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Post by Oss Rae on Feb 2, 2023 9:44:28 GMT -8
Female movie makers were a lot more common in silent cinema than is commonly recognized. Alice Guy was the first known filmmaker to have used movies for telling stories (circa 1890s).
In later years Lois Weber pioneered many filmmaking techniques (D.W. Griffith wasn't the only one to do so) and was even Mayor of Universal City on an all-female ticket. These two videos are about Weber. (The second one is shorter but has additional information the longer one doesn't.)
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Post by Oss Rae on Mar 3, 2023 10:06:49 GMT -8
Wish this would be translated to English!
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Post by silent films on Mar 3, 2023 16:36:52 GMT -8
Wish this would be translated to English!
Click on the "CC" button in the lower right. Click the Gears button (settings) Click on Subtitles -> Auto-Generate pick English
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Post by anni on Mar 4, 2023 9:39:55 GMT -8
Totally works! Thanks silent films!!!
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Post by Oss Rae on Apr 21, 2023 17:26:22 GMT -8
Here's an Alice Guy movie with an all-black cast.
I'm guessing the movie got a restricted release due to racism (though there were a lot of black theaters). Ten years later Hal Roach tried to start a series of comedy shorts featuring all-black kids, but a lot of theaters refused to show it. Roach settled for an integrated cast, and Our Gang/Little Rascals was born.
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Post by silent film on Jun 17, 2023 9:12:41 GMT -8
He has a hand crank 35 mm film projector which he uses in his shows to show silent movies.
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Post by silent film on Jun 17, 2023 10:48:29 GMT -8
www.nitrateville.com/this has active discussion boards on silent movies, including one section that lists upcoming screenings.
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Post by silent film on Jul 13, 2023 17:05:23 GMT -8
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Post by Oss Rae on Jul 17, 2023 21:41:25 GMT -8
Thank you! I'm putting it on my calendar! I used to see movies at the Sierra Madre Playhouse in the early '70s (the last one I saw there was Murder on the Orient Express in '75, spring-ish), and I know it was showing movies for decades before then. (For a long time it was known as the Bogart.)
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