Showing posts with label silent film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silent film. Show all posts
Friday, March 24, 2023

A Faustian Bargain (or, white robes and turkey soup)

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One of my weirder dreams, which I only remember in detail because I had it right before I  woke up. Faustian Dream  March 24, 2023 We were...
Friday, August 26, 2022

BIZARRE Silent Movie (with Creepy Nurse, Canaries, and DEATH!)

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The only thing I love more than creepy old ads are bizarre old silent films. I will admit I "borrow" a lot from Pics and Portraits...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

ONE HUNDRED YEARS of film logos!

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A lot of people fnd old film logos creepy, or even scary. Not sure why they exude such strangeness. Pathe beats them all in the flapping...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Harold and Bebe: spinning or slow?

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This little snippet from Harold Lloyd's  Young Mr. Jazz (1919) is meant to be comic dancing, a whirling-dervish sort of s...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Maid of Orleans/Cool Cat from Queens

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This is my montage of early Christopher Walken/Joan of Arc gifs, the latter taken from  the 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Harold Lloyd blinks

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

You'd better use your hands

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Yes sir, that's my Bebe

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A two-frame animation I made from gorgeous photos of Harold Lloyd's first leading lady, Bebe Daniels.
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Harold Lloyd on the clock: here's how he did it

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Harold Lloyd: those long ocean voyages

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Harold Lloyd: fists of fury

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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Harold Lloyd: Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

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Somehow the bleakness of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra expresses Harold's grief at being mocked at the big dance better than ...

Harold Lloyd: Ride of the Valkyries

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Another of my incongruous attempts to glom classical music onto scenes from Harold Lloyd. It almost works, in this case. This is the rac...

Harold Lloyd: The Rite of Spring

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Experimental filmmaking at its most wretchedly primitive. I got thinking: what if I rescored some of the great moments from Harold Lloyd...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

An Interesting Story (1905): just the good part

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Monday, November 23, 2015

Kevin Brownlow: it's nice to get an answer sometimes

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  -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Brownlow Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 1:4...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

On the edge

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Saturday, October 17, 2015

More will be revealed

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

The hottest kiss in movie history!

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YES: it's here in gif form, at long last, after  seven years of waiting: my favorite scene from my absolute-favorite Harold Ll...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

It took me years to write (will you take a look)

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Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book     It took me years to write, will you take a look Order The Glass Characte...