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Post by solgroupie on Jun 10, 2010 9:43:05 GMT -5
I think Janet Gaynor won the first best actress Academy Award for Sunrise. Amazing movie. sunrise is amazing. i thought janet gaynor was beautiful and george o'brien was a pretty good looking fella. directed by f.w. murnau (who also directed nosferatu) used some pretty impressive imagery for 1927. ^the music used in this scene was incredible
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Post by CBG on Jun 10, 2010 11:26:19 GMT -5
I was curious about Greed, so I looked it up on IMDB: "The original version was 42 reels, and ran for 9 hours at 20 fps. Von Stroheim then shortened it to 24 reels (just over 5 hours - the "Director's Version"). It was then cut again, not once, but twice. The first time by Rex Ingram, who cut the film down to 18 reels, and forbade Stroheim to let anyone cut it again. The final cut was performed by MGM editing department's Joseph Farnham acting on orders from Irving Thalberg, who without having read the book ("McTeague") or the script, cut the film down to 10 reels. This final version was released with a runtime of 2-1/4 hours. No copies of the earlier versions were made, and the entirety of the 32 reels that did not make the final release version were destroyed - along with all of the outtakes - so that the silver could be extracted from the film celluloid. It is in this way, that most of the movie was lost forever. " What a horrible waste. I'm curious as to what could have eaten up 9 hours of film... it would be awesome if they had found the rest of that footage, but it's probably something they would have mentioned in the article, as that would have been a pretty significant find. From what I understand, he filmed the book from cover-to-cover excluding only one storyline about a couple of dogs. Hence 9 hrs.
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Post by CBG on Jun 10, 2010 15:27:13 GMT -5
Just in case you didn't know... Hollywood by Thames TV is available for watching on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch#!v=P2QEx6xMA4A&feature=relatedHere's part one of the first installment of the series. This is one of my all-time favorite documentary series. I also feel like I was born 60 years too late... that's my Hollywood...not this corporate machine I work in now. I taped this back in the late 80s when PBS ran a marathon. The tapes have been stretched for years, so I was very happy to find it on YouTube. Enjoy.
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Post by CBG on Jun 11, 2010 15:37:58 GMT -5
I liked this and wanted to share...
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Post by stevehadcrackers on Jun 12, 2010 15:12:44 GMT -5
^^ I enjoyed that a lot, thanks! I'm not familiar with Jobyna Ralston; she was beautiful.
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Post by Chuck on Jun 16, 2010 5:11:16 GMT -5
Lon Chaney's London After Midnight will probably never be found, and it's probably just as well. It was re-made in the 30s as Mark of the Vampire, and it's essentially a filmed play, and a not very good one at that. www.imdb.com/title/tt0026685/Check out the FAQ section.
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Post by JonathanDP81 on Jun 16, 2010 7:26:24 GMT -5
When I was young I used to watch Chaplin's Modern Times over and over again. The fact that its basically a socialist tract flew right over my head.
This is great news about these films. I've heard that about 90% of all silent films have been lost, mostly due to the fragility and inflammability of the silver nitrate film they were printed on.
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Post by callipygias on Jun 20, 2010 14:00:50 GMT -5
I had no idea they could film color this well as early as 1922.
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Post by Dr. Henry Krasker on Jun 25, 2010 1:57:25 GMT -5
I would love it if A Daughter of the Gods or any of the lost Audrey Munson films are in this cache.
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Post by CBG on Jun 26, 2010 21:38:58 GMT -5
I had no idea they could film color this well as early as 1922. Ya know, it's funny how our minds see 'the past' as black and white. Looking at these tests, the color makes them look like 're-creations'. You know, making it look like it's old, but really it's new? They look like early 21st Century people trying to be early 20th Century people.
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Jul 1, 2010 16:29:15 GMT -5
I had no idea they could film color this well as early as 1922. Ya know, it's funny how our minds see 'the past' as black and white. Looking at these tests, the color makes them look like 're-creations'. You know, making it look like it's old, but really it's new? They look like early 21st Century people trying to be early 20th Century people. It's funny that isn't it. Most silent films seemed to actually use colour quite a lot. It seems it was the advent of sound that saw a shift to black and white. They must of thought people would be so wowed by the sound or something, kind of like the cheap use of 3D now.
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