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One question that crops up frequently is:"This music I am hearing accompanying this silent film... Is it the original music? The stuff that was actually played when it was released?"And
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Georges Méliès attempts to slay an evil fairy in THE KINGDOM OF THE FAIRIES. It doesn't go so well.The color was applied by hand on each individual print with tiny
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Okay, so here is a rundown of my international silent film review progress.My goal: Review at least one silent film from every country that made them.UK:https://moviessilently.com/2017/04/13/rescued-by-rover-1905-a-silent-film-review/ Franc
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Wikipedia is trying to kill me this morning."Most of the famous actors from the Silent Era, who were primarily pantomimes, had untrained voices and were incapable of expressing the necessary
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So, before we commence with our #Dec31Ivanhoe watchathon, here's a very brief rundown of the original novel.Sir Walter Scott's bid ol' brick of a novel played into the Regency/Victorian romanticizing
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The films selected for the Lumière brothers' December 28, 1895 commercial screening were meant to showcase the strengths of the movie camera.Animation existed BEFORE live action films, movement was not
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The December 28, 1895 Lumière screening is often listed as the first.Not really. It's an important and influential milestone but there were commercial screenings in Berlin and Atlanta prior to
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Paramount location map indicating which parts of California and Nevada could stand in for international destinations. Disclaimer Because Internet:I did not make this map.I posted it because it is interesting.If
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Raymond Hatton plays an embezzler who fakes his own death and abandons his wife in THE WHISPERING CHORUS (1918). The film used highly symbolic imagery to convey the voices in
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Gaumont's talking pictures, which were commercially successful in the 1910s.Al Jolson who? Sound had been experimented with since the beginning. The Dickson Experimental Sound Film of 1894 had no words
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Regarding historical fiction films:Yes, making a good movie is important and slavishly following history to the detriment of art is foolish.BUT90% of the myths about silent films come directly from
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Most silent films had some form of color, most often tinting or toning.Pre-tinted film was available or sections of the prints could be custom tinted chemically.Tinting colored the light areas
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