Silent Era Challenge (Official, September 2023)

[gunnar]

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10 - A nice documentary about the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole from 1910-1913 with plenty of images from the trip.

29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10 - Nell sells scarves in a department store. One day, she meets Bill, a porter in the Underground and the two fall for each other. Bert is a rougher type who works in the powerhouse and he sets his sights on Nell also and will stoop to dirty tricks to get what he wants. This is a very nice film.

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

Hi sol; thank you for hosting Silent September!

(Screenshot from 'Ramona')

1. Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) / The Fire (1916, Giovanni Pastrone) - 7 or 7.5/10
2. Mr. Fix-It (1918, Allan Dwan) - 6.5/10
3. Os Faroleiros / ‎The Lighthouse Keepers (1922, Maurice Mariaud) - 8/10
4. Exit Smiling (1926, Sam Taylor) - 8.5/10
5. Ramona (1928, Edwin Carewe) - 9/10

[gunnar]

31 - Pinocchio (1911) - 7.5/10 - I liked this early Italian adaptation of the classic tale.

32 - Assunta Spina (1915) - 6.5/10 - A laundress with a violent boyfriend is also pursued by two other men. The film looks nice and the acting is decent for the most part, especially for the era, but the story itself is only so-so.

33 - Marvelous Maciste (1915) - 6.5/10 - An heiress is being pursued by bandits who are employed by her uncle to help him steal the family's fortune after the death of her father. The woman sees the movie Cabiria and gets the idea to write to the strong man Maciste for help. He's dubious at first, but soon comes to realize that she was telling the truth and seeks to aid her, mostly through feats of his get strength to defeat the bad guys. It's ridiculous, but fun.

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10
29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

[jal90]

Spoiler

1. The avenging conscience or 'thou shalt not kill' (1914) - 9/10
2. Hearts of the world (1918) - 9/10
3. A romance of Happy Valley (1919) - 6/10
4. The girl who stayed at home (1919) - 6/10
5. True heart Susie (1919) - 7/10
6. The fall of Babylon (1919) - 8/10
7. The mother and the law (1919) - 9/10
8. Scarlet days (1919) - 6/10
9. The greatest question (1919) - 8/10
10. The idol dancer (1920) - 3/10
11. The love flower (1920) - 7/10
12. Way down East (1920) - 10/10

13. Dream Street (1921) - 4/10

A lot of loose ends, a somewhat effective, mostly cringey metaphor of good and evil, some nasty racism. The idea of recreating a dreamy atmosphere to talk about virtue and temptation (always through the director's eminently conservative filter) is not bad, but I don't even know what is Griffith even trying to do here. Failed and at times quite disgusting film.


14. Stride, Soviet! / Shagay, Sovet! (1926) - 7/10

Dziga Vertov doing what he knows best, and building a contagious piece of propaganda for the Soviet regime that aims to correct all wrongs done by the old regime. Striking and poignant images, fascinating construction of discourse, somewhat repetitive structure consisting of throwing ardent speech after ardent speech. Would make an amazing political rally.


15. 'A Santanotte (1922) - 5/10

First time with Elvira Notari's filmmaking; I think her style has potential, particularly on the depiction of the characters as beings of strong passion and the close mundanity of their environments, but the physical expression of the acting is so overblown and overdone it's very hard to take the characters seriously, and in consequence, the story as a whole.


16. Aitaré from the beach / Aitaré da praia (1925) - 6/10

My first Brazilian silent had some really interesting aspects. For starters, the setting is quite refreshing, and I also appreciate the thematic approaches to elements from Brazilian culture and history, particularly the generational links to its past with slavery; but other than that, the story was a pretty average love triangle. The title cards were very nice looking though.


17. Orphans of the storm (1921) - 9/10

What a surprise, another Griffith with awful politics, this time about the French Revolution. I saw him tackle this before, so it's not much of a shock that he's such a conservative asshat even on this, but still very funny when he talks about "anarchy and bolshevism".

The movie is still great though. Even with his awful takes, it's still Griffith at the peak of his performance as a director, and everything flows amazingly well in one of his strongest blockbuster efforts, from the narrative to the camerawork, and Lillian Gish offers another flawless role.

[jal90]

Spoiler

1. The avenging conscience or 'thou shalt not kill' (1914) - 9/10
2. Hearts of the world (1918) - 9/10
3. A romance of Happy Valley (1919) - 6/10
4. The girl who stayed at home (1919) - 6/10
5. True heart Susie (1919) - 7/10
6. The fall of Babylon (1919) - 8/10
7. The mother and the law (1919) - 9/10
8. Scarlet days (1919) - 6/10
9. The greatest question (1919) - 8/10
10. The idol dancer (1920) - 3/10
11. The love flower (1920) - 7/10
12. Way down East (1920) - 10/10
13. Dream Street (1921) - 4/10
14. Stride, Soviet! / Shagay, Sovet! (1926) - 7/10
15. 'A Santanotte (1922) - 5/10
16. Aitaré from the beach / Aitaré da praia (1925) - 6/10
17. Orphans of the storm (1921) - 9/10

18. Sanz and the secret of his art / Sanz y el secreto de su arte (1918) - 8/10

First check! This one really needs some more visibility, though I don't know how much of its dated stereotyped Spanish comedy translates well. It is nevertheless a fascinating watch; the other contemporary Spanish silents I've seen seem quite primitive to say the least but this one stands out. It is a documentary that intercalates scenes from a play with puppets with behind-the-scenes footage of how these puppets are made and how the artists creates the illusion of movement and gesture. A really impressive and uncanny effort even today and a very interesting point of view for a film from 1918, which also makes some fun commentary about the nature of the medium. Somewhere in the movie there is also a funny and imaginative deviation to fictional drama with one of the puppets, which would probably make this one of the first proper docudramas in film?

