Silent Wierdness

1807-1903 French dramatist Ernest Legouve was born Valentine's Day in Paris; his birth name was Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest...

1688-1763 French writer Pierre de Marivaux, more popularly known simply as Marivaux, was born Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Mariva...

1841-1899 France's future president Faure was born Félix François on this date in Paris.  He was the son of a furniture maker....

Early Car Chase:   Les Vampires 1915-16.

Another haunted Melies short from the 1890' s.

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...

Part of a crime serial of the 1910's out of France.  There were 5 episodes total in the years 1913 and 1914 and all were dire...

When I saw that The Artist  was nominated for best picture at the Golden Globes I thought it was really cool that a modern full lengt...

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...

It's a real pleasure being able to embed this little known Melies film.  It was found in an antique trunk purchased by Lobster Films ...

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...

Finally episode 10 of the ground breaking French serial  Les Vampires .  My edition is the two disc edition put out in 2005 (which sadly ...

This is Part Seven of Les Vampires --entitled Satanas.  For the Wikipedia entry on the series, click  here

Here is part 5 of the 10 episodes of Les Vampires :