Scare Me On Fridays: Random Hitchcock: The Farmer's Wife (1928)

Scare Me On Fridays: Random Hitchcock: The Farmer's Wife (1928): An Oldie to be sure, this was a directorial project handed over to Hitchcock to fix up, it's screenplay was adapted from a popular Lo...

Home schooling and home business has kept me from blogging much at all this year here or over at my Native Food spot New World Food I have kept up with blogging at my Friday Fright spot; this week's theme are random Hitchcock movies from a grab bag.  Hitchcock's silent work that has survived is not well known, aside from, perhaps, The Lodger.  So, we're viewing The Farmer's Wife from 1929 (and my cats, who hate silent film, really want to kill me right now...).  And (!) with the school year winding down, I am absolutely going to be blogging here much more often!  Because I just love writing about silent film!  Happy Spring!  Happy Mother's Day too!

Extra, Extra!: The Artist Wins The Oscar!!

Scare Me On Fridays: Sunrise (1927)

Scare Me On Fridays: Sunrise (1927): OK, this is listed at the very first Best Picture Oscar awarded, but there a little history here that reveals a strange Academy Award fac...

A Silent Takes The Golden Globe!

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 length silent would be up for that category....but no way is it going to win.  The nomination just seemed like a long shot in the first place.  Boy was I soooo wrong!!  Glad to be wrong!  Congrats to everyone involved!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

I was busy with Christmas Evening wrapping yesterday that I didn't get my last day's countdown to Christmas up...heck I didn't even have time for email!  So I'm doubling up today

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

The first film is a funny little silent film I found on You Tube.  It proves that not all silent movies need to be really old!

This next "movie" is a clip of numerous Christmas silents from all sorts of sources.  Have a Merry one, one and all!

Countdown To Christmas Day 5

Classic early stop motion animation from pre-revolutionary Russia!!  

The Insect's Christmas (1913)

Countdown To Christmas 4

Yet another Edison Christmas short, but this is one of the company's earliest, dating from 1905.  Of all of Edwin S. Porter's directed holiday shorts, I tend to favor his earliest work.  They just have a glint of silvery charm to them.

Countdown To Christmas Day 3

A CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT (1912)

Yet another Edison Christmas short.  It's a little funny, the one earliest Edison Christmas short from 1907 that I'd really like to present here has never been uploaded to You Tube, even though, arguably, it as a great deal more charm than do many of the company's later Holiday efforts.  This film, however, is quite charming and not directed by the rather "true to life" stark style original in-house director Edwin S. Porter, but rather by a later Edison hire:  Bannister Merwin, who was primarily a writer.  Hope you enjoy.  

Countdown To Christmas Day 2

A Winter Straw Ride (1906)

Another Edison holiday short, this was photographed and directed by one of motion pictures very first director's Edwin S. Porter.  It's only 7 minutes long, so give it a look.  Happy Holidays!

Countdown To Christmas Day 1

This is another Edison Christmas short produced in 1914, I wanted to juxtapose it with the earlier Little Girl Who Didn't Believe In Santa from 1907 because their plots are almost polar opposites of each other, but alas no "Little Girl" on You Tube and I am way to busy trying to catch up on Christmas stuff to upload it right now--maybe later.


In any case, this is quite funny, considering "the wrong Santa" is a bugling burglar!