The title cards are too long and abundant and there is that element of regional comedy that may be a bit of a hindrance to get into some parts of it, but other than that it was a great watch.

[frwnk]

12.1. Misère au Borinage (1934) - 36 min
12.2. Shakhmatnaya goryachka (1925) - 28 min
12.3. L'étoile de mer (1928) - 21 min
13.1. La coquille et le clergyman (1928) - 40 min
13.2. Le mystère des roches de Kador (1912) - 45 min
14. Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)
15. The Wind (1928)
16.1. Ménilmontant (1926) - 38 min
16.2. Posle smerti (1915) - 46 min
17. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
18.1. Egged On (1926) - 24 min
18.2. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) - 25 min
18.3. The Lad from Old Ireland (1910) - 12 min
18.4. There It Is (1928) - 19 min
19. Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn (1918)
20. The Last Command (1928)
21. Lucky Star (1929)
22. The Big Parade (1925)
23. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

[sol]

Silent Running

1. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
2. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) REVISION
3. True Heart Susie (1919)
4a. Figures de cire (1914) 11min
4b. Easy Street (1917) 27min
4c. The Cure (1917) 20min
4d. Love (1919) 22min
5. So’s Your Old Man (1926) REVISION
6a. The Doll's Revenge (1907) 3min
6b. Behind the Screen (1916) 25min
6c. The Floorwalker (1916) 28min
6d. The Pawnshop (1916) 24min
7. Seven Chances (1925) REVISION
8a. A Dog's Life (1918) 35min
8b. Shoulder Arms (1918) 37min
8c. Daisy Doodad's Dial (1914) 9min

9. Safety Last! (1923) REVISION



Still the best silent movie ever made. I have often talked about how great the film works as tale of a dishonest man who is finally forced to keep his word. I think something also needs to be said of how utterly charming Harold Lloyd remains despite him constantly lying and sneaking around. A lot of it has to do with the purity of his motives (not wanting to break his girlfriend's heart), but much of it also has do with his boyish energy he possesses compared to his jaded department store colleagues and stuffy bosses. I also think it's worth mentioning that the busy sale is loaded with as many gags as the iconic climb.

[jdidaco]

5-7. Gaumont, le cinéma premier - Émile Cohl : Fantasmagorie (A Fantasy, Émile Cohl, 1908) (RV), L'hôtel du silence (Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1908), Le cauchemar de Fantoche (The Puppet's Nightmare, Émile Cohl, 1908), Un drame chez les fantoches (A Love Affair in Toyland, Émile Cohl, 1908), Le cerceau magique (Magic Hoop, Émile Cohl, 1908), Le petit soldat qui devient Dieu (The Little Soldier Who Became a God, Émile Cohl, 1908), Les frères Boutdebois (Acrobatic Toys, Émile Cohl, 1908), Les transfigurations (Émile Cohl, 1909), Soyons donc sportifs (A Sportive Puppet, Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1909), Japon de fantaisie (Japanese Magic, Émile Cohl, 1908), Les joyeux microbes (The Jolly Germs, Émile Cohl, 1909), Moderne école (Modern Education, Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1909), L'éventail animé (Historical Fan, Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1909), Clair de lune espagnol (The Man in the Moon, Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1909), Les locataires d'à côté (Next Door Neighbors, Émile Cohl, 1909), Les couronnes (Laurels, Émile Cohl, 1909), Monsieur Clown ches les Lilliputiens (Émile Cohl, 1909), Porcelaines tendres (Delicate Porcelains, Émile Cohl, 1909), Les chapeaux des belles dames (Émile Cohl, 1909), Les générations comiques (Magic Cartoons, Émile Cohl, 1909), Les chaussures matrimoniales (1909), Les lunettes féeriques (X-Ray Glasses, 1908), Affaires de cœur (Affairs of Hearts, 1909), Le binetoscope (The Comedy-Graph, Émile Cohl, 1910), Rêves enfantins (The Child's Dream, Émile Cohl, 1910), En route (Émile Cohl, 1910), Le songe du garçon de café (The Hasher's Delirium, Émile Cohl, 1910) (RV), Le champion du jeu à la mode (Solving the Puzzle, Émile Cohl, 1910), Mobilier fidèle (The Automatic Moving Company, Émile Cohl & Romeo Bosetti, 1910), Le petit Chantecler (Émile Cohl, 1910), Les douze travaux d'Hercule (Hercules and the Big Stick, Émile Cohl, 1910), Le tout petit Faust (The Beautiful Margaret, Émile Cohl, 1910), Le peintre néo-impressioniste (The Neo-Impressionist Painter, Émile Cohl, 1910), Les quatre petits tailleurs (The Four Little Tailors, Émile Cohl, 1910), L'enfance de l'art (Émile Cohl, 1910), Cadres fleuris (Floral Studies, Émile Cohl, 1910), Les beaux-arts mystérieux (The Mysterious Fine Arts, Émile Cohl, 1910), Le placier est tenace (Émile Cohl, 1910), Histoire de chapeaux (Headdresses of Different Periods, Émile Cohl, 1910), Rien n'est impossible à l'homme (Émile Cohl, 1910), Les chefs-d'œuvre de Bébé (Émile Cohl, 1910), La musicomanie (Émile Cohl, 1910), Le retapeur de cervelles (Brains Repaired, Émile Cohl, 1910) (RV), Le musée des grotesques (Émile Cohl, 1911), Les fantaisies d'Agénor Maltracé (Émile Cohl, 1911), Jobard a tué sa belle-mère (Émile Cohl, 1911), Le cheveu délateur (Émile Cohl, 1911), Les exploits de Feu-Follet (Émile Cohl, 1912), Les métamorphoses comiques (Émile Cohl, 1912), He Ruins His Family's Reputation/Zozor ruine la réputation de sa famille (Émile Cohl, 1913), Bewitched Matches/Les allumettes ensorcelées (Émile Cohl, 1913), He Poses for His Portrait/Le portrait de Zozor (Émile Cohl, 1993), L'avenir dévoilé par les lignes du pied (Future Revealed by the Lines of the Feet, Émile Cohl, 1914), Les exploits de Farfadet (Émile Cohl, 1916), Les aventures des Pieds-Nickelés (Émile Cohl, 1917/18), La maison du Fantoche (The Puppet Looks for Lodgement, Émile Cohl, 1921) (RV) (Rating the whole Gaumont boxset, 9.5/10) (Total: 301 min)
8. Manasse (Jean Mihail, 1925) 7/10

