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batman Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie re-edited as a silent film Thom Dunn

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silent films "How a Mosquito Operates" is a 1912 animation by Winsor McCay Popkin

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pixar Pixar made this 4-minute vintage version of Monsters Inc and it's terrific Carla Sinclair

Vintage Weird The Panicky Picnic is a brilliant silent film from from 1909 Popkin

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music video A wonderfully eerie stop-motion silent film about a ghost falling through the multiverse Thom Dunn

music Members of Flaming Lips and Los Lobos score Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923) David Pescovitz

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Science This 1900 film of a solar eclipse may be the oldest footage of an astronomical event ever (video) David Pescovitz

Vintage Weird Princess Nicotine: an enchanting short film from 1909 Popkin

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