documentary Locations and Effects, which is one of the many extras on the Criterion release of Safety Last!)
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Painter Francis Bacon was fascinated by this shot from Battleship Potemkin (1925), and referenced it in his own work, including Study for the Nurse from the Battleship Potemkin (1957)
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Buster Keaton gets rejected by a hatcheck girl without a word being spoken in Seven Chances (1925)
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This poster for John Wick 2 seems like an homage to this promotional photo for the 1920 Harold Lloyd film An Eastern Westerner
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L'Inferno (1911), the first full-length Italian feature film
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Fritz Lang cited the skyscrapers of New York City as an inspiration for the look of the city in Metropolis (1927)
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