(61 min carried over)

Spoiler

1. Kashtanka (Chestnut, Olga Preobrazhenskaya & Ivan Pravov, 1926) 7.5/10
2. Vtoraya zhena (The Second Wife, Mikhail Doronin, 1927) 9/10
3. Dom na vulkane (The House on the Volcano, Amo Bek-Nazaryan, 1929) 8.5/10
4. Chyornaya kozha (Black Skin, Pavel Kolomoytsev, 1930) 8/10

[gunnar]

34 - Rails / Rotaie (1929) - 8/10 - A couple is on the verge of ending it all when they decide to take one last stab at happiness. They ride the rails and end up at a hotel/casino where they try to change their luck through the roulette wheel. A strange gentlemen offers a different route out of their poverty.

35 - 3 Bad Men (1926) - 8/10 - Three outlaws end up helping a young woman whose wagon was attacked by other outlaws. Since her father was killed, they look after her as sort of adopted uncles and protect her from an unscrupulous sheriff. It's a nice western.

36 - It (1927) - 8.5/10 - Clara Bow is very good as sales girl Betty Lou Spence. She works at a department store and falls for the boss. He becomes enchanted with her as well when he sees her at dinner one night, not knowing that she is one of his employees. There's a fair amount of comedy here along with romance and misunderstandings. The plot isn't necessarily the most extraordinary, but Clara Bow really makes it work. She's got 'it'.

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10
29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

31 - Pinocchio (1911) - 7.5/10
32 - Assunta Spina (1915) - 6.5/10
33 - Marvelous Maciste (1915) - 6.5/10

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

(Poster/screenshot from 'Zare' and 'Jenseits der Straße - Eine Tragödie des Alltags')



6. El leopardo / The Leopard (1926, Alfredo Llorente) - 5.5/10
7. Zare (1927, Amo Bek-Nazaryan) - 9/10
8. Jenseits der Straße - Eine Tragödie des Alltags / Harbour Drift (1929, Leo Mittler) - 9 or 9.5/10
9. Rabmadár / Prisoner Number Seven (1929, Lajos Lázár, Paul Sugar) - 7 or 7.5/10

Spoiler

1. Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) / The Fire (1916, Giovanni Pastrone) - 7 or 7.5/10
2. Mr. Fix-It (1918, Allan Dwan) - 6.5/10
3. Os Faroleiros / ‎The Lighthouse Keepers (1922, Maurice Mariaud) - 8/10
4. Exit Smiling (1926, Sam Taylor) - 8.5/10
5. Ramona (1928, Edwin Carewe) - 9/10

[PUNQ]

Sorry for barging in like this, but I've been working on the silents I found at the end of last month. A overwhelming amount of short films and a few features. Been a bit of a messy viewing routine, which is why I haven't entered the challenge until now, but I think I got control over it now. This is what I've seen so far in September:



1. Kur patiesiba? [Where Is the Truth?] (1913, G. Berlin) [****]
--- Tragic Jewish story from the old Russian Empire about a girl crumbling under the restrictions set for the Jews in the land. Very basic production, which is not surprising considering the year it was made, but it tells it's story well enough.


2. The Lady in the Library (1917, Edgar Jones) [***]
--- Fairly short, simple production and a messy story where the baby takes center stage. Probable better than I give it credit for, but I had a hard time getting in the mood for this.


3. Santa (1918, Luis Peredo) [****]
--- I have seen the first sound version of this story, but thankfully, also the first adaptation of Federico Gamboa's novel exists. Simple film which drowns a little in text as they made the decision to let the intertitles do most of the story telling. Wish they'd had more confidence in the visual aspect, for a Mexican silent from from 1918, it wasn't bad at all.


4. Homer Comes Home (1920, Jerome Storm) [****]
--- Charles Ray was hardly the most charismatic silent stars, but he had his simple man's charm that gave him some success starring in quite a few films. Homer Comes Home (1920) is one of those where his small town boy image fits the plot. But it's not like he's got a big enough personality to lift it above just a role that fits him, for it's a highly normal output. Likable elements, and that's all you should expect from this.


5. The Corsican Brothers (1920, Colin Campbell) [***]
--- Not a bad movie per se, but it's something preventing it from becoming likable. More the way it's composed than the story itself, for it's a proven Alexandre Dumas novel. Colin Campbell didn't hit the right notes with this one.


