tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68894664221262824512024-03-06T14:59:52.750-05:00Silent WierdnessSilent Strangeness and More (and yes it's spelled wrong on purpose)Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.comBlogger1083125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-82504885867162872532022-10-31T03:00:00.001-04:002022-10-31T03:00:00.232-04:00HAPPY HALLOWEEN! <p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQvAvIDtdipHHN6o_7fNpkT6kESZm2wMZWlokuXx_jCc1BE-ggG5Wz9TCsWmjcDujU3PDr6q0slgfYAagQavf8KGd5OUnZXvqxqIez_OUUYsK4m15NnxR8LseqoJsyJhG8oIfu-SJbKJyX3owCptds93f0IQtyJ7bQcRvdCJ12M5yveNHFnGVdH6E7ww/s500/c793f9eed21130d6f3d2b55c4786f5d0.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="500" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQvAvIDtdipHHN6o_7fNpkT6kESZm2wMZWlokuXx_jCc1BE-ggG5Wz9TCsWmjcDujU3PDr6q0slgfYAagQavf8KGd5OUnZXvqxqIez_OUUYsK4m15NnxR8LseqoJsyJhG8oIfu-SJbKJyX3owCptds93f0IQtyJ7bQcRvdCJ12M5yveNHFnGVdH6E7ww/w640-h516/c793f9eed21130d6f3d2b55c4786f5d0.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-80224022902854234482022-10-31T01:00:00.001-04:002022-10-31T01:00:00.243-04:00October 31: The Scarlet Crystal (1917)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNR116RCd5U-Zne2kG9Xz2MoTQKTSF7jaKfjO-QvL3IOADOyAipc0Drp0ZWydI64Fz0BKyRrHQBbrWKG08f4B1yCgUZZ-n_5TPqM96Tj2om2KBmviKcBqstQLbalnrG9mHkkB9DtKrJYUnf9MTg4Bb5BMELX41hCfWgZu24iCgoGD9b7EaIhashA3jnw/s1373/MV5BNWQwNjMwZWMtYmNkYy00NmM5LWIzMDUtYTUyYWNjMWNiMDIwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjA5MTAzODY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1373" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNR116RCd5U-Zne2kG9Xz2MoTQKTSF7jaKfjO-QvL3IOADOyAipc0Drp0ZWydI64Fz0BKyRrHQBbrWKG08f4B1yCgUZZ-n_5TPqM96Tj2om2KBmviKcBqstQLbalnrG9mHkkB9DtKrJYUnf9MTg4Bb5BMELX41hCfWgZu24iCgoGD9b7EaIhashA3jnw/w466-h640/MV5BNWQwNjMwZWMtYmNkYy00NmM5LWIzMDUtYTUyYWNjMWNiMDIwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjA5MTAzODY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-1.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Scarlet Crystal </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">was a crime drama with supernatural elements. The titular crystal hails from ancient Egypt and allows a gazer to see visions of the future, or rather future </span>horrible<span style="font-family: inherit;"> harm and violence. Several of the characters experience the visions, the most </span>intense<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of which happens to Vincent Morgan (Herbert Rawlinson). The visions of horror that he sees involve the harm to Peggy Worth (Betty Schade) and her invalid mother. The fore-warning allows Vincent to wholly avoid the dreaded outcome and insure the </span>safety<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of both Peggy and her mother. The film </span>apparently<span style="font-family: inherit;"> sported a special "</span>crystal<span style="font-family: inherit;"> vision" effect. Though it wasn't the first film that "framed" visions and thoughts in a visual fashion, it had to be one of the earliest to create a an effect that conveyed </span>visually<span style="font-family: inherit;"> (instead providing an explanation on title cards) a special movable cue to indicate an supernatural event was taking place. Though not the star of the film, the most well known member of the cast was Dorothy Davenport. From the </span>famous<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Davenport theatrical family; she was just as likely to be credited as "Mrs. Wallace Reid" during this time. She would go on to be one of the only female film producers in Hollywood in the 1930's. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0qqoKybpLeEAl0UvyH1KWscXrbJ6lq-pkZ1LcmRBXFMzHH-4YliAL5VLQrvKn9SWp18mZe6oiVQ9Auz9bXmGzgjyPGHM8teiNUauiaGKknsHeynuQ4sKgJDoN8MUrRjEm5EYt6dFqCOCg4mLewx1eqWnGK1dor1fsgV7d5vo1gZTRJipPmx485jvKwQ/s340/_The_Scarlet_Crystal__movie_ad_-_from,_Moving_Picture_Weekly_(1915-1920)_(page_190_crop).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="262" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0qqoKybpLeEAl0UvyH1KWscXrbJ6lq-pkZ1LcmRBXFMzHH-4YliAL5VLQrvKn9SWp18mZe6oiVQ9Auz9bXmGzgjyPGHM8teiNUauiaGKknsHeynuQ4sKgJDoN8MUrRjEm5EYt6dFqCOCg4mLewx1eqWnGK1dor1fsgV7d5vo1gZTRJipPmx485jvKwQ/s320/_The_Scarlet_Crystal__movie_ad_-_from,_Moving_Picture_Weekly_(1915-1920)_(page_190_crop).jpg" width="247" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-53255985008663144402022-10-30T14:50:00.005-04:002022-10-30T14:50:44.986-04:00October 30: Le Petit Chaperon Rouge [Little Red Riding Hood] <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiey5yBIAZgnsuoy-Ub86Ms_n6y_8PhhVFok6tinTAhPukU8SkRjEyc8Ozuo9oOcW8988fg1wL9uMFghe6e7nltP8lAunwOox5eV7qWVtnStPlsji6OqHWCLHLBXKDCVK9jsN2IBziYs-xd3ify7bWu0_866V8I2KrOj7D_iphiCZZii-EyUVpMOY3iLg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="191" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiey5yBIAZgnsuoy-Ub86Ms_n6y_8PhhVFok6tinTAhPukU8SkRjEyc8Ozuo9oOcW8988fg1wL9uMFghe6e7nltP8lAunwOox5eV7qWVtnStPlsji6OqHWCLHLBXKDCVK9jsN2IBziYs-xd3ify7bWu0_866V8I2KrOj7D_iphiCZZii-EyUVpMOY3iLg=w464-h640" width="464" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">Le Petit Chaperon Rouge</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (or </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Little Red Riding Hood</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">) was an </span>experimental<span style="font-family: inherit;"> take on the Red Riding Hood story directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (who was one of the director's of the 1945 horror anthology </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Dead of Night</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">). Avant garde artist Jean Renoir was deeply involved in the production of the film, which was 1 hour in length. Renoir was not only primarily responsible for the adaptation to a screenplay format (which was done with Cavalcanti), he was also the Compère de Loup or wolf of the film. Only in this adaptation, the wolf takes the form of a lecherous tramp. </span>Descriptions<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the film make it clear that </span>whatever<span style="font-family: inherit;"> form that wolf's attempt to </span>devour <span style="font-family: inherit;">Red Riding Hood took, it was in some form sexual. This is made even more clear when the few stills of Le petit Chaperon </span>rouge<span style="font-family: inherit;">, played by Catherine Hessling, are examined (Hessling was Renoir's wife at the time). Descriptions of the film make it clear that the story has been completely modernized and are meant to be </span>artistically<span style="font-family: inherit;"> tongue-in-cheek. The film was completed in 1929, and released as a silent/partial sound film in France in the spring of 1930. That fall it was re-released with a soundtrack. This Jean Renoir...so you know it had to be pretty weird. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFivp72VqZwwZYFRyq7jjPs9ZGzx5F5yown3SZiw1-2n9QDVccP4Vd8_F32Pv_bBLxByLiP3dp-fFMhZfdD0S6SSVfpjFMR70hpYzmXca86CVihTUsQlx03teXsG__RMLmDkFudhfcX9579Utw4-UsPMcDrvpmm3MJhhm0uRnLm8b78MDzFBCT-NhQNA/s1280/image-w1280-1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFivp72VqZwwZYFRyq7jjPs9ZGzx5F5yown3SZiw1-2n9QDVccP4Vd8_F32Pv_bBLxByLiP3dp-fFMhZfdD0S6SSVfpjFMR70hpYzmXca86CVihTUsQlx03teXsG__RMLmDkFudhfcX9579Utw4-UsPMcDrvpmm3MJhhm0uRnLm8b78MDzFBCT-NhQNA/w640-h360/image-w1280-1.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-32258779467395522162022-10-29T19:03:00.000-04:002022-10-29T19:03:28.949-04:00October 29: Mini Post on Some Makeup Men<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOmUy7WavTnm5zCZjMadwGA6cOdmfFF7YGeBqY85EE-v6VWxDi3JWm6Kv1v0PMFANMxgieP876f9UT03aKP2AMj-4KkemS-etx1GNCxmIRnzKqSkJb2Vjzr4xBAhPUGp-W37QMs31tGMnYmHvEma1uVsuucFRKYqmYQ6jwJRpCULafsn0EweWXb74ZA/s883/26183aa200076f371ea266bc61a1bc28.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOmUy7WavTnm5zCZjMadwGA6cOdmfFF7YGeBqY85EE-v6VWxDi3JWm6Kv1v0PMFANMxgieP876f9UT03aKP2AMj-4KkemS-etx1GNCxmIRnzKqSkJb2Vjzr4xBAhPUGp-W37QMs31tGMnYmHvEma1uVsuucFRKYqmYQ6jwJRpCULafsn0EweWXb74ZA/w464-h640/26183aa200076f371ea266bc61a1bc28.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We all know Lon Chaney as "the man of a thousand faces" for his many roles that required either heavy makeup or </span>prosthetics<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of some sort in the 1920's. Many people also know that Chaney was his own makeup artist, what is not as widely known is that Chaney was just one of a long line of actors that were also very accomplished makeup artists. Two actors to appear in horror before him that stand out </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">are Charles Ogle and King Baggot. They both created their monstrous looks that have in many ways become iconic today.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQiKVm_aFdyNaG8m8hNAro-GO5Y7bjimug703rIyK3SY9boqEO_Y_A34f_sPLlOpx-nKYmuHtkuAwIkB0sAYeMIoyq7gt_tBCKLbtOVz7KaApSpdLEq2Q63R8M_I_4d7k16P3ge7UeG2FA8lyigFdfG4KNz7mM9S21YfPND6fZdpilNqvwEtebk9iRXA/s2868/Image-original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2868" data-original-width="2279" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQiKVm_aFdyNaG8m8hNAro-GO5Y7bjimug703rIyK3SY9boqEO_Y_A34f_sPLlOpx-nKYmuHtkuAwIkB0sAYeMIoyq7gt_tBCKLbtOVz7KaApSpdLEq2Q63R8M_I_4d7k16P3ge7UeG2FA8lyigFdfG4KNz7mM9S21YfPND6fZdpilNqvwEtebk9iRXA/w318-h400/Image-original.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrOYr8GYbxeFGIsA0zphs_mWGrVZD0djrL_qk2Vi2UXTWHG1ThzFL57HKoSczZR_kz6J3yHSrrRSGRhETksUAQrx6UDhdIRStRZtAYHoHWKagl4tIKv-uPfdAwSVsTBGH7vnkxysPBXqKn3L7dghkxlVFIOwRMME6Iw2ADuSzaS1JV236qZZLmUq0fzg/s620/Edison-Frankenstein-banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="620" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrOYr8GYbxeFGIsA0zphs_mWGrVZD0djrL_qk2Vi2UXTWHG1ThzFL57HKoSczZR_kz6J3yHSrrRSGRhETksUAQrx6UDhdIRStRZtAYHoHWKagl4tIKv-uPfdAwSVsTBGH7vnkxysPBXqKn3L7dghkxlVFIOwRMME6Iw2ADuSzaS1JV236qZZLmUq0fzg/s320/Edison-Frankenstein-banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Charles Ogle was the star of Edison's 1910 adaptation of <i>Frankenstein</i>, the film is only 16 minutes long, but it is memorable for it's creature. Ogle created the complete look himself and makes an unforgettable entrance in the film, emerging from a "creation chamber." His visage is as monstrous as the creature has ever been in film. With wild hair and deformed hands, he appears more a wholly supernatural monster, than a deformed human created wholly by science. Long thought lost until the mid-1970's; the film has been restored multiple times, most recently by our own Library of Congress. