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Classic Cinema Online

Turtles all the way down — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:28:11 -0800

Classic Cinema Online. A ton of old movies watchable in an embedded player.

Give It The Ol' Goat Gland Job.

flipyourwig — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:37:56 -0800

"Goat Gland" referred to a completed silent film in which one or more talking sequences/musical numbers were added in an attempt to make the film more marketable to talkie-crazed filmgoers. Hollywood's Defensive Strategies - Remakes and “Goat Glands" One expedient for making a sound film was to recycle former silent box-office hits as newly made talkies. Warner Bros. redid THE GREEN GODDESS (1930) and THE GOLD DIGGERS (as GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY, 1929). First National’s successes THE ISLE OF LOST SHIPS (1929) was revived as a sound remake. Paramount chose GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE. REDEMPTION (1930) and ANNA CHRISTIE (1930) raised Irving Thalberg’s hope for second-time success at MGM. Universal joined the remake bandwagon with a new version of the studio’s all-time top moneymaker, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1930). For this film, members of the cast of the 1925 original reassembled, including Mary Philbin. Lon Chaney refused to participate because he was holding out for a huge speaking bonus at MGM; it is unlikely that Thalberg would have lent him to Universal anyway. In order to be able to reuse Chaney’s performance, the studio interpolated new dialogue footage into the old silent film.

BRUCE WAYNE masters SCIENCE and ATHLETICS.

EarBucket — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:23:51 -0800

Andre Perkowski has remixed various classic silent films, including The Bat and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to create a silent 1920's version of Batman: Origin Story, Rogues' Gallery.

Also: Adam West in The Dark Knight Returns.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

miss lynnster — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:36:12 -0800

Charlie Chaplin Filter. That first link features 60 of his short films. Here's more: A Dog's Life (1918, 35 minutes) The Kid (1921, 67 minutes) A Woman of Paris (1923, 84 minutes) The Gold Rush (1925, 71 minutes) The Great Dictator (1940, 125 minutes) Monsieur Verdoux (1947, 133 minutes) City Lights (1931, 87 minutes) His final directorial effort was A Countess From Hong Kong (1967, 120 minutes), in which he had a cameo. Chaplin accepting his honorary Oscar on April 10, 1972, as part of his first visit to the United States in 20 years.

Silent Film

TrialByMedia — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:33:20 -0800

Enjoy some silent film this week: Battleship Potemkin. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The General. The Immigrant. Haxan. Intolerance (1, 2, 3). Nosferatu.

Photoplayer

dhammond — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:22:05 -0800

A mainstay of the old-timey cinema era, the Photoplayer was a pump organ designed for player piano rolls, sound effects and a human composer. [Courtesy of Huell Howser]

http://silent-movies.com/

hama7 — Tue, 18 May 2004 11:16:41 -0800

Silent Movies.