6. Blind Hearts (1921, Rowland V. Lee) [*****]
--- There's a reason why Hobart Bosworth was one of the great silent actors. His stern face penetrates the silence with authority!


7. La chica de la calle Florida (1922, José A. Ferreyra) [****]
--- The print available isn't the greatest, but the story still manages to break through. Barely. I'd say the film is okay, you just got to focus that little bit extra to get anything out of it.


8. El último centauro - La epopeya del gaucho Juan Moreira (1924, Enrique Queirolo) [***]
--- While it's cool that a Argentinian silent film on their famed outlaw Juan Moreira exists, this is mostly just pantomime where the text does most of the work. You don't get anywhere near the person or much of what goes on.


9. Robes of Sin (1924, Russell Allen) [*****]
--- Not too much star power, but it's got personality. We're in the mid-1920s so they've got the facial expressions down, controlling the emotional aspect that way. What happens is more mildly interesting, but it's simple and stylized, giving good effect to what's going on.


10. Min ven privatdetektiven (1924, A.W. Sandberg) [*****]
--- A cozy Danish silent that ends up becoming a detective story. That was both its charm and drawback. What was going on was likable, but felt long and unfocused. By no means a classic, but still a nice acquaintance.


11. Automobiling Among the Clouds (1904, Billy Bitzer) [***] - 8min
Les dénicheurs d'oiseaux [The Nest Robbers] (1904, Gaston Velle) [***] - 3min
La grève [The Strike] (1904, Ferdinand Zecca) [***] - 5min
Du Caire aux pyramides [From Cairo to the Pyramids] (1905, Pathé Frères) [**] - 4min
Røverens brud [The Robber's Sweetheart] (1907, Viggo Larsen) [***] - 10min
Le thé chez la concierge [The Janitor's Tea Party] (1907, Louis Feuillade) [***] - 2min
The Sorcerer's Scissors (1907, Walter R. Booth) [****] - 3min
Her First Biscuits (1909, D.W. Griffith) [****] - 6min
Léontine en vacances [Léontine on Vacation] (1910, Romeo Bosetti) [****] - 8min
Léontine est incorrigible (1910, Romeo Bosetti) [***] - 6min
Rigadin et son sosie [Whiffle's Double] (1910, Georges Monca) [***] - 7min
Rigadin se décide à travailler (1910, Georges Monca) [***] - 6min
Calino facteur (1910, Romeo Bosetti) [***] - 6min
Calino passager de marque [Calino Travels as a Prince] (1910, Romeo Bosetti) [****] - 6min


12. Le guide (1910, Pathé Frères) [***] - 8min
Les deux orphelines [The Two Orphans] (1910, Albert Capellani) [***] - 15min
Coeur de Bohémienne (1911, Gérard Bourgeois) [****] - 8min
Le flirt dangereux (1911, René Leprince) [***] - 10min
La télémécanique [Telemechanics] (1911, Jean Durand) [****] - 5min
Jobard ne veut pas voir les femmes travailler (1911, Émile Cohl) [***] - 5min
Jobard ne peut pas rire [Jobard Cannot Laugh] (1911, Émile Cohl) [*****] - 8min
Jobard, garçon de recettes [Jobard Works in a Bank] (1911, Émile Cohl) [***] - 5min
Calino polygame (1911, Jean Durand) [****] - 5min
Léontine s'envole [Léontine Gets Carried Away] (1911, Pathé Frères) [*****] - 5min
Léontine en pension (1911, Pathé Frères) [**] - 2min
Zigoto policier trouve une corde (1911, Jean Durand) [***] - 4min


13. Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage [Little Moritz Wants to Marry Rosalie] (1911, Romeo Bosetti) [****] - 5min
Little Moritz enlève Rosalie [Little Moritz Runs Away With Rosalie] (1911, Henri Gambart) [*****] - 8min
Little Moritz est trop petit [Little Morris Is Too Short] (1911, Henri Gambart) [****] - 10min
Little Moritz est un musicien consciencieux (1911, Romeo Bosetti) [***] - 8min
Little Moritz fait une course pressée (1911, Romeo Bosetti) [***] - 5min
Little Moritz épicier [Little Moritz the Grocer] (1912, Henri Gambart) [***] - 5min
Little Moritz, soldat d'Afrique (1912, Alfred Machin) [***] - 7min
Le ménage de Rigadin (1912, Georges Monca) [***] - 10min
Bela (1913, Andrey Gromov) [***] - 22min


14. Manon Lescaut (1912, Albert Capellani) [****] - 36min
Just Maine Folks (1912, Barry O'Neil) [****] - 16min
Gorki [The Great Bank Robbery] (1913, Denmark) [*****] - 28min


15. Onésime est trop timide (1912, Jean Durand) [****] - 6min
Onésime et la grève des mineurs (1912, Jean Durand) [****] - 6min
Les batailles de la vie - Épisode 1: Aux feux de la rampe (1912, Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset) [****] - 12min
Le Pavé de Paris [The Pavements of Paris] (1912, Gaumont) [****] - 13min
God Disposes (1912, Alice Guy) [***] - 14min
Au pays des lits clos [In the Country of Closed Beds] (1913, Maurice Mariaud) [*****] - 31min


16. Hiawatha (1913, Edgar Lewis) [***] - 15min
Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County (1913, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson) [****] - 13min
The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business (1913, D.W. Griffith) [****] - 16min
De Bertha (1914, Louis H. Chrispijn) [****] - 32min
Bobby Bumps and the Detective Story (1916, Earl Hurd) [***] - 5min