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ym_ySQs37lacOeNi3mbAKeLBMVXEDrNOWhrWua1mKmSnG3XUQcqgBGTUMOEjNuR4FL2zNh6LJxTHs7NVzhxKSnOWRh1wtbnjVP7OLdGQuYSSL0CcXky-AaHAu_6Uw4k_kgbjwEvRF3mkeAszGkrub3J3gp1WPMzecHAsIQbk71cdBiGPOjf2CWpH4A/s1943/Actor_King_Baggott_(SAYRE_2417).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1943" data-original-width="1328" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ym_ySQs37lacOeNi3mbAKeLBMVXEDrNOWhrWua1mKmSnG3XUQcqgBGTUMOEjNuR4FL2zNh6LJxTHs7NVzhxKSnOWRh1wtbnjVP7OLdGQuYSSL0CcXky-AaHAu_6Uw4k_kgbjwEvRF3mkeAszGkrub3J3gp1WPMzecHAsIQbk71cdBiGPOjf2CWpH4A/w274-h400/Actor_King_Baggott_(SAYRE_2417).jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5RFRkIB0WjKwm1jB9JKLVcQ8nAkqvWuVSVqX-7yI9WEO39tvq1rHRxtNRPmjkXy1n2EMtfk5N-wTO4uOiYp-gNvAr9uC2bTXf2OCSW1G82Imyh9KEXdESMq34TH_sQVQ6LNTC9D78GZP25RrGmUIg2xYmFMB4dfaw8qUuxPhJjyayEPwIp1gc-plhNw/s200/download-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5RFRkIB0WjKwm1jB9JKLVcQ8nAkqvWuVSVqX-7yI9WEO39tvq1rHRxtNRPmjkXy1n2EMtfk5N-wTO4uOiYp-gNvAr9uC2bTXf2OCSW1G82Imyh9KEXdESMq34TH_sQVQ6LNTC9D78GZP25RrGmUIg2xYmFMB4dfaw8qUuxPhJjyayEPwIp1gc-plhNw/w320-h320/download-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">King Baggot was cast in the dual role of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the 1913 IMP/Universal adaptation of the Stevenson work. Not the very first adaptation of the work, it was the first for Universal, making Baggot really the first "Universal Monsters." He was responsible for creating the visage of the wild and insane Hyde. What is interesting about Baggot's Hyde is that it is a look that apparently influenced the 1941 MGM production starring Spencer Tracy. Originally released in the two parts, the film in total runs close to half and hour. Both are available to stream online and are well worth a view. </span></div></div><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-63785357158568761472022-10-28T15:33:00.001-04:002022-10-28T15:33:22.029-04:00October 28: Unheimliche Geschichten (Uncanny Stories)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUclHqs3qpaP0159UC3VLy2_4Wrd7Vv0fZMA-uBoTE-q5mPv1QFPxZAVuNVH5tfIDHI-GR8NCmlMjFOgg2NPFnWbrvgqfc4MvJ86inu0itwVy7jwaXsmyrDsiSUVyAGenqojg4k_yoq_fjXCBTN04WdIHdullAVpH7LZYNtzPtlS2KEtuFZAyBUWneoA/s1096/MV5BZjUzZDk3OTQtNWM4OC00ZWY0LTg4ZmQtZjlkZmRmNmU0ODVjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTI2MjI5MQ@@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="738" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUclHqs3qpaP0159UC3VLy2_4Wrd7Vv0fZMA-uBoTE-q5mPv1QFPxZAVuNVH5tfIDHI-GR8NCmlMjFOgg2NPFnWbrvgqfc4MvJ86inu0itwVy7jwaXsmyrDsiSUVyAGenqojg4k_yoq_fjXCBTN04WdIHdullAVpH7LZYNtzPtlS2KEtuFZAyBUWneoA/w430-h640/MV5BZjUzZDk3OTQtNWM4OC00ZWY0LTg4ZmQtZjlkZmRmNmU0ODVjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTI2MjI5MQ@@._V1_.jpg" width="430" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Germany's <i>Unheimliche Geschichte </i>or </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Grausíge Nächte</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Horrible Nights) is the earliest horror anthology; released in 1919 and containing five distinct stories with a sixth frame story. Three of the five stories were written by well known writers of the gothic: Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Germany's own Anselma Heine. Director Richard Oswald provided a fourth story with "Der Spuk" (The Spectre). The fifth writer, Robert Liebmann was on the cusp of establishing himself as an important </span>screenwriter<span style="font-family: inherit;"> in the country when he provided a story for the film; he would go on to be one of the most successful screenwriters of 1920's German cinema (he would later die at the age of just 52 in 1942 because he was Jewish). The most famous cast member (by far!) is Conrad Veidt, who not only appears as Death in the prologue, but also has roles in the individual stories themselves. The other two principle players appearing in all of the stories are Anita Berber and Reinhold Schünzel. The director himself makes a cameo in the prologue as well; in what would become a the norm for director cameos, he went uncredited. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiiR99hHa3S8OCR-18W0p26p4yuF0l2lfj8_MTo2xVHX0QidQ1x_7Wd_WS9Sd3QJoxbkAKPDn3zmKmMjxAEaaq9GJdvV6HfoMjHH77YOwvXSewmhvN9JTrAbkkifro1DSet5e8LnhJ0LFBT_FeKun9BZxE3rqo-kDqMgl0EjKi2WikaWIgSzDeM9fRQ/s640/+%20Conrad%20Veidt%20-%20Uncanny%20Tales%20(1919).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiiR99hHa3S8OCR-18W0p26p4yuF0l2lfj8_MTo2xVHX0QidQ1x_7Wd_WS9Sd3QJoxbkAKPDn3zmKmMjxAEaaq9GJdvV6HfoMjHH77YOwvXSewmhvN9JTrAbkkifro1DSet5e8LnhJ0LFBT_FeKun9BZxE3rqo-kDqMgl0EjKi2WikaWIgSzDeM9fRQ/w400-h300/+%20Conrad%20Veidt%20-%20Uncanny%20Tales%20(1919).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The director in the middle with his two principle male players</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The film's original runtime was 112 minutes (or 1 hour 52 minutes), with DVD releases having it cut to 98 minutes. The five </span>principal<span style="font-family: inherit;"> stories as follows:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Apparition</i> by Anselm Heine</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Hand </i>by Robert Liebmann</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Black Cat</i> by Edgar Allan Poe</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Suicide Club</i> by Robert Louis Stevenson</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Spectre</i> by Richard Oswald</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The film goes by several </span>different<span style="font-family: inherit;"> translated names in English, including: </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Eerie Tales, Five Sinister Stories, Weird Tales, Tales of Horror </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">and </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Tales of the Uncanny</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. The film is not just a milestone as the very first horror anthology movie, it is also an oft over-looked early film of German expressionism. Though the direction style is not as outlandish as Murnau or Wiene, it is a very important work in the vein of gothic silent cinema in Germany, a great example of a work that gave ideas to the imagination of later films of Expressionism. Oswald would remake the film in 1932 with full sound as <i>The Living Dead</i> with Paul Wegener as the principle actor. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A Few Stills & GIFs</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhGhIoE0UGc3CiNUd3N1yyq4wDxZ1opcl-_R2H0hYtnVlCQLVJ-PN0TaGsYUeoGX5EWK6MHiakfFUAS684qMQKDMT_oPs08txzSViwCvPxallNkvdgrx--92aLAhbO7iZnRqqaoboJIbeZ57JJbe0er3m118AI2uBPGoxgp-whCiziaJM9UokVgoIvw/s640/931ad7jjead81.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhGhIoE0UGc3CiNUd3N1yyq4wDxZ1opcl-_R2H0hYtnVlCQLVJ-PN0TaGsYUeoGX5EWK6MHiakfFUAS684qMQKDMT_oPs08txzSViwCvPxallNkvdgrx--92aLAhbO7iZnRqqaoboJIbeZ57JJbe0er3m118AI2uBPGoxgp-whCiziaJM9UokVgoIvw/w640-h480/931ad7jjead81.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YuPy8UFQi694QOLvrw3VATwmE2j2wyf6spWtXWw29ePY5oM5PmUuk-FZG5s5DlcF_AwlEfV0Fheb7cY5nKFKsFlDTZjutZQEKiM5yh2buxriConfthknpodKJMuvJ4IFeG_uqifYqWzNJqs8OV_rQIieMlea16V-CLGdVSHZzOrVFtBwljJNiAyQlg/s2814/Puritan_Passions-lobbycard-1923.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2223" data-original-width="2814" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YuPy8UFQi694QOLvrw3VATwmE2j2wyf6spWtXWw29ePY5oM5PmUuk-FZG5s5DlcF_AwlEfV0Fheb7cY5nKFKsFlDTZjutZQEKiM5yh2buxriConfthknpodKJMuvJ4IFeG_uqifYqWzNJqs8OV_rQIieMlea16V-CLGdVSHZzOrVFtBwljJNiAyQlg/w640-h506/Puritan_Passions-lobbycard-1923.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Lobby card for the 1923 film <i>Puritan Passions</i>, set in Salem, Massachusetts. The film, based on a popular play, was about the witchcraft hysteria in 1692. Note the Puritan at the top left hand corner of the card as a puppeteer. It was not a accident that the image resembles the devil. This film is also featured in the 3+ hour long documentary <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13938338/?ref_=tt_trv_cnn" target="_blank">Woodlands Dark and Day Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror</a> (2021). </span></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-42870713762968838882022-10-26T19:43:00.002-04:002022-10-26T19:43:10.755-04:00October 26: Those Who Dare (1924)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoPKuBHu0rRUFfHNUpQXsu9Qo32ygJ4KBZ0wdo7A5gaBe-4AdZx_lpzI_d6mpJsSUipNTbQ5-513y3kuh42A-JT9NBxB67pT2qZL5gVqaoRM44N5HJW7aFbCjEY7fgwIiI-Z-40tl_pVlyKRjf0wcoaw4dev1vQ8b3O6W8gKHKMHChkeB6BvjS_zfFEw/s1338/MV5BYmM0Y2VhNzctMWE3OS00NWZiLWE1YzQtMTg5MWM4ZjFmOGUyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUxODE0MDY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoPKuBHu0rRUFfHNUpQXsu9Qo32ygJ4KBZ0wdo7A5gaBe-4AdZx_lpzI_d6mpJsSUipNTbQ5-513y3kuh42A-JT9NBxB67pT2qZL5gVqaoRM44N5HJW7aFbCjEY7fgwIiI-Z-40tl_pVlyKRjf0wcoaw4dev1vQ8b3O6W8gKHKMHChkeB6BvjS_zfFEw/w299-h400/MV5BYmM0Y2VhNzctMWE3OS00NWZiLWE1YzQtMTg5MWM4ZjFmOGUyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUxODE0MDY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">Those Who Dare</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> was a sea-voyage drama that featured supernatural practices (and capitalized on </span>superstitions<span style="font-family: inherit;"> about non-Christian </span>religions)<span style="font-family: inherit;"> released in 1924 by Creative Pictures. The main "horror" element of the film was the practice of voodoo. Even today the voodoo trope is used in the horror films; in 1924 adding the practice of some form of voodoo to the claustrophobic confines of an ocean voyage would have been extremely menacing to an all white audience. Though a print was discovered in Italy, the film has not been restored; so we don't have as many source materials or extant stills or posters to go on as we do many of the film's contemporaries . The over all story concerns a ship that is ordered removed from a harbor </span>because<span style="font-family: inherit;"> it is considered cursed. Largely the story was told in flashback, as the current captain tells the story of how he came to be in possession of the ship. The story involved him encountering the ship at sea, finding a mutineering crew aboard that were under a "voodoo spell" by a voodoo </span>priest<span style="font-family: inherit;"> (or some such). He bests the evil man; and the captain, grateful, just gives him the ship. Implausible at best! </span><span>The film went by a couple of different titles, including </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Superstition</i><span>, a poster of which is posted below. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are two silent horror connections in the film and both concern cast members who acted in two famous horror films (one before this production, and one after). The most important of these is Sheldon Lewis, who is playing the evil voodoo sorcerer "Serpent Smith." Lewis had been a member of the </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">(1920) cast with John Barrymore; he would go on to appear in other horrors in the 30's and principally remembered for </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Monster Walks </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">(1932). The other connection is Cesare Gravina, who would later be a member of the cast of Leni's </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Man Who Laughed</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbj8qkfTelCvSg8qFZEfiTPLiw9l2b65G7A-5d1kj0FnsaZJocYp40E75fsUTo5CQDOiQhbGAOotKOfJ0mvSNg7s9AHthwsjTCrD2dm5Fl8Lrj409eQ43oq2PKNM_kej_9EEf0fUGhsQwHtV2b_CTCxs_T4w-Z7AA6gDQL55xGOHhUeluKx8Y4_yRRg/s825/Those_Who_Dare_(1924)_-_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="604" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbj8qkfTelCvSg8qFZEfiTPLiw9l2b65G7A-5d1kj0FnsaZJocYp40E75fsUTo5CQDOiQhbGAOotKOfJ0mvSNg7s9AHthwsjTCrD2dm5Fl8Lrj409eQ43oq2PKNM_kej_9EEf0fUGhsQwHtV2b_CTCxs_T4w-Z7AA6gDQL55xGOHhUeluKx8Y4_yRRg/w293-h400/Those_Who_Dare_(1924)_-_1.jpg" width="293" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-18994829297122700202022-10-25T21:00:00.002-04:002022-10-25T21:00:15.499-04:00October 25: Arachnida the Human Headed Spider <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4t56puLItA8VrAlJBrg8jVQy9NCNbWJ0ouetnvU-x7OVR-b5E95sC9JF-8hpkiJ0rGH1Wluz6qpSNDgW5gaVQZLjtC4RJPv2wkLQtw8u2eXM91rwA2e6VDNnWPKAf-0esR1rEsMwjtrHgEQJE0yI4qYfWHT7B459YnbtNCD9XmXj3iO3MjBsvi9coFw/s1156/The_Show_(1927_film).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="748" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4t56puLItA8VrAlJBrg8jVQy9NCNbWJ0ouetnvU-x7OVR-b5E95sC9JF-8hpkiJ0rGH1Wluz6qpSNDgW5gaVQZLjtC4RJPv2wkLQtw8u2eXM91rwA2e6VDNnWPKAf-0esR1rEsMwjtrHgEQJE0yI4qYfWHT7B459YnbtNCD9XmXj3iO3MjBsvi9coFw/w414-h640/The_Show_(1927_film).jpg" width="414" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtxeuh-27X5HguNrqvyfoA_AsJQp9aXR383vH3JE_TgoH97mrFRcztlxwEKthzAMe1dqzg6XSBVSe9mjqqNlmNWvxnRG2Ap_YGgOHClHw9b6LpYFNeTHDFLOageSPPjxTKXWdZ8UHtAV2oaAb40oXV_-_ML2zQPimdJM5o-sV91qEonwOueGOtpaGPAg/s1000/MV5BNzA3NTQwMzQtNWEwYy00MDU1LWI3NmItMjdhZmQ0ODk2YTE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDUyOTUyNQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1000" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtxeuh-27X5HguNrqvyfoA_AsJQp9aXR383vH3JE_TgoH97mrFRcztlxwEKthzAMe1dqzg6XSBVSe9mjqqNlmNWvxnRG2Ap_YGgOHClHw9b6LpYFNeTHDFLOageSPPjxTKXWdZ8UHtAV2oaAb40oXV_-_ML2zQPimdJM5o-sV91qEonwOueGOtpaGPAg/w400-h315/MV5BNzA3NTQwMzQtNWEwYy00MDU1LWI3NmItMjdhZmQ0ODk2YTE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDUyOTUyNQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are a few images from silent films that always show up on various social media platforms around Halloween. One of the most famous is from a Tod Browning's film from the 1920's. Thing is...credit on the image is just as likely to be wrong as right. The image in question is Browning's human spider from his 1927 film </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Show</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. I will leave off any </span>analysis<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the film and any connections to Browning's </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Freaks</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Focusing instead on giving credit to French born actress Renée Adorée who is the head of the "human spider" Arachnida costume created for the film.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkb-HRxnstUVReoKiGk-H-f-kr7xXbHTrHNZU52nTcRlsUNn9qcqsxO1U2Ni8GZcS0h1iuHHK0vGJdIAeaGwdSAza5UfUmNaZLY38Q4EJAHJutpxIfZns-hcaY1h4sbeGQjpQShsWbGKn6H_cbZTh9jMCMHICuovcs3jPfCqwQ1G9wG1JI1c5twXV9XA/s300/the_show.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="300" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkb-HRxnstUVReoKiGk-H-f-kr7xXbHTrHNZU52nTcRlsUNn9qcqsxO1U2Ni8GZcS0h1iuHHK0vGJdIAeaGwdSAza5UfUmNaZLY38Q4EJAHJutpxIfZns-hcaY1h4sbeGQjpQShsWbGKn6H_cbZTh9jMCMHICuovcs3jPfCqwQ1G9wG1JI1c5twXV9XA/w400-h294/the_show.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The concept was not original to Browning; and he was not intending to take credit for it. It was meant to be a quote of sorts. It had long been an actual </span>sideshow<span style="font-family: inherit;"> attraction that was popular for years before the film's production; it even showed up later as a prop that a person could insert their head in to have a photo taken as a carnival memento. The film which has Adoreé as Salome opposite John Gilbert as Cock Robin, centers around a group of carnival performers in Budapest that perform a variety of dances and illusions in a side-show; the human spider is but just one. The film is based on the 1910 novel </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Day of the Souls</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and is really more of a crime story than a horror. But, this </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">is</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Tod Browning, and the images are always going to be </span>striking<span style="font-family: inherit;">!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHnMLOJI2OefmfJfrQsZjkcGLKQgKOWQL5BQ3op9JGhJcLAqVht9RE9xLDyBAYv5lz1nzi3iZ3EaFhZ-qrAuX-EdBcMR8pPowH3_fxLNjYYAqQPlV9j4DyDZn9gY4qfwb6X6t8LuSqegVwc1Fzq4AR7c2JLSQ3Rg9AMjaOYbDSgYU5xX3ptN2M1V_C4g/s500/27881970bdfe9a39ae0391236a66e8a6.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="500" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHnMLOJI2OefmfJfrQsZjkcGLKQgKOWQL5BQ3op9JGhJcLAqVht9RE9xLDyBAYv5lz1nzi3iZ3EaFhZ-qrAuX-EdBcMR8pPowH3_fxLNjYYAqQPlV9j4DyDZn9gY4qfwb6X6t8LuSqegVwc1Fzq4AR7c2JLSQ3Rg9AMjaOYbDSgYU5xX3ptN2M1V_C4g/w400-h310/27881970bdfe9a39ae0391236a66e8a6.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Below is a still with John Gilbert in the foreground in character as Cock Robin. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDWPMhI92Y4laha2Q16_7dEcqSG8quuDr3fN4hZAIxyBDtffqq5ffmFUT-r0dVZ209mGQG0W9DWCIpXQ2Zj7nPq1TZJMM9OQyFLIkIQEYiLAJd0a40niDbRE0fU1TWsSxi4StJLtSvATAaxKw-yFGRcClFpfo-Gx8YB_96avRm07bYZb8Fc1GkuSyMIQ/s430/tumblr_lo8ngqj5sP1qbxoi2o1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="430" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDWPMhI92Y4laha2Q16_7dEcqSG8quuDr3fN4hZAIxyBDtffqq5ffmFUT-r0dVZ209mGQG0W9DWCIpXQ2Zj7nPq1TZJMM9OQyFLIkIQEYiLAJd0a40niDbRE0fU1TWsSxi4StJLtSvATAaxKw-yFGRcClFpfo-Gx8YB_96avRm07bYZb8Fc1GkuSyMIQ/w400-h331/tumblr_lo8ngqj5sP1qbxoi2o1_500.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-57717394698035545722022-10-24T19:56:00.005-04:002022-10-24T19:56:42.808-04:00October 24: La folie de Docteur Tube (1915)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTGDzQ33DlCImNAprwRZi8tCsDsNaupJ_4DwjLmAH2w5EiIv183Z-L9oQzxdb_LG35yqyLaup2mHeMYcw4ULWKCLNnv2Hjz5nba6WU0CIxgJXPy6qh4Xfhp2C_GiLHf9b60yrWqgxSwBTHC9aKv61WO-B4ffCKDZbIGQkzxF4ddGYqRFvE9eBoOdpfA/s275/la-folie-du-docteur-tube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTGDzQ33DlCImNAprwRZi8tCsDsNaupJ_4DwjLmAH2w5EiIv183Z-L9oQzxdb_LG35yqyLaup2mHeMYcw4ULWKCLNnv2Hjz5nba6WU0CIxgJXPy6qh4Xfhp2C_GiLHf9b60yrWqgxSwBTHC9aKv61WO-B4ffCKDZbIGQkzxF4ddGYqRFvE9eBoOdpfA/w266-h400/la-folie-du-docteur-tube.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>La folie du Docteur Tube </i>(or <i>The Madness of Doctor Tube</i>) is an experimental film from early French film artist Abel Gance made and released in 1915. The film is only 6 minutes long, and quite "mad cap." Much in the vein of <i>Dream of a Rare-bit Fiend</i> (1906) in concept, the film is much weirder, much less narrative and far more disorienting. Where as <i>Rarebit Fiend </i>has a narrative warning against the evils of binge drinking and drunken states; Gance admitted that the very idea of this strange little film came to him when he was in a seriously inebriated state. The general story of the film is that of a mad scientist who invents a powder that deforms; fortunately the effect is temporary. It was principally a vehicle for Gance to experiment with mirrors and distortions with lens. The cast is naturally small, with just two roles of principle import. <span>The scientist is played by Séverin-Mars. While the most famous cast member is Albert Dieudonné as the "young man;" he is best known for his work with Gance in the 1910's and 1920's, and </span>principally<span> famous of appearing as Napoléon Bonaparte in Gance's 1927 </span><i>Napoleon</i><span>. To call this film a trip, is kind of an </span>understatement<span>; it is quite hallucinatory. It was intended to be a side-splitting comedy, but it is not very funny today. It's also hard to watch if you have any issues with visual triggers. It is certainly strange enough to include it on a Spooktober watch list!