The Silent Hall of Fame uploaded a very nice print of Charlie Chaplin's "A Day’s Pleasure" (1919) to Archive.org. Compare it to the version on YouTube.
Here's the YouTube upload:
And Archive.org's copy is at the top of this post. Read the rest
GIF: John Keats, 1785-1921.
Enjoy this beautiful, creepy, ethereal short ambient ambient video loop by Bill Domonkos, a filmmaker, GIF maker and stereoscopist. Read the rest
The Twitter account @silentmoviegifs shared these simple images that explain how special effects were completed during the silent film era. You can find the whole collection on Imgur.
How a background was added to a shot from Modern Times using a glass matte painting shot pic.twitter.com/4EddbfTOh8
— Silent Movie Gifs (@silentmoviegifs) January 6, 2017
The end result in Modern Times (1936), looks like Chaplin is really in danger of going over the edge pic.twitter.com/2qjjzU04WX
— Silent Movie Gifs (@silentmoviegifs) January 6, 2017
Buster Keaton seamlessly combines a matte shot and a crazy stunt in Sherlock Jr. (1924) pic.twitter.com/kSA9hMkcQg
— Silent Movie Gifs (@silentmoviegifs) January 7, 2017
By placing a plate of glass partially painted black in front of the camera, Keaton on the motorcycle was filmed separately from the trucks pic.twitter.com/KHEiamPWES
— Silent Movie Gifs (@silentmoviegifs) January 7, 2017
Mary Pickford kisses herself in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)One of the most technically impressive double-exposure shots of the silent era pic.twitter.com/lG0nTF861g
— Silent Movie Gifs (@silentmoviegifs) January 5, 2017
This is how cinematographer Charles Rosher achieved the effect. The three-second shot took 15 hours of work to get right pic.twitter.com/QZd6VcRvzR
— Silent Movie Gifs (@silentmoviegifs) January 5, 2017
Find the rest of the images on Imgur. Read the rest
These lantern slides on silent movie theatre etiquette from the 1910s show that inconsiderate audience members have existed since the dawn of cinema. They're collected in Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture. Read the rest