17. The Water Dog (1914, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle) [****] - 9min
The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle (1915, Giles Warren) [***] - 16min
Biscot se trompe d'étage [Biscot on the Wrong Floor] (1916, Jacques Feyder) [****] - 15min
Miss Ledyia (1916, Jose Gil) [**] - 22min
Sunshine Dad (1916, Edward Dillon) [***] - 19min


18. Native Life in the Philippines (1914, Dean Worcester) [****] - 36min
Come Back to Erin (1914, Sidney Olcott) [***] - 13min
Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s (1914, Edward Dillon) [***] - 11min
The Surf Girl (1916, Harry Edwards) [****] - 20min


19. The Place Beyond the Winds (1916, Joseph De Grasse) [****] - 39min
La femme française pendant la guerre (1917, Alexandre Devarennes) [***] - 37min
The Circus (1923, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 4min


20. The Lumberjack (1914, O.W. Lamb) [***] - 16min
Sawdust and Salome (1914, Van Dyke Brooke) [***] - 12min
Doloy nemetskoe igo! [Down with the German Yoke] (1914, Pathé Frères) [****] - 10min
Bobby Bumps Outwits the Dogsnatcher (1917, Earl Hurd) [**] - 3min
Masked Mirth (1917, Robin Williamson) [*****] - 23min
Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific (1918, Martin E. Johnson) [**] - 16min


21. Venchal ikh satana [Married by Satan] (1917, Vyacheslav Viskovsky) [***] - 23min
Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies (1917, Larry Semon) [****] - 11min
Pershing's Crusaders (1918, USA) [***] - 36min
Una notte a Calcutta (1918, Mario Caserini) [**] - 10min


22. A Black Sherlock Holmes (1918, R.W. Phillips) [**] - 21min
The Comeback of Barnacle Bill (1918, Ebony Film Company) [***] - 18min
Look Out Below (1919, Hal Roach) [***] - 4min
El Mineral El Teniente (1919, Salvador Giambastiani) [**] - 14min
Day at St Christopher’s College and School (1920, London Missionary Society) [***] - 18min *Won't import to ICM because the IMDB entry has no year.
The Fable of the Farmer and the Mice (1922, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 5min


23. April Fool (1920, Charley Chase) [****] - 20min
Fishing (1920, Bud Fisher) [****] - 6min
O Que Foi O Carnaval de 1920! [What Was the Carnival of 1920!] (1920, Alberto Botelho) [**] - 9min
The Stage Hand (1920, Larry Semon & Norman Taurog) [***] - 14min
Caught in the Rapids (1921, Edgar Jones) [****] - 22min
The Cat and the Canary (1921, Aesop's Fables Studio) [**] - 3min
The Ventriloquist (1921, Bud Fisher) [***] - 6min


24. La visita dell'incrociatore italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 novembre 1921 [The Italian Warship Libia] (1921, Frank Capra) [***] - 32min
Running a Cinema (1921, UK) [***] - 7min
Trapping the Wildcat (1921, Robert N. Bradbury) [***] - 15min
The Crucifix of Destiny (1920, R. Dale Armstrong) [****] - 15min
Flies (1922, Dave Fleischer) [****] - 7min
The Fable of the Hated Rivals (1922, John Foster & Harry Bailey) [***] - 4min


25. A Race for a Bride (1922, Challis Sanderson) [***] - 15min
A Trip to Paramountown (1922, Paramount Pictures) [***] - 10min
Scrooge (1922, George Wynn) [****] - 10min
The Big Flood (1922, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 6min
The Challenge (1922, Dave Fleischer) [****] - 8min
The Dog and the Mosquito (1922, Paul Terry) [***] - 6min
The Enchanted Fiddle (1922, Aesop's Fables Studio) [**] - 6min
The Fable of Fearless Fido (1922, Aesop's Fables Studio) [****] - 6min
The Fox and the Grapes (1922, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 7min
Amateur Night on the Ark (1923, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 6min


26. The Farmer and the Ostrich (1922, Aesop's Fables Studio) [**] - 3min
The Spendthrift (1922, Aesop's Fables Studio) [****] - 7min
Uncensored Movies (1923, Roy Clements) [*****] - 21min
Our Congressman (1924, Rob Wagner) [****] - 24min
A Truthful Liar (1924, Hampton Del Ruth) [****] - 25min


27. The Fable of the Mischievous Cat (1922, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 5min
The Miller and the Donkey (1922, John Foster & Harry Bailey) [***] - 5min
Introduction à la vie rurale (1923, André Villers) [**] - 10min
Barsoum Looking for a Job (1923, Mohamed Bayoumi) [*****] - 15min
Day by Day in Every Way (1923, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 9min
Felix Strikes It Rich (1923, Otto Messmer) [***] - 7min
Felix Tries for Treasure (1923, Otto Messmer) [***] - 7min
The Contest (1923, Dave Fleischer) [****] - 8min
Personal Hygiene for Young Women (1924, Maurice Ricker) [*] - 14min[/b]

[gunnar]

37 - Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) - 7/10 - Lon Chaney stars as a clown who travels around the countryside with his brother putting on shows in villages. At one stop, he finds a young girl crying near a pond and proclaims her as abandoned (as opposed to possibly just lost). He decides to keep her and raise her as his own. A decade or so later when she is a teenager (played by Loretta Young), he becomes sad because he realizes that he has feelings for her as a woman and he knows that he should not try to act on them since he raised her as a surrogate father. Chaney and Young each give good performances and it is a decent film.