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDXI-CQ5MQamorgxDlULt8Qv5V4i3UZ1_ig1UbEafFEGpx1qlWb3clCpld-uQqA46qX7hbYWzF-pEZ4PjejJA_4HY5kG16LmX6B25MM0lPT4ne4OMCvFcWiZzc8_MbowounpYyOkZAxs7MPSXa7zcE1KgVI_xS5A4ZXPqnHtoUAmSrb_vLkqTSi8L0g/s400/ef2852d3b9e949b1cd1b026aeb486506.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="400" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDXI-CQ5MQamorgxDlULt8Qv5V4i3UZ1_ig1UbEafFEGpx1qlWb3clCpld-uQqA46qX7hbYWzF-pEZ4PjejJA_4HY5kG16LmX6B25MM0lPT4ne4OMCvFcWiZzc8_MbowounpYyOkZAxs7MPSXa7zcE1KgVI_xS5A4ZXPqnHtoUAmSrb_vLkqTSi8L0g/w400-h301/ef2852d3b9e949b1cd1b026aeb486506.gif" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span><br /></span></span><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-28010510231195552792022-10-23T19:20:00.001-04:002022-10-23T19:20:05.469-04:00October 23: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Gfk9Df6o33rSKnF3I7KY6r3qbUmFSDwnln2yFkWfmepnNDSYSq-GI3lnHh0CihzIbjrRcqLASbc76RCtjN4fVYW5epYc2wDVbi_c7rsBPYFdyOuB8OVxIQe-US4QSqzbMhpUsmzpx9bqR13Nok2V6bZEKimxlVh45WtCX6je1k-2YHcoUG3L5YFYQA/s400/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-eille-norwood-aka-ellie-norwood-1921_u-l-q1j6bzl0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Gfk9Df6o33rSKnF3I7KY6r3qbUmFSDwnln2yFkWfmepnNDSYSq-GI3lnHh0CihzIbjrRcqLASbc76RCtjN4fVYW5epYc2wDVbi_c7rsBPYFdyOuB8OVxIQe-US4QSqzbMhpUsmzpx9bqR13Nok2V6bZEKimxlVh45WtCX6je1k-2YHcoUG3L5YFYQA/w640-h480/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-eille-norwood-aka-ellie-norwood-1921_u-l-q1j6bzl0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A Sherlock that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found compelling! (well that is the modern tagline I would put on the film anyway). Doyle saw the film in the theater and said the following about it:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Ellie Norwood, whose wonderful personification of Holmes has amazed me. One seeing him in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> I thought I had never seen anything more masterly. {quote from Alan Barnes 2011 book <i>Sherlock Holmes on Screen}</i></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Hound of the Baskervilles</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> has always been listed has Doyle's one true Sherlock Holmes horror story. It, from the beginning of it's film history (which began in 1914), has been promoted as a horror mystery. The ghostly </span>backstory<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of family </span>transgression<span style="font-family: inherit;">, the supernatural nature of the hound in the story (most definitely equated with a "hounds of hell"), the brooding haunted nature of a moor, a house </span>isolated<span style="font-family: inherit;"> with strange lights seen but not explained--they are are all deep horror tropes/themes. The fact that it is a Sherlock Holmes mystery means that eventually it will out as all explainable through human action; though the truth is no less horrifying. Furthermore, the inspiration for the story came from actual legends from Dartmoor (see </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cabell" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">this</a></span> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Wikipedia entry--damn spooky stuff!). </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmb7ODrb7fbYajvMpEA4AV8dI90PomEy5u4WJW7c5PgV5lse8pjlFw0c7b9LJ6Z-Lf33ijfLZ-Rt18z8JyY459aTUc_rlrDr_AZdp9byKYnmHwJIq5L7yy_8EwgtCmZLMIe_EiwOCGVvHps0-A4wCrarwYkfRVBKcTA9iLdh1alDbAU78yjQeH-g2LSA/s467/eille_norwood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="425" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmb7ODrb7fbYajvMpEA4AV8dI90PomEy5u4WJW7c5PgV5lse8pjlFw0c7b9LJ6Z-Lf33ijfLZ-Rt18z8JyY459aTUc_rlrDr_AZdp9byKYnmHwJIq5L7yy_8EwgtCmZLMIe_EiwOCGVvHps0-A4wCrarwYkfRVBKcTA9iLdh1alDbAU78yjQeH-g2LSA/w364-h400/eille_norwood.jpg" width="364" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ellie Norwood as Holmes</span> [public domain Stoll picture still]</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The film was released in August of 1921 in London; it was the production of Stoll Pictures, had/has a length of 5500 feet on five reels and shot on locations in southwest Surrey (though several sources have incorrectly claimed that it was shot on Dartmoor, where the story is set). It was eventually internationally released, with a wide distribution in 1923 across the United States. It was the very first British adaptation of the novel.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQswnRz_KBnHGaW_-xwGhSH0CcxxLWnARmOyKidBXp2611dsAP6JLQzVKVxpw3DUsYwnxMswL0VYcHI42leOT1KZ7UPMyXg_GscyTB4omyWkDiREv6iloLrnjKXPcfH9RfZEfnP_J3NYkax9aSVfTIqMKxY9ZTd1V1D1Qk6PD82hAR-1Lcy2A3FowmqA/s570/1921.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="570" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQswnRz_KBnHGaW_-xwGhSH0CcxxLWnARmOyKidBXp2611dsAP6JLQzVKVxpw3DUsYwnxMswL0VYcHI42leOT1KZ7UPMyXg_GscyTB4omyWkDiREv6iloLrnjKXPcfH9RfZEfnP_J3NYkax9aSVfTIqMKxY9ZTd1V1D1Qk6PD82hAR-1Lcy2A3FowmqA/w400-h300/1921.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Still of the hound from the film</span> [Stoll Pictures]</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The B.F.I. is reportedly working on a full restoration; the work is expected to be completed some time in 2023 (as part of a series). Eagerly awaited here!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXPXerMLbS87yTOFrGsZIs2F6bl8Q1_L6yenpJ8ocDPlT9K_DMf9izmOkGkqI9rogQNoZkLadz3rD68tT9B18pKCTQU9PVe9yXYw_pq1YVrjE_QZYk9OEfF3ZDWz2TO-XqhFoZTWoy5iX3bKIUN9Qep9NAAEdLeT7ZAqwSRMeikKdp1Y02E3jcxShqQ/s488/MV5BMDNhMTFmMGItZjQzMy00Mjc5LTgyMjYtZDMxZWQwNzg3MWQ1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzI5NDcxNzI@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="410" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXPXerMLbS87yTOFrGsZIs2F6bl8Q1_L6yenpJ8ocDPlT9K_DMf9izmOkGkqI9rogQNoZkLadz3rD68tT9B18pKCTQU9PVe9yXYw_pq1YVrjE_QZYk9OEfF3ZDWz2TO-XqhFoZTWoy5iX3bKIUN9Qep9NAAEdLeT7ZAqwSRMeikKdp1Y02E3jcxShqQ/s320/MV5BMDNhMTFmMGItZjQzMy00Mjc5LTgyMjYtZDMxZWQwNzg3MWQ1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzI5NDcxNzI@._V1_.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-67567871330689766672022-10-22T19:28:00.000-04:002022-10-22T19:28:00.259-04:00October 22: The Unholy Three (1925 & 1930)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGRQLBdwSARCbo29LnE1hgohdZY5NhpD3ZjumGwYb6jhFBFAxE1lZw8MKd4wqSMOIYHncQ_VBa9CM4IWDAA8y_MlGpzLqYu7DKx2X_iwy06bi76NruQKlMtUyUXpRqy6gNRuOtFWuEimfNl-Z1ObUXysPtC4KOdVJS-Ll9qL5CN2eHnbyS2z7de5ppqA/s2418/Poster_-_Unholy_Three,_The_(1925)_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2418" data-original-width="1849" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGRQLBdwSARCbo29LnE1hgohdZY5NhpD3ZjumGwYb6jhFBFAxE1lZw8MKd4wqSMOIYHncQ_VBa9CM4IWDAA8y_MlGpzLqYu7DKx2X_iwy06bi76NruQKlMtUyUXpRqy6gNRuOtFWuEimfNl-Z1ObUXysPtC4KOdVJS-Ll9qL5CN2eHnbyS2z7de5ppqA/w490-h640/Poster_-_Unholy_Three,_The_(1925)_02.jpg" width="490" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOKR6IYLR51p2Rs0uMMk9p2WnrExCpI6zPocbAyUN8FX9j9Xhs95jpLDqtQHKIL8JzoESQdbmWZcP29nLx96uJWrTalQzRu2txbKEItNEgIohEdWeKOwpBollDjcI-FFZ0rA4AHdVJRDdFLLkpQyAFDocjd3I8u_r8Z40UP41KFKV4FLrjzvagOwtgPQ/s1512/MV5BNzcwMzA3OGYtYjI4Yi00MmEwLWExZjItNWQ0YTcyODA0YmQ3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDI2NDg0NQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOKR6IYLR51p2Rs0uMMk9p2WnrExCpI6zPocbAyUN8FX9j9Xhs95jpLDqtQHKIL8JzoESQdbmWZcP29nLx96uJWrTalQzRu2txbKEItNEgIohEdWeKOwpBollDjcI-FFZ0rA4AHdVJRDdFLLkpQyAFDocjd3I8u_r8Z40UP41KFKV4FLrjzvagOwtgPQ/w424-h640/MV5BNzcwMzA3OGYtYjI4Yi00MmEwLWExZjItNWQ0YTcyODA0YmQ3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDI2NDg0NQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lon Chaney may not have lived long enough to reprise role from Tod Browning's </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">London After Midnight</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, but he did reprise another Browning role in a speaking remake of the original. Regarded as one of Browning best films, his 1925 </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Unholy Three</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> starred Chaney as a ventriloquist (a feat of very expressive silent acting); Chaney reprised the role in an all sound version in 1930 just prior to his untimely death that year (it would be his only speaking role in a film). Browning, however, did not direct the film: Jack Conway did. Conway was regarded as a "Jack of all trades" (literally) in terms of genres that he directed. He was not known for an particular specialty; which meant that his pictures, while </span>technically<span style="font-family: inherit;"> good, were rather bland; it also meant that he was beloved by studio </span>management<span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span>particularly<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Irving Thalberg. The talking remake suffers for it though. It's a </span>competent<span style="font-family: inherit;"> enough film to be sure, but it is (like so many remakes after it) a poor imitation of the original. The only other principle actor to return from the original cast was German born actor Harry Earles (Kurt </span>Schneider<span style="font-family: inherit;">). Earles was </span>Tweedledee<span style="font-family: inherit;"> in the </span>original<span style="font-family: inherit;">; Conway and crowd merely credited him as "midget" in the remake (Earles was only 3'3"). Below are some production comparisons of the two films. