Silent Wierdness

 

  The Uncle Josh series by the Edison studio was among the first narrative film series to feature a recurrent character. It was also very mu...

  I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't feature a Méliès film in the first week of Spooktober, so I am going with one of his lesser ...

Back from dealing with Hurricane Michael yesterday, and wanted to share a little Mèliés flummery to express my sense of relief! This da...

Méliès film La Chaudron Infernal  or The Infernal Boiling Pot was released 114 years ago today.  It is now considered one of the earl...

I just happened to be watching a streaming episode of the very quirky and strangely entertaining cartoon Uncle Grandpa  yesterday, w...

I know I posted this last year, but I'm such a Melies fan, I figured, what the hell....re-post!  This represented one of the earl...

Another haunted Melies short from the 1890' s.

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

A Melies Film.  You might want to think twice about staying in this Hotel!

This is a "real life trick photo film" that was produced by the  American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. , the filmmakers working ...

If this looks like a Meliésé film...it's not.  It is a film by early Spanish "trick" film maker  Segundo de Chomon , who, th...