38 - The Patsy (1928) - 8/10 - Marion Davies stars as Pat, a young woman whose overbearing mother and selfish sister Grace force her into the background. Her father is on her side, but is often bullied into submission himself. Pat is in love with her sister's boyfriend, Tony. Grace keeps Tony on a string, but also likes to see other men. Pat finally sets out to make a few changes to try and win Tony over and in the process makes her mother and sister think that she has gone crazy. Davies is very good here and is pretty funny with some of her antics after deciding to be more forward.

39 - The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) - 7.5/10 - A father and son spend a month on an island tending a lighthouse. The son was bitten by a rabid dog just before they went to the island and the son becomes ill. There is no way off of the island, though, due to the raging sea and it is a long time before they will be able to leave. This film could definitely benefit from a restoration and a proper release.

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10
29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

31 - Pinocchio (1911) - 7.5/10
32 - Assunta Spina (1915) - 6.5/10
33 - Marvelous Maciste (1915) - 6.5/10
34 - Rails / Rotaie (1929) - 8/10
35 - 3 Bad Men (1926) - 8/10
36 - It (1927) - 8.5/10

[klaus78]

Spoiler

1. Pollyanna (1920) 4/10
2. Maciste alpino (1916) 6/10
3. Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) 6/10
4. Hamlet (1921) 5/10
5. The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922) 5/10
6. Nani ga kanojo o sô saseta ka (1930) 7/10
7. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) 6/10
8. Keisatsukan (1933) 5/10

9. Shorts

a. Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves (1909) 6/10
b. Le locataire diabolique (1909) 6/10
c. The Disintegrated Convict (1907) 5/10
d. Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
e. The Little Match Seller (1902) 6/10
f. Nouvelles luttes extravagantes (1901) 6/10
g. Le cochon danseur (1907) 3/10
h. Les résultats du féminisme (1906) 6/10
i. Le déshabillage impossible (1900) 6/10
j. Les Kiriki, acrobates japonais (1907) 6/10
k. Impatience (1928) 7/10
l. L'étoile de mer (1928) 7/10

10. The Open Road (1926) 7/10
11. Jim Shvante (marili svanets) (1930) 6/10
12. Robin Hood (1922) 5/10
a. Images d'Ostende (1929) 8/10

13. Germinal (1913) 7/10
14. The Marriage Circle (1924) 5/10
15. Erotikon (1929) 7/10

[frbrown]

3. The Mystery of the Kador Cliffs (1912)

Spoiler

1. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
2a. The Adventurer (1917)
2b. Shoulder Arms (1918)
2c. Egged On (1926)
3. The Mystery of the Kador Cliffs (1912)

[peeptoad]

3. The Blackbird (1926)

Spoiler

1.Der Student von Prague (1926)
shorts- 85min
2a. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915) 22min
2b. Impatience (1928) 36min
2c. Les Mystères du Château du Dé (1929) 27min

[gunnar]

40 - Bed and Sofa (1927) - 7.5/10 - A husband and wife in Moscow are joined by an old war buddy of the husband. He was unable to find a place to live after arriving in the city, but is invited to sleep on their sofa while he begins work as a printer. He eventually takes the husband's place in the wife's bed, but things get a bit more complicated after that. It feels a bit ahead of its time with some of the subject matter of the film and it is fairly entertaining.

41 - Mother (1926) - 7/10 - A son protects his mother from the father who wants to hit her. The son is a member of a group of workers who want to strike due to conditions there. The owners and police work to put down the strike and arrest the people involved. The mother is deeply affected by the course of 'justice'.

42 - Arsenal (1929) - 7/10 - A soldier returns home to Kyiv after fighting in WWI just in time for the Russian Revolution. He sees how the people are used and abused by the system and gets that revolutionary fervor. The imagery is excellent, but the story itself doesn't work quite as well.

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10
29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

31 - Pinocchio (1911) - 7.5/10
32 - Assunta Spina (1915) - 6.5/10
33 - Marvelous Maciste (1915) - 6.5/10
34 - Rails / Rotaie (1929) - 8/10
35 - 3 Bad Men (1926) - 8/10
36 - It (1927) - 8.5/10
37 - Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) - 7/10
38 - The Patsy (1928) - 8/10
39 - The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) - 7.5/10

[PUNQ]

28. Flaming Waters (1925, F. Harmon Weight) [*****]
--- A fairly packed programmer starring Malcolm McGregor. Quite a bit of action and John Miljan is always a effective villains. So it does the job of entertaining, even if it's not that type of movie that makes much of an impression beyond that.


29. Cabrita que tira al monte (1926, Fernando Delgado) [**]
--- Wasn't just the available print that was messy. The entire movie felt unwatchable as nearly nothing sunk in.


30. The Dixie Flyer (1926, Charles J. Hunt) [*****]
--- Your basic B-movie during the silent era. A pretty dame and a strong man and a decent dose of action. Entertains in that potboiler way. Got some wonderful stunts during the climax!


31. Bulat-Batyr (1928, Yuri Tarich) [****]
--- Solid production from Yuri Tarich. It just lacks an attraction of sorts to suck you in.


32. Weergevonden [Lost and Found] (1914, Louis H. Chrispijn) [*****]
--- The characters are strong, the narrative a little unfocused. Still better than your average 1914 affair.