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0_iz5kpR3mVwCF_Vc47WKmmXt7hrnQpbKILlQ3PPUOU01Ga4Vz16qzd2iDWh6R9ar3X1hNLkdytZrRZjrKD9MM7GsI5d_9oSOlDPn8TGHAMdex982c18A35yQC_urBQyQRPmH07_H6fUfLwxLfLgZaAbKtvh0VcM4RymHYQI9O-qgRqG8N4tPH8sVQ/s1144/three-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1144" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0_iz5kpR3mVwCF_Vc47WKmmXt7hrnQpbKILlQ3PPUOU01Ga4Vz16qzd2iDWh6R9ar3X1hNLkdytZrRZjrKD9MM7GsI5d_9oSOlDPn8TGHAMdex982c18A35yQC_urBQyQRPmH07_H6fUfLwxLfLgZaAbKtvh0VcM4RymHYQI9O-qgRqG8N4tPH8sVQ/w400-h260/three-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MBvTVHKZYzw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wTjpuVouk_s" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-79720262352048767352022-10-21T15:42:00.000-04:002022-10-21T15:42:01.520-04:00October 21: His Brother's Keeper (1921)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPB6ctO1ArzMsD_FMY14R7iY3ZATw285YXIWCUul5grs25tG2-y1DiX_YQO-ulx8kBf2YYUEIPd-Cr3Ztsq9uGEWz678IG1EkO-dR_Nwv55uSoxpVa5uefViQI3rPnwwqLQkJOZZqxDMLasZAd8FiJkwoabOQ9vzyJ4wz6rwTmlaRN292hr_kIiLnSQ/s294/220px-His_Brother's_Keeper_(1921)_-_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="220" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPB6ctO1ArzMsD_FMY14R7iY3ZATw285YXIWCUul5grs25tG2-y1DiX_YQO-ulx8kBf2YYUEIPd-Cr3Ztsq9uGEWz678IG1EkO-dR_Nwv55uSoxpVa5uefViQI3rPnwwqLQkJOZZqxDMLasZAd8FiJkwoabOQ9vzyJ4wz6rwTmlaRN292hr_kIiLnSQ/w478-h640/220px-His_Brother's_Keeper_(1921)_-_1.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>His Brother's Keeper </i>was principally a crime film with strong horror elements from 1921. It is yet another lost film with enough extant information and materials to know most of the action of the entire film. The plot was an odd combination of corporate fraud mixed with mesmerizism/hypnoisis. The following description from on October 1921 print ad taken out in a Poughkeepsie newspaper gives a good description of how this, an early thriller, was marketed:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can one man compel another, by the force of mental suggestion to murder a third man? It is upon this question that N. Brewster Morse has constructed that greatest drama since the days of "Trilby" and "The Corsican Brothers." [from the Poughkeepsie Eagle-News]</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Principally the main plot behind the motivation to commit the murder is a bit beside the point. The point is that somehow a mere mortal man has the power to compel another innocent person to murder a man for him. Hypnotism was a popular "supernatural" trope in films of the time; it had strong connections to spiritualism, but it was also just as connected to the new science of psychology. It was both weird and wonderful; new, but possibly...just possibly, very old. It would also go on to be a popular vehicle in mad scientist films for the 1930's, 40's and 50's; so we find that concept in its infancy in films like this. Even today, we have vampire films and series that use hypnosis as a power that the creatures inherently possess in some form. What was truly frightening about <i>His Brother's Keeper</i> is that the mesmerized murderer is arrested; the audience knew that meant capital punishment. Pretty horrifying stuff. Of course, this is Hollywood, and we can't have the bad guy getting away with it. We have an investigation undertaken by a character named (I kid you not!) John Bonham and the culprit is exposed. As for justice, the film has him then promptly, and conveniently, doing away with himself. Other than a complete plot description and a poster, there are no other materials on this film for now. </span></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-12728853611317628162022-10-20T21:21:00.000-04:002022-10-20T21:21:16.194-04:00October 20: One Glorious Day (1922)<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5_u5KIz9k-TQ4KHBUtgfVuINIn6W7LDFo8oGEnU-fYRDRpL9evzAINXXigTB_x5zfdh0avhT77sz-MGqd-4a9vK8sWK6V8ty3O6uJehWyIt0E0_U3llXKRsPfQPVRggQX4MSWe_ca-X7-voMJhfyYPYCwIRFThki6bTHxUzFB_D8GsoQDD4_r4UjHQA/s281/MV5BZWZkNjEyZTktN2FkMy00MzJkLWI5YmMtNzQ3Mzg4MGUwNzRhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjA5MTAzODY@._V1_QL75_UY281_CR2,0,190,281_.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="190" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5_u5KIz9k-TQ4KHBUtgfVuINIn6W7LDFo8oGEnU-fYRDRpL9evzAINXXigTB_x5zfdh0avhT77sz-MGqd-4a9vK8sWK6V8ty3O6uJehWyIt0E0_U3llXKRsPfQPVRggQX4MSWe_ca-X7-voMJhfyYPYCwIRFThki6bTHxUzFB_D8GsoQDD4_r4UjHQA/w271-h400/MV5BZWZkNjEyZTktN2FkMy00MzJkLWI5YmMtNzQ3Mzg4MGUwNzRhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjA5MTAzODY@._V1_QL75_UY281_CR2,0,190,281_.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZl_gb8bGMhAUl5O9wzN7iBmKNkr045uRz3JCFk3Qi25ktjeVxCTEDsXT2kN2MbLwqMveFbnKOW62N0QuQOkdYZsP3X6RevTnJVE0tGu0vO1Ytcd3eV8WJgbWs85mEMYDc07y36S-2Jl1S3tXS0G3TORkFWROtA1kiQVaMNF0TQVU534X54Av2UbykA/s966/MV5BNzEzODMxMjEtYWFkZS00N2FkLTkwYTQtN2QwYWEyOGEyYzcyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUxODE0MDY@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="966" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZl_gb8bGMhAUl5O9wzN7iBmKNkr045uRz3JCFk3Qi25ktjeVxCTEDsXT2kN2MbLwqMveFbnKOW62N0QuQOkdYZsP3X6RevTnJVE0tGu0vO1Ytcd3eV8WJgbWs85mEMYDc07y36S-2Jl1S3tXS0G3TORkFWROtA1kiQVaMNF0TQVU534X54Av2UbykA/w640-h498/MV5BNzEzODMxMjEtYWFkZS00N2FkLTkwYTQtN2QwYWEyOGEyYzcyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUxODE0MDY@._V1_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>One Glorious Day</i> is a lost Paramount production directed by James Cruze starring Will Rogers and released in early 1922. Judging from the surviving materials, it was probably quite the strange little comedy. Frankly most of the stills show that the "spirit" Ek, an entity featured in the film only briefly in his original form, look far scarier than the film likely intended, this was a comedy after all. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbB79EGTNVMhhJ-oNZfEcoMUEzuDwobsJAIUDIrlp3s36XNGP8ru2yw83lkMV1DtrVFBLxvtNXWh8-xKAyFrn8ccAKufUBGEEgdD-pV8ZcKAcPLKYRoR-DXUtUxfrVAX65u1179ELVi9Lc0Ab1vGlb6C4GBtLH7PWv7SiP6Pl6Dp2lAVMsrZtP3mI1g/s944/MV5BODI2ZGFmODEtY2MzYS00ZDZmLTg3MWQtOWQ3MDQzYzQ4MmFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjU4NzU2OTA@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="775" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbB79EGTNVMhhJ-oNZfEcoMUEzuDwobsJAIUDIrlp3s36XNGP8ru2yw83lkMV1DtrVFBLxvtNXWh8-xKAyFrn8ccAKufUBGEEgdD-pV8ZcKAcPLKYRoR-DXUtUxfrVAX65u1179ELVi9Lc0Ab1vGlb6C4GBtLH7PWv7SiP6Pl6Dp2lAVMsrZtP3mI1g/w329-h400/MV5BODI2ZGFmODEtY2MzYS00ZDZmLTg3MWQtOWQ3MDQzYzQ4MmFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjU4NzU2OTA@._V1_.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rogers plays Professor Ezra Botts a scientist, who dabbles in psychic experiments. Ek is a mischievous little spirit who is waiting his turn for a body to inhabit (is this a story of reincarnation??), but sneaks off to the earthly plane to find a vessel for himself. In other words, he skips the queue. Owed to his experiments, professor Botts makes himself vulnerable to "inhabitation" and Ek takes advantage of this. In the meantime, Botts' actual spirit finds itself wandering the astral </span>plane<span style="font-family: inherit;">, disembodied and confused. He must wait until the little spirit Ek has enough of it's antics in Botts' body and leaves, to re-inhabit his own body. </span>Apparently<span style="font-family: inherit;"> all kinds of physical comedy ensues. From the descriptions that </span>survive<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the film, it sounds like a cross between the drunken nightmare in </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Dream of a Rarebit Fiend</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in Edwin S. Porter film from 1906 and a slapstick comedy from the 1910's such as one finds in an Arbuckle/St. John/Keaton film.</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9DP5HP_1XG5h75DhmTaWN-KqRlDNiNa3ke0GIDsR8O7P5JQgEk5OYT9p_NN580H8opoI2VXVsv0t3pmp_ac4B2KvO7d8-vr6ThqASNgS3Aadoq1NNE_x57WPjwagBvccAKJwNMcWZ866uo-bSNN2tn5WX1N7gY33Reb4WoQwupYdF032WZrqrO1xAA/s922/MV5BNjc0ZmIzY2EtMmQ2MS00ODJiLThkNjktNTkxMzBjY2Q3MjUyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjE0MjIxMTM@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="778" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9DP5HP_1XG5h75DhmTaWN-KqRlDNiNa3ke0GIDsR8O7P5JQgEk5OYT9p_NN580H8opoI2VXVsv0t3pmp_ac4B2KvO7d8-vr6ThqASNgS3Aadoq1NNE_x57WPjwagBvccAKJwNMcWZ866uo-bSNN2tn5WX1N7gY33Reb4WoQwupYdF032WZrqrO1xAA/w338-h400/MV5BNjc0ZmIzY2EtMmQ2MS00ODJiLThkNjktNTkxMzBjY2Q3MjUyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjE0MjIxMTM@._V1_.jpg" width="338" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And, in fact, the film was actually intended to be a vehicle for Roscoe Arbuckle; Will Rogers only took his place as the protagonist after the Virginia Rappe scandal broke early in the film's production. Arbuckle had been the main creative force behind the project; he had contributed the lion's share of the film's concept. The rest of the cast was little changed and included Lila Lee as the love interest, and Alan Hale Sr. Child actor John Fox was mocked up as Ek, who I am sure was thought to be silly by the make-up crew...but, really, come on, it comes off quite creepy today! Even by the standards of the day, Ek made an impression; and for a lost film, the image is pretty famous, making regular rounds on the social media sites every year around Halloween. <i>Famous Monsters of Filmland</i> magazine founder Forrest J. Ackerman, who is a GIANT in the science fiction (and horror) community, and is credited the coining "Sci-Fi" as a phrase, claimed that this was the film that sparked is life long love of both the science fiction and horror/monster genres. Some sources have it as the first film that he actually ever saw as a child. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHdx77Mk1EoCPxJYF6Xo9BhH9df7ScxQq5rXB4CtFqdA68qsNCqrdaOwalvKPl-MLaFciHTu59Dc4jXi36PVynNoItbBLGu0rajj3kyNR4sBiId_gTnA-B4-NhZ7wDAts0rdDoIscT0KFOJnjgGO1HjOAcYUbC4lJUZ-P-y6I0gNSY3Gwy-Y9SSge84Q/s640/640px-One_Glorious_Day_(1922)_-_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="640" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHdx77Mk1EoCPxJYF6Xo9BhH9df7ScxQq5rXB4CtFqdA68qsNCqrdaOwalvKPl-MLaFciHTu59Dc4jXi36PVynNoItbBLGu0rajj3kyNR4sBiId_gTnA-B4-NhZ7wDAts0rdDoIscT0KFOJnjgGO1HjOAcYUbC4lJUZ-P-y6I0gNSY3Gwy-Y9SSge84Q/w400-h311/640px-One_Glorious_Day_(1922)_-_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suviving photo from the set of the film (wikimedia commons)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As far as what the film might have been up to in regards to the supernatural, one of it's working titles, <i>Souls Before Birth</i>, gives a hint that Ek is indeed some sort of "pre-born" or even reiencarnated spirit. His incarnating within the body of the professor (taking temporary possession of) also seems to be a kind of precursor to "possession" films that we all so familiar with today; the most famous of which remains <i>The Exorcist</i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Below are a couple of lobby cards from the film.