Silent Wierdness

Early British filmmaker Cecil Hepworth, creator of Hepworth Mfg. Co., created the trick short by putting a camera directly in the pat...

It is United Nations Day, and over at the  Scare Me On Fridays  blog spot we are celebrating with a Countdown To Halloween theme o...

This is the very first film of the story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.  It was released in 1905 and is now completely lost (please ch...

An odd little newsreel from 1905.  Newsreels were the "television" of the silent era.

It's strange that this is actually the world's first feature film; strange because it's Australian.  Moving pictures were ...

Over at my  Scare Me On Fridays blog  we are celebrating the second day of the Countdown to Halloween with a  Science Fiction theme, s...

Yet another Edison Christmas short, but this is one of the company's earliest, dating from 1905.  Of all of Edwin S. Porter's dir...

A Winter Straw Ride (1906) Another Edison holiday short, this was photographed and directed by one of motion pictures very first di...

Also known as "The Made Motorist" it is listed on the catalogs of Science Fiction films.  It is certainly a hilarious litt...

This embed if from the good folks over at  Internet Archive .  It looks strangely out sized in the post, but it does play; it's proba...

This is the original Le voyage dans la lune  or The Trip to the Moon fro 1902 by cinematic pioneer of the "trick film" George...