33. Addio giovinezza! [Good-bye Youth] (1918, Augusto Genina) [****]
--- Been over 10 years since I saw the 1927 remake, but Augusto Genina's first attempt at the story from 1918 might actually be better. It was a nice easy watch, even if it's not that type of movie that has many big moments.


34. Tanka-traktirshchitsa [Tanka the Innkeeper] (1929, Boris Svetozarov) [****]
--- Not quite sure what I just watched. I mean, it's Communist propaganda, but this was so much more corny than the rest of the propaganda stuff. Tries the kid's approach to sell it's message, along with playful camera effects. I would almost call this a Communist kid's movie.


35. Dragus (1929, Paul Sterian) [***]
--- Documentary on life and farming in Romania made before pictures were a talking media in the area. Fairly standard in it's approach, but it serves more like a historical document than anything beyond that.


36. The Candy Trail (1916, Will Louis) [***] - 7min
The Outposts (1916, Bud Fisher) [***] - 7min
Walrus Hunters (1923, Aesop's Fables Studio) [****] - 6min
The Thoroughbred (1923, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 6min
Jack Frost (1923, Charley Chase) [***] - 12min
The Cat's Revenge (1923, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 5min
The Fable of a Raisin and a Cake of Yeast (1923, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 3min
The Death Ray (1924, Gaston Quiribet) [**] - 8min
If Noah Lived Today (1924, Frank Moser & Paul Terry) [***] - 6min
Masquerade (1924, Dave Fleischer) [****] - 6min
Noah's Outing (1924, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 7min
Sparring Partners (1924, Dave Fleischer) [***] - 7min


37. The Pied Piper (1924, Walter Lantz) [***] - 8min
The Runaway (1924, Dave Fleischer) [******] - 11min
The Storm (1924, Dave Fleischer) [****] - 7min
The Witch's Fiddle (1924, Peter Le Neve Foster) [***] - 7min
Felix Full o' Fight (1925, Otto Messmer) [****] - 7min
Hold That Thought (1925, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 6min
In Dutch (1925, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 6min
Senga: Tsubo [The Pot] (1925, Sanae Yamamoto) [***] - 17min
Koko on the Run (1925, Dave Fleischer) [*****] - 6min
Koko on the Run (1925, Dave Fleischer) [*****] - 5min


38. Kinken chochiku Shiobara Tasuke (1925, Japan) [***] - 10min
Koko the Hot Shot (1925, Dave Fleischer) [******] - 7min
A Roman Scandal (1926, Charles R. Bowers & Bud Fisher) [****] - 6min
Bombs and Bums (1926, Charles R. Bowers & Bud Fisher) [****] - 6min
Dough Boys (1926, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 6min
Fearless Harry (1926, Albert Herman) [****] - 17min
Felix the Cat Braves the Briny (1926, Otto Messmer) [****] - 8min
Felix the Cat Hunts the Hunter (1926, Otto Messmer) [***] - 8min
'Lots' of Water (1926, Charles R. Bowers & Bud Fisher) [*****] - 6min
Set Em Up Again (1926, Charles R. Bowers & Bud Fisher) [****] - 6min


39. Her Ben (1926, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 5min
Koko Gets Egg-Cited (1926, Dave Fleischer) [****] - 8min
Long Live the Bull (1926, Joseph Sunn) [****] - 14min *My 40,000th check on ICM!
Skating Instructors (1926, Bud Fisher) [***] - 5min
The Mail Coach (1926, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 6min
So This is Eden (1927, Joseph Rothman & Tony Sarg) [****] - 33min
Big Reward (1927, Aesop's Fables Studio) [****] - 3min
Ko-Ko Chops Suey (1927, Dave Fleischer) [***] - 6min


40. Giro the Germ (1927, Newhall Films) [****] - 8min
The Plow Boy's Revenge (1927, Aesop's Fables Studio) [***] - 7min
The Travel-Hog (1927, Otto Messmer) [***] - 10min
Uit het rijk der kristallen [From the Realm of the Crystala] (1927, Jan Cornelis Mol) [**] - 13min
Vintik-Shpintik [The Little Screw, a Soviet Fantasy] (1927, Vladislav Tverdovskiy) [****] - 7min
When Snow Flies (1927, John Foster) [****] - 6min
Hootchy Cootchy Parlais Vous (1930, Otto Messmer) [**] - 3min
Goichi jiisan [Old Man Goichi] (1931, Japan) [****] - 11min
Canned Thrills (1928, Sport Pictorials) [**] - 4min
City Slickers (1928, Harry Bailey) [***] - 5min
Coast to Coast (1928, Frank Moser) [***] - 6min


41. Kyodai koguma [The Bear Brothers] (1932, Japan) [****] - 11min
The Sky: A Film Lesson in Nature Study (1928, DeVry School Films) [**] - 18min
Barnyard Artists (1928, Jerry Shields) [***] - 6min
Barnyard Politics (1928, Jerry Shields & Paul Terry) [***] - 5min
Came the Dawn (1928, Arch Heath & Leo McCarey) [****] - 16min
Dr. Dolittle und seine Tiere [Dr. Dolittle: A Trip to Africa] (1928, Lotte Reiniger) [****] - 17min
Draggin' the Dragon (1928, Otto Messmer) [****] - 7min