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoIFtmT2PzaoSKNJ8NYlAg4iry9TImVbCmX59sqNzuBFmvgx6DUDX4c3kUwpT6jGoi_-kLGynrrrzQr4moHSRP9YFfPn1mO26AO6Roi9P2u13fekYC16q7HTSkccrkXzX9H-VrxjI-XC77MzpQufLCTDbx9n8n9Z1ajHpn9_bHqYgF0capXQ4CAzwjQ/s750/MV5BZjE4MzQ5MTYtN2VlNy00ZDg2LThiMmYtMzUyNGYzNzJiNGY4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTcyODY2NDQ@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="750" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoIFtmT2PzaoSKNJ8NYlAg4iry9TImVbCmX59sqNzuBFmvgx6DUDX4c3kUwpT6jGoi_-kLGynrrrzQr4moHSRP9YFfPn1mO26AO6Roi9P2u13fekYC16q7HTSkccrkXzX9H-VrxjI-XC77MzpQufLCTDbx9n8n9Z1ajHpn9_bHqYgF0capXQ4CAzwjQ/w400-h311/MV5BZjE4MzQ5MTYtN2VlNy00ZDg2LThiMmYtMzUyNGYzNzJiNGY4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTcyODY2NDQ@._V1_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDx8c1q5gEelOL9I6Fx-0RA32kdh4TMP47Dbwr0AZgcPcguHPH4Mf5Ikq1tma_ssB7il7dCT7Z5CyZYMid9f5SGadKxC-jhySi2BLsZvaFZg0XK2UXUwaZUU-gBr85kqZjza8H0UPk1DRge5XSa_zTFrG47e_hvRzG1lDw7m8v4auNkpAhmNaJF_QgQ/s750/MV5BZWQ2ZTAxN2MtZDM5MS00N2UxLTg1YWMtMjQwMjFhMDZiNGY1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTcyODY2NDQ@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="750" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDx8c1q5gEelOL9I6Fx-0RA32kdh4TMP47Dbwr0AZgcPcguHPH4Mf5Ikq1tma_ssB7il7dCT7Z5CyZYMid9f5SGadKxC-jhySi2BLsZvaFZg0XK2UXUwaZUU-gBr85kqZjza8H0UPk1DRge5XSa_zTFrG47e_hvRzG1lDw7m8v4auNkpAhmNaJF_QgQ/w400-h311/MV5BZWQ2ZTAxN2MtZDM5MS00N2UxLTg1YWMtMjQwMjFhMDZiNGY1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTcyODY2NDQ@._V1_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>[Images in public domain, from Wikimedia and IMDb film photos]</p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-41258913196508432522022-10-20T09:45:00.006-04:002022-10-20T09:45:40.756-04:00October 19: The Mysterious Mirror [Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel] (1928)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-ZtCn_eKNvYXTijSKFVtP73fBx0577spH7ktMWNxfBLo7DCXhNarzVPyRydqm6_1BmnNwtYGqf_Bsg0fhan3cxqKvtnv-_o7CAlOa3_HIuvEQslvPloaXpS8BW5X6un9-ccgCRmeHuvwr4tNNaLnM73dw-000qeNcIacqMvjqN2ietZu1mBDOpFd4A/s1450/MV5BNzhmMTQ3YWQtMjViOS00MzM1LThmMDEtNDg1NjVjOGEzNDJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDUxNjc5NjY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-ZtCn_eKNvYXTijSKFVtP73fBx0577spH7ktMWNxfBLo7DCXhNarzVPyRydqm6_1BmnNwtYGqf_Bsg0fhan3cxqKvtnv-_o7CAlOa3_HIuvEQslvPloaXpS8BW5X6un9-ccgCRmeHuvwr4tNNaLnM73dw-000qeNcIacqMvjqN2ietZu1mBDOpFd4A/w442-h640/MV5BNzhmMTQ3YWQtMjViOS00MzM1LThmMDEtNDg1NjVjOGEzNDJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDUxNjc5NjY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">(or </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Mysterious Mirror/Mystic Mirror</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">) was a 1928 German silent fantasy set in a Bavarian schloss (castle). It was principally directed by Carl Hoffmann, who had been a prolific cinematographer since 1913 (Richard Tescher is credited as a co-director, it is his only known direction credit). Though the story is based on recognizable from fairy tales--such as magic mirrors found in tales from the Brothers Grimm--the script is credited solely to writer Robert Reinert, who had previously been a script writer for fantasy serials in German cinema. The story revolves around a mirror that is supposed to allow the gazer to see their future if they stare into on nights of a full moon (or, alternatively, when the moon is up). Usually what they see drives them into insanity and some into self-destruction. The protagonist of the film--a man who wishes to know his future for romantic reasons--is played by Fritz Rasp. Released the year after Fritz Lang's </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Metropolis</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, where Rasp was "The Thin Man;" there is little doubt that the film makers thought they could capitalize on casting Rasp and </span>using<span style="font-family: inherit;"> his name for promotion. The story is rather simple, Rasp's "mann" steals into the old edifice where the mirror "resides" on a bright </span>moonlit<span style="font-family: inherit;"> night, gazes into it, hates what he sees, smashes the mirror and then kills himself. After his death, the mirror reassembles itself, like it has likely done on countless occasions before. The description would lead one to believe that the film was a short, but it was in fact a feature and ran for nearly an hour and ten minutes. It was padded out with a story of gothic romance, featuring actress Fay Wall (aka Felicitas "Fee" Malten) in the part of Anna, the love interest. </span></span><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-53572707362674748192022-10-18T16:03:00.000-04:002022-10-18T16:03:17.038-04:00October 18: Go And Get It (1920) <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeOIyzH-OK5AiCOTVtSd_EFJMwoVaGfYpXsGRKTEKePNTH4TfWwaKO4EVIvHV8HfttYDZsgI-t9D7rmHRdlrlYp6gSmZ1Lg7qiDdYsIQcYYOEDkcgThShglJSucFiaST9TlFRj9nuZE8T6YbmpV_Y1P27LPF7cHafAazYIFqfmrQKRhmorEb7ILZ4G0A/s1662/MV5BOTQzNTFlNDQtNTcxZi00ZjhjLWFjZDUtMWM2MTg2NzgyYjI4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDgyNjA5MA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1662" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeOIyzH-OK5AiCOTVtSd_EFJMwoVaGfYpXsGRKTEKePNTH4TfWwaKO4EVIvHV8HfttYDZsgI-t9D7rmHRdlrlYp6gSmZ1Lg7qiDdYsIQcYYOEDkcgThShglJSucFiaST9TlFRj9nuZE8T6YbmpV_Y1P27LPF7cHafAazYIFqfmrQKRhmorEb7ILZ4G0A/w386-h640/MV5BOTQzNTFlNDQtNTcxZi00ZjhjLWFjZDUtMWM2MTg2NzgyYjI4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDgyNjA5MA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Go And Get It </i>is a relatively unknown feature length horror spoof from 1920. It's plot, like so many involving science fiction plots in the 1910's and 1920's, involves a gorilla or ape man. It was from Marshall Neilan Productions and Neilan was a co-director, along with Henry Robert Symonds. Agnes Ayers and Pat O'Malley are essentially the leads in the film, one as Helen Allen who has inherited a troubled newspaper from her father, and as Kirk Connelly an investigative reporter. There is a strong mystery element in the plot that involves both a string of unsolved murders and an attempt to ruin the Allen family business by person or persons unknown. The two team up to investigate and find that a mad scientist Dr. Ord (Noah Beery) has transplanted the brain of a criminal into the head of an ape (as one does). The hybrid creature then goes on rampage spree in much the same fashion as the killer in Poe's <i>Rue Morgue</i>. Former wrestler Bull Montana donned the gorilla/ape suit for shoot. The film ran/runs for an hour and ten minutes, and was remade in 1941 as <i>The Monster and the Girl</i> starring Ellen Drew and Robert Paige. For decades <i>Go and Get It</i> was listed as lost, when the Cineteca Italiana in Milan announced that they are a discovered a copy in their archive. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqcim9K4VUSskhFTgFvLCfm32HHPfKjypne4hlyD_vscIC58ktuXug_cURdZ5mboUoqMSS-EIt1CvfbRfFtJVcZuM1ax2k5sY_sShNNEe6i1b2Mi1nLSA0ykS9QY8Hu9DabQeyOP4wv0AadyYEajw9zEvXnwhL2rd7A7X2eKBvl2gRSB6uusm5UAAC2Q/s1183/Go_and_Get_It_(1920)_-_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1183" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqcim9K4VUSskhFTgFvLCfm32HHPfKjypne4hlyD_vscIC58ktuXug_cURdZ5mboUoqMSS-EIt1CvfbRfFtJVcZuM1ax2k5sY_sShNNEe6i1b2Mi1nLSA0ykS9QY8Hu9DabQeyOP4wv0AadyYEajw9zEvXnwhL2rd7A7X2eKBvl2gRSB6uusm5UAAC2Q/w640-h461/Go_and_Get_It_(1920)_-_2.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Print ad from the August 14, 1920 edition of <i>Exhibitors Herald</i> (Public Domain, retrieved from Wikipedia)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmnFZv-o8VqsJfdypERhwjzopNt469zGwe5fiCxmqu34nzvQ2DD498GKlv7dkSHWTTyn9wTc5Q0JQGa6TpKy8rlLLRogMDRWVioVh8ueQRCqoJi4WJMb4uBzFvv6VSUobz9vTyU9Px4AmQ4cxD5UpUjgohS0RraCOErF1gkW5Y7xsJQrf6G9EEtGXyzQ/s751/Go_and_Get_It_(1920)_-_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="751" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmnFZv-o8VqsJfdypERhwjzopNt469zGwe5fiCxmqu34nzvQ2DD498GKlv7dkSHWTTyn9wTc5Q0JQGa6TpKy8rlLLRogMDRWVioVh8ueQRCqoJi4WJMb4uBzFvv6VSUobz9vTyU9Px4AmQ4cxD5UpUjgohS0RraCOErF1gkW5Y7xsJQrf6G9EEtGXyzQ/w400-h344/Go_and_Get_It_(1920)_-_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Wikimedia Commons)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-54787965569042143392022-10-17T14:48:00.000-04:002022-10-17T14:48:10.574-04:00October 17: An Evil Power (1911)<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDedlTWo1xDYJBXTCQrtxYyFTL0RZAfnFkeHLzdotz7-UfHeb3BCh6KOLuUMhKzRcpl-q9-wrnO_R0ogE6GjrTzKAIbgiUyttn5quqg_PX25lqY67wybv1AkGPaW-3QW8JkZCj_kuApSoU90DOfkQ1_7EI3PamS77f3DjG7JWBEyn8J115hmxUIJUvpA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4037" data-original-width="2694" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDedlTWo1xDYJBXTCQrtxYyFTL0RZAfnFkeHLzdotz7-UfHeb3BCh6KOLuUMhKzRcpl-q9-wrnO_R0ogE6GjrTzKAIbgiUyttn5quqg_PX25lqY67wybv1AkGPaW-3QW8JkZCj_kuApSoU90DOfkQ1_7EI3PamS77f3DjG7JWBEyn8J115hmxUIJUvpA=w427-h640" width="427" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A flier poster for the 1911 Selig release </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">An Evil Power </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">from </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Moving Picture World. </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's plot revolves around a fake spiritualist/</span>hypnotist<span style="font-family: inherit;"> who sets out to