Showing posts with label Silent Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silent Halloween. Show all posts
Monday, October 10, 2022
Saturday, October 1, 2022
October 1: Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel (1900)
The Uncle Josh series by the Edison studio was among the first narrative film series to feature a recurrent character. It was also very much in the slapstick vein. In this film, which runs a little less than 2 minutes, Uncle Josh finds himself in a haunted hotel with a decidedly mischievous ghost and a less than understanding hotel manager. These films, another of which, Uncle Josh's Nightmare (1900), is in a same narrative ball park, are examples of the very wide influence that French filmmaker Georges Méliès had on early fantasy films. Edison, never to be a "one upped" by anyone, felt the need to make "trick films" in-house. They are fun to watch, but never match the brilliance of Méliès earlier (and later) works. Director Edwin S. Porter was a fine filmmaker in his own right, and left to his own devices, was also an innovator. But in this style of film making, which involved a lot of editing, the finished product comes off as a bit of a lazy rip off. But, still, these little films are fun to watch and deserve their place in American cinematic history as being some of the earliest examples of the fantasy genre produced in the United States.
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Sunday, October 10, 2021
List Of My Silent Horror Sunday Viewing
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Haunted House (1921)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
The House of the Devil (1896)
The House of Ghosts (1906)
The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1895)
Frankenstein (1910)
The Golem: How He Came Into The World (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
The Unknown (1927)
The Cat and The Canary (1927)
Häxan (1922)
Faust (1926)
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Friday, October 20, 2017
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Monday, October 16, 2017
Silent Halloween
Gary Cooper and Fay Wray at Halloween costume party in 1931 (they both got their starts in the silent industry)
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Monday, October 9, 2017
Silent Halloween
More Clara Bow Halloween 1929
Thought I would post this today since it is "Columbus Day"--which given my personal ancestry is an a front...So, I give you one of the great things Native America has given the world: Pumpkins! Columbus didn't discover a thing! But Clara, sure looks cute here. I love the axe!
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017
Thursday, October 5, 2017
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