part a young rich and newly engaged woman from her friends, family, and ultimately, her wealth (possibly also her life?). The film, which was written and directed by Francis (Frank) Boggs, seeks to throw light on con artists plying their trade via the world of spiritualism, which by the 1910's was an old story. The film, which is presumed lost, was by no means supernatural, or even mysterious; but did </span>apparently<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>include<span style="font-family: inherit;"> tropes like </span>hypnotism<span style="font-family: inherit;"> that would later be the bread and butter of horror monsters (like vampires) far and wide. It also contained (judging by descriptions in surviving materials) elements that would show up in plays and films like <i>Gaslight. </i>[A side note: Frank Boggs would himself die by homicide later in the year of 1911 on the 27th of October at the age of 41]</span></span></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-66800709288830392102022-10-16T19:08:00.001-04:002022-10-16T19:08:41.609-04:00October 16: Lotta Coin's Ghost (1915)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-9oDE2gI22w8R89rMJOC6NWkuC6xsjUBwRjPnFgyA8bDmzm1112y4To5ayB4KXJ55evcb9eH8DLSUrfc0UZUC-8iirYsqn6JNLqYdvG3YgWcpoelrqgLIIUtTDZkpRy5sb-YfKAl2grMEcp4q18-sePElCj_COv_BGPvIsxxUQIrFb_ctcAhKD1b45Q/s513/MV5BYmIyZTE4NWMtZjgzYy00MThmLWE0MDAtYmNkNjU4ZTVkMWM4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzQ2ODAzOTc@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-9oDE2gI22w8R89rMJOC6NWkuC6xsjUBwRjPnFgyA8bDmzm1112y4To5ayB4KXJ55evcb9eH8DLSUrfc0UZUC-8iirYsqn6JNLqYdvG3YgWcpoelrqgLIIUtTDZkpRy5sb-YfKAl2grMEcp4q18-sePElCj_COv_BGPvIsxxUQIrFb_ctcAhKD1b45Q/w632-h640/MV5BYmIyZTE4NWMtZjgzYy00MThmLWE0MDAtYmNkNjU4ZTVkMWM4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzQ2ODAzOTc@._V1_.jpg" width="632" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">Lotta Coin's Gold </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">(alternatively </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Lotta Coin's Ghost) </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">was a short supernatural spoof released 1915 from Kalem. This was one of the studio's Ham and Bud comedies. The Ham and Bud duo was made up of Lloyd Hamilton and Bud Duncan. The comic pair </span>lasted for 3 years<span style="font-family: inherit;"> at the company from 1914 to 1917; almost none of the films are known to have survived. This little comedy at least has a number of very detailed descriptions that describe the action from start to finish. It had Ham and Bud attempting to steal a nearly priceless necklace from a safe, and in the process getting spoofed by the heiress to whom the necklace belongs. Upon realizing that there are intruders in her home, she decides to don an all white sheet and scare the bejeezus out of them. The plan works so well that they flee the house in chaotic fright, and in doing so, Bud accidently gets himself entangled in another white sheet on a </span>clothesline<span style="font-family: inherit;">. Ham sees this and gets terrified all over again. As soon as he realizes the ghost is actually his side-kick, he chases after him and the film ends. Ham and Bud were early versions of comic duos that appeared in horror like comedies all the way up through the 1960's. Good examples can be found in the Abbott and Costello Universal monsters films of the 1950's. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgztD4Kj67eBGDfg93yt2CfR-NPOUpKdTC12W_T7N9qQlSLggESrxfHxkaKqAEjbZR6ZSiyuQUip8QEDreNpwklnrnO_JbCaY9WtCnUE-4VlQXrsC6xd2EkhP1K3FsNX1557aqG1t8DegqLaH5aK0ZYm7hwtdbshWvpakbYX5XB1p-6t6GCtFFm15YLXg/s1000/MV5BM2M0OTgzYWUtZjQ3My00NzRmLTkwZGItNzU3N2MzOTM3OGVkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDUyOTUyNQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgztD4Kj67eBGDfg93yt2CfR-NPOUpKdTC12W_T7N9qQlSLggESrxfHxkaKqAEjbZR6ZSiyuQUip8QEDreNpwklnrnO_JbCaY9WtCnUE-4VlQXrsC6xd2EkhP1K3FsNX1557aqG1t8DegqLaH5aK0ZYm7hwtdbshWvpakbYX5XB1p-6t6GCtFFm15YLXg/w640-h426/MV5BM2M0OTgzYWUtZjQ3My00NzRmLTkwZGItNzU3N2MzOTM3OGVkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDUyOTUyNQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-57930893912632509082022-10-15T15:58:00.003-04:002022-10-15T15:58:22.894-04:00October 15: Juxtaposing London After Midnight with The Mark Of The Vampire<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzh8Oscj-MMZKRqYqPJZ0m66zGlDeBToqayU7W7RgcU4zppH7qh78b-39g_W9K2kBVN9CJtoyCX3JlajTAjrjQE22Z3LVk3ZjaBIlE5WoID_7BUybytq55I9Zvk-46brSBPokjPnJvY7NvVuJY1vHlxWl0BdRWX1qd-45eDu-lxmp-3V40cnalFJ07A/s2962/London_After_Midnight_Poster_1927_MGM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2962" data-original-width="1956" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzh8Oscj-MMZKRqYqPJZ0m66zGlDeBToqayU7W7RgcU4zppH7qh78b-39g_W9K2kBVN9CJtoyCX3JlajTAjrjQE22Z3LVk3ZjaBIlE5WoID_7BUybytq55I9Zvk-46brSBPokjPnJvY7NvVuJY1vHlxWl0BdRWX1qd-45eDu-lxmp-3V40cnalFJ07A/w422-h640/London_After_Midnight_Poster_1927_MGM.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKP2R63MGJ78cAZLnBfNJK11OTEk5hKkEdqQF9We7Bw4T3mLZbCkd_w3SpSqtOjEmhdbgMiipcI8MrMxrG2mTqbv-J4PeM3dSpdUrIdATqVyySuvtAgI6shl0lw_iYkiQ55H4O8oObvPlv9TYVjRJhQ_-1P6Di2llyJVkuA1EgNxwiZXg_xdrgQMkWiA/s500/MV5BMTY4MTkxOTk1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjAyODgwMzE@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="350" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKP2R63MGJ78cAZLnBfNJK11OTEk5hKkEdqQF9We7Bw4T3mLZbCkd_w3SpSqtOjEmhdbgMiipcI8MrMxrG2mTqbv-J4PeM3dSpdUrIdATqVyySuvtAgI6shl0lw_iYkiQ55H4O8oObvPlv9TYVjRJhQ_-1P6Di2llyJVkuA1EgNxwiZXg_xdrgQMkWiA/w448-h640/MV5BMTY4MTkxOTk1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjAyODgwMzE@._V1_.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Director Tod Browning remade his <i>London After Midnight</i> (1927) as <i>The Mark of the Vampire</i> in 1935. His original intent was to have Lon Chaney reprise his role of the professor, but Chaney died at the age of 47 in 1930. The next logical choice was Bela Lugosi whom Browning had directed in <i>Dracula</i> in 1931. Today a full print of the <i>London</i> is one of the most sought after films in the world. <i>Mark of the Vampire</i> however, is very much intact and available for viewing. 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The plot carries the (even by this time) well worn story of a group of people gathered at a creepy mansion for the reading of a will. It was made for First National and was, believe it or not, directed by Benjamin Christensen (who gave us <i>Häxan</i>). It was released in November of 1928 and ran for an hour and ten minutes. A partial silent version with a musical score and sound effects had a limited release, while the fully silent version was more widely distributed. 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="965" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKsoxDJ2BEhNLwmD8JtqaBXWf-FEOB27LAdILItfpfTzMutNZv0AQ1O7nr86XaUZ8p9c_iTFkJz1OMQZ0EozY4JL7KXF5SReqj0VDwwgkhwQIptui1jiXpuZfbi06ZUonL6Ge_L9by4-7CatjeSBk_R59Ec0l9c0liiBrQ82QAV2tdzlxAURDEELoYQQ/w640-h448/MV5BMTkwNjBkMTItODAwYS00OTY5LThmNDItNTEwYjU2ZDgzYzRmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDY1NzU5NjY@._V1_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here is what is left of the 1915 serial <i>The Black Box</i>. The entire serial is lost to us and, for a series that had 15 chapters and a total running time of 195 minutes (or just a little over 3 hours), there are precious few surviving materials. It was released in increments starting in the spring of 1915. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuYCOITjQnUTDNwiEzAQkcRKQAmlB4hUzg92My2ne5DLMuBU-9OUWz2E145IUjdO3vYCNc1Ujg36o22WE8dQxpyjRfgrxIaPVOaAKQb0K7NMiGucFgLXzqLY0xnVDXCgIRRnh4u-8aOnP9JKqhPT9sEJ58UIBblbyQVMB_DjXNe9KdJJh_CzGJIIiHFw/s744/The_Black_Box_(1915)_-_23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="744" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuYCOITjQnUTDNwiEzAQkcRKQAmlB4hUzg92My2ne5DLMuBU-9OUWz2E145IUjdO3vYCNc1Ujg36o22WE8dQxpyjRfgrxIaPVOaAKQb0K7NMiGucFgLXzqLY0xnVDXCgIRRnh4u-8aOnP9JKqhPT9sEJ58UIBblbyQVMB_DjXNe9KdJJh_CzGJIIiHFw/s320/The_Black_Box_(1915)_-_23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxC0ie4Hpd7fuyVbnVu-Rt2WRsVmflpgFJ2ZD7X_dra88araVxGcPTFjHhmeIxroLEQMY2EqfHbq7aSpbnL2pnZQLq-JwYbkWyFxj61aQDx_Q9y85-6QUryukoFpN1piyq8hovVqDtYbbuWmrtgRWPedoloxJQyaYTPptVJU_x5JFOtHxu98TUjgjs8g/s849/MV5BMDIxOTIxNzItZTVjZS00NDgxLTg1YTQtN2U4YmZhN2ZjODQwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODgxNDk3NjI@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxC0ie4Hpd7fuyVbnVu-Rt2WRsVmflpgFJ2ZD7X_dra88araVxGcPTFjHhmeIxroLEQMY2EqfHbq7aSpbnL2pnZQLq-JwYbkWyFxj61aQDx_Q9y85-6QUryukoFpN1piyq8hovVqDtYbbuWmrtgRWPedoloxJQyaYTPptVJU_x5JFOtHxu98TUjgjs8g/s320/MV5BMDIxOTIxNzItZTVjZS00NDgxLTg1YTQtN2U4YmZhN2ZjODQwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODgxNDk3NjI@._V1_.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The series was considered a science fiction mystery and involved mysterious black boxes in which messages from an unknown killer are delivered to authorities. A private investigator decides to look into the matter. We know that these series contained various elements of horror, including an ape man and an invisibility cloak. The whole series was directed by Otis Turner for Universal. The detective Sanford Quest was played by Herbert Rawlinson, who would go on to be a prolific character actor in the 1940's and 1950's. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDOwfs3jhl-PkU_xx1ii-nMXqJn6jEAxUWCrh-1rA9c_G-7hFD3EZBfsvtPIsmPuxhCDiArSX95g6G9CTcLgBdDDFUSTaqtoEPIPKSpSzwsaO9u9rT2heOShvPTlJNnPYzUciZ4U0bE6RLA5jKlcEhnXKX9rbmc_x_A5UF221yyONQankBBC54AcRjaQ/s893/MV5BNDBlNDZhZjMtODk3YS00MDU5LThmMzItMzkxMjExMTZhYmNlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDUyOTUyNQ@@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="893" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDOwfs3jhl-PkU_xx1ii-nMXqJn6jEAxUWCrh-1rA9c_G-7hFD3EZBfsvtPIsmPuxhCDiArSX95g6G9CTcLgBdDDFUSTaqtoEPIPKSpSzwsaO9u9rT2heOShvPTlJNnPYzUciZ4U0bE6RLA5jKlcEhnXKX9rbmc_x_A5UF221yyONQankBBC54AcRjaQ/w400-h300/MV5BNDBlNDZhZjMtODk3YS00MDU5LThmMzItMzkxMjExMTZhYmNlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDUyOTUyNQ@@._V1_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVmS4p8PVA6FNAMHoM4vXDkMmMvcnDSJ_lKLtHBcJhjYjfX1ehXj3vmj6tZ_1gqNeP9hJrhuXbmQgkxMN-ugd4AyZcDTTFa-r9M2wSoqorsANHR9CMvb-fTSwC177WiKuJvhvWrJJkHa1bTihx5RyEj93x6DTx7yFu5S50_BAG5FhCMAMv3OLC5sgb4w/s2586/MV5BNzJkMWQ1Y2ItMjQ2My00MGI5LTk1YTAtOWIyMTFlMGNjZmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzg1ODEwNQ@@._V1_.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2586" data-original-width="1715" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVmS4p8PVA6FNAMHoM4vXDkMmMvcnDSJ_lKLtHBcJhjYjfX1ehXj3vmj6tZ_1gqNeP9hJrhuXbmQgkxMN-ugd4AyZcDTTFa-r9M2wSoqorsANHR9CMvb-fTSwC177WiKuJvhvWrJJkHa1bTihx5RyEj93x6DTx7yFu5S50_BAG5FhCMAMv3OLC5sgb4w/w424-h640/MV5BNzJkMWQ1Y2ItMjQ2My00MGI5LTk1YTAtOWIyMTFlMGNjZmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzg1ODEwNQ@@._V1_.jpg" width="424" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>One of Robert Wiene's forgotten horrors, <i>Geniune: The Tradegy of the Vampire </i>is worth a mention this October. It is not well known today and only a 45 minute condensed version is available for public screening. While it may not be one of Weine's finest efforts, it is a solid supernatural thriller. It also worth seeking out for the simple reason that it shows that not every German expressionist film is brilliant by default. As a cinema experience, it is<span style="font-family: inherit;"> a deeply </span>unsettling<span style="font-family: inherit;"> film; not in that it's scary, it has something more like a fun house effect. It's sets are highly graphic, in the artistic sense; t</span></span><span>hey were overly garish even by </span>contemporary<span> expressionistic standards of 1920.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Many of them don't seem to fit or match in a way that allow the eyes to easily settle into the viewing (set pieces include a skeleton with a clock for head). </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Since it was directed by Robert Wiene, it is obviously going to be compared to his masterpiece </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Even if we, as movie fans, tried to keep from doing this, it is really inevitable. Of course, when we talk about our experience of the film, it comes with the understanding that no one outside of screenings at the Munich City Film Museum has seen the full print in decades. What we have is the </span>condensed<span style="font-family: inherit;"> 45 minute version, and if you have the Kino release (as in extra on their </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Caligari</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> release) you at least get the original tinting. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgixnr9savS-WPjoWVZfNh-u-W8VixuwIpU34NQ1c_nQFI7BRacrgruqkuqPXycTtgiNWE3pm1HAO2rujONKXFisdQA4hWP3Exnmlnfk-bpqUEbca6lhtuY2jp6v5p-fWFGA970huFFeyfpcEbhrQBTAsvg9OxElayUCjfEIqCBNrkC6M8eBFKGEaRlQ/s475/GenuineImage-1-475x361.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="475" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgixnr9savS-WPjoWVZfNh-u-W8VixuwIpU34NQ1c_nQFI7BRacrgruqkuqPXycTtgiNWE3pm1HAO2rujONKXFisdQA4hWP3Exnmlnfk-bpqUEbca6lhtuY2jp6v5p-fWFGA970huFFeyfpcEbhrQBTAsvg9OxElayUCjfEIqCBNrkC6M8eBFKGEaRlQ/w640-h486/GenuineImage-1-475x361.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>As mentioned above, the film was released in 1920 well after <i>The Cabinet of Caligari</i>, but met with much less success<i>. </i>Screenwriter Carl Mayer (who penned a number a surviving and famous silents, including <i>Cabinet</i> & Murnau's <i>Sunrise</i>) wrote the script solo and the cast is sparse. </span>The story is quite simple, the narrative not being much at all; rather the story is told through a lot of physical acting. As for the monster; Genuine is in fact not a "traditional" vampire as we have come to categorize them as undead immortal beings, but rather a succubus. In that regard the movie is harkening back to the older "vamp" movies of the 1910's--a very American film trope really. And yet, Geniune <i>is </i>more vampiric than those earlier vamps--and significantly more supernatural. So, I would say that the film falls somewhere in the middle of old and new female monsters: not quite human, but but not quite immortal either. She is described as ancient and her behavior leads one to believe that she is actually a real succubus of some sort, not just a cruel woman out for men's wealth. And yet, she is also deeply manipulative like many of the vamps in films like the famously lost Fox production <i>A Fool There Was, </i>starring the vamp herself: Theda Bara. She bares closest resemblance to what we would call an "energy vampire."</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zDKIrbyz8Aivz8e9BkNDS3sqdgyVmNA8tOTtYGWRCCiGcivK9RhlEGcoH85mlLOeYeCyFlAlt8EywyNuSHaYLzI-5RjhnGZouJOeRh_YuTsJuzJtzbf0sLb87j9zoFQ_4XOJDKJT28y67i3YtDXxGV4kRGZ6LoA5hN4D-mXBjLio8ZKUQCPqDFRUWA/s500/wikimedia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zDKIrbyz8Aivz8e9BkNDS3sqdgyVmNA8tOTtYGWRCCiGcivK9RhlEGcoH85mlLOeYeCyFlAlt8EywyNuSHaYLzI-5RjhnGZouJOeRh_YuTsJuzJtzbf0sLb87j9zoFQ_4XOJDKJT28y67i3YtDXxGV4kRGZ6LoA5hN4D-mXBjLio8ZKUQCPqDFRUWA/w640-h480/wikimedia.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />If you haven't already seen it, the is the perfect season to seek it out for a watch. It may not scare you silly, but it is a funky little curiosity from one of Germany's finest early directors. <br /></span></span><p></p><p><br /></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-41690765260288987222022-10-11T17:08:00.007-04:002022-10-11T17:08:45.971-04:00October 11: J. Searle Dawley's Snow White (Highly Recommended!)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMs1TJ-Iq4KfXVdUic5R6RwQMvMZbq7oklSftEOC-ahVmRbaytFTytYAisJrPeifWjy4LFhYjG201DCuao1EY4E96uaifLONBJo3iXEBktdc0AxXkluRe-Ikn0_TF4JReb9YilLPH4NKsV0xLy3mqIepnx9pOx0XwQwzRF56dPT3hyi_ugOz-UsqzZFA/s1394/Snow_White_1916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="876" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMs1TJ-Iq4KfXVdUic5R6RwQMvMZbq7oklSftEOC-ahVmRbaytFTytYAisJrPeifWjy4LFhYjG201DCuao1EY4E96uaifLONBJo3iXEBktdc0AxXkluRe-Ikn0_TF4JReb9YilLPH4NKsV0xLy3mqIepnx9pOx0XwQwzRF56dPT3hyi_ugOz-UsqzZFA/w402-h640/Snow_White_1916.jpg" width="402" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Rwcn5pbxlrxlMcEoLku2jH38-0HeWEwlcq4DzRNqLzszAYXdqUVmVCombCGmZhhrs2jHu-V4zEZHMWeOKfm_W-V_PO8URxbT2blFnEAdtuqEbYpt53ouyu5763CvkENTW4HyZMGvJ-ddXL7-VmvUJqzm7LddwzXrqC-s9qR9P3Gues3R6P5PRXs-hg/s567/MV5BMmE4ODJjOWYtODg4ZS00YzgwLTlkZGItYjMxMzEyMjllMjQ1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDUxNjc5NjY@._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Rwcn5pbxlrxlMcEoLku2jH38-0HeWEwlcq4DzRNqLzszAYXdqUVmVCombCGmZhhrs2jHu-V4zEZHMWeOKfm_W-V_PO8URxbT2blFnEAdtuqEbYpt53ouyu5763CvkENTW4HyZMGvJ-ddXL7-VmvUJqzm7LddwzXrqC-s9qR9P3Gues3R6P5PRXs-hg/w283-h400/MV5BMmE4ODJjOWYtODg4ZS00YzgwLTlkZGItYjMxMzEyMjllMjQ1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDUxNjc5NjY@._V1_.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">J. Searle Dawley is one of cinema's earliest and most prolific directors. In his directing career, that spanned almost twenty years, he helmed almost 200 films, many of them shorts, but he also made an impressive number of films that ran for an hour or more. More impressive still, was his embrace of a wide range of genres. He started his career in 1907 at Edison. From the start he distinguished himself at the company as the go-to man for any film subject and for his efficiency and speed of production; something that he excelled at, and yet, the end product did not suffer from it (Dawley had been in the directing business so long that he even directed D.W. Griffith in a role before Griffith himself became a director). His films included horror and, in fact, today his most famous film is <i>Frankenstein</i> dating from 1910 (the first known film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novella). As for genre's, he seemed to have a special flare for more fanciful stories (as the special effects in <i>Frankenstein</i> prove) and in 1916 he tackled the Grimm brothers' <i>Snow White </i>for Famous Players (as the contemporary poster above indicates, it was distributed by Paramount). The film starred Marguerite Clark as Snow White, Dorothy Cumming as the queen and Alice Washburn as a very impressive Witch Hex. Running a little over an hour, it is feature length and was a big success at the box office (there is story that it was the first film Walt Disney ever saw, I have no idea if that was apocryphal or not, but it does demonstrate how wide and popular the release of the film was). Part of that success may lie in that it was adapted from a popular Broadway production of the tale, but certainly Dawley's direction prowess was also key (Disney <i>did</i> admire the film enough that it inspired the inspiration for his own animated version in 1937). The film is also one of Dawley's earlier feature length films that still survives intact and his been released in many editions for home viewing. It is one Dawley's finest and is a great edition to any silent Halloween film lineup.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-kzg1kJ2qsDZRkKWSoJymmFClqxPdwoivV5c2rF_Doxyv_2eIddfY9BdyKsd1mPC84zAO78U6XkY0STokkYvvk9WgpKIT2Bqt1wczyxVGtIoHXfVg-RT1XNkKAnPDnnLNmIebf9vj4E82xv4wlA_fEIZ9iMbFx54_6PUaKYL_qv0Ge500FW-nbqCeA/s840/Snow-White-1916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="840" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-kzg1kJ2qsDZRkKWSoJymmFClqxPdwoivV5c2rF_Doxyv_2eIddfY9BdyKsd1mPC84zAO78U6XkY0STokkYvvk9WgpKIT2Bqt1wczyxVGtIoHXfVg-RT1XNkKAnPDnnLNmIebf9vj4E82xv4wlA_fEIZ9iMbFx54_6PUaKYL_qv0Ge500FW-nbqCeA/w640-h458/Snow-White-1916.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Semetra Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399117119230790169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889466422126282451.post-84718259171278979012022-10-10T20:40:00.004-04:002022-10-10T20:40:26.712-04:00October 10: Just A Few Silent Horror Film Posters<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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