42. Everybody's Flying (1928, John Foster) [***] - 5min
Gridiron Demons (1928, Frank Moser & Paul Terry) [**] - 5min
The Break of Day (1929, Mannie Davis & Paul Terry) [***] - 5min
Little Game Hunter (1929, Harry Bailey, John Foster & Frank Moser) [***] - 5min
El corazón de una nación (1928, Edmundo Urrutia) [*] - 10min
Hoogstraat (1929, Andor von Barsy) [*] - 11min
Sob o Céu Nordestino [24-min fragment] (1929, Walfredo Rodrigues) [**] - 24min
Stramilano (1929, Corrado D'Errico) [***] - 16min[/b]


43. 3 Game Guys (1929, Paul Terry) [**] - 6min
Jane's Declaration of Independence (1915, Charles Giblyn) [****] - 16min
Cut It Out: A Day in the Life of a Censor (1925, Adrian Brunel) [****] - 19min
La Glu (1929, Henri Fescourt) [***] - 39min

Spoiler

1. Kur patiesiba? [Where Is the Truth?] (1913, G. Berlin) [****]
2. The Lady in the Library (1917, Edgar Jones) [***]
3. Santa (1918, Luis Peredo) [****]
4. Homer Comes Home (1920, Jerome Storm) [****]
5. The Corsican Brothers (1920, Colin Campbell) [***]
6. Blind Hearts (1921, Rowland V. Lee) [*****]
7. La chica de la calle Florida (1922, José A. Ferreyra) [****]
8. El último centauro - La epopeya del gaucho Juan Moreira (1924, Enrique Queirolo) [***]
9. Robes of Sin (1924, Russell Allen) [*****]
10. Min ven privatdetektiven (1924, A.W. Sandberg) [*****]
11. Shorts (14)
12. Shorts (12)
13. Shorts (9)
14. Shorts (3)
15. Shorts (6)
16. Shorts (5)
17. Shorts (5)
18. Shorts (4)
19. Shorts (3)
20. Shorts (6)
21. Shorts (4)
22. Shorts (6)
23. Shorts (7)
24. Shorts (6)
25. Shorts (10)
26. Shorts (5)
27. Shorts (9)
28. Flaming Waters (1925, F. Harmon Weight) [*****]
29. Cabrita que tira al monte (1926, Fernando Delgado) [**]
30. The Dixie Flyer (1926, Charles J. Hunt) [*****]
31. Bulat-Batyr (1928, Yuri Tarich) [****]
32. Weergevonden [Lost and Found] (1914, Louis H. Chrispijn) [*****]
33. Addio giovinezza! [Good-bye Youth] (1918, Augusto Genina) [****]
34. Tanka-traktirshchitsa [Tanka the Innkeeper] (1929, Boris Svetozarov) [****]
35. Dragus (1929, Paul Sterian) [***]
36. Shorts (12)
37. Shorts (10)
38. Shorts (10)
39. Shorts (8)
40. Shorts (11)
41. Shorts (7)
42. Shorts (8)
43. Shorts (4)

[sol]

Silent Running

1. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
2. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) REVISION
3. True Heart Susie (1919)
4a. Figures de cire (1914) 11min
4b. Easy Street (1917) 27min
4c. The Cure (1917) 20min
4d. Love (1919) 22min
5. So’s Your Old Man (1926) REVISION
6a. The Doll's Revenge (1907) 3min
6b. Behind the Screen (1916) 25min
6c. The Floorwalker (1916) 28min
6d. The Pawnshop (1916) 24min
7. Seven Chances (1925) REVISION
8a. A Dog's Life (1918) 35min
8b. Shoulder Arms (1918) 37min
8c. Daisy Doodad's Dial (1914) 9min
9. Safety Last! (1923) REVISION

10a. La Pelouse - Voitures et foules (1899) 1min
10b. Le retour, Place de l'Etoile (1899) 1min
10c. Le retour. Au bois (1899) 1min
10d. Le retour. Aux Champs-Elysées (1899) 1min
10e. Lanciers de la Reine: charge [Espagne] (1896) 1min
10f. Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King (1901) 1min
10g. Egged On (1926) 18min
10h. The '?' Motorist (1906) 3min
10i. The Adventurer (1917) 24min
10j. The 'Teddy Bears' (1907) 14min
10k. Max victime du quinquina (1911) 15min



A collection of short films watched over the past five days:

Comments on the 1 min shorts
La Pelouse is a stationary shot of pre-car "traffic" moving about - people and horses and carts. Not very interesting. Le Retour: Place sees more horses and carts, but from a better angle with less people/spectators in the way. Still not very interesting. Le Retour: Au bois seems to be yet another angle of the same action, but more crowded than the first and in a darker print (maybe later in the day?). Not interesting either. Le retour. Aux is more horses and carts, this time sort of going towards the camera. A more interesting angle but still pretty dull. Lanciers de la Reine almost looks a stampede clip, but it is ultimately just more men and horses too. Terribly Teddy has a horse, but no cart, which makes it refreshingly different from these other 1 minute shorts.

Comments on the rest
I spent most of Egged On wondering why it was on the Annecy list; the stop motion hatched eggs towards the end were certainly a lot of fun though. I also liked his crazy machine for changing eggs from fragile to unbreakable. The '?' Motorist was pretty cool for a 1906 film, though I preferred the shots of the car driving up buildings (still not sure how that was done) than the very obvious fake trips that the motorist takes in space. There are some fun moments towards the end of The Adventurer involving a broken sliding door (see above) and an altered newspaper photo, but I generally preferred the first half of the film, speeding up hills and so on to avoid police capture. The 'Teddy' Bears starts off as a pretty normal Goldilocks adaptation, albeit with a random stop motion sequence halfway in. Once the bears arrive back home though, the story veers off the deep end and becomes dark, violent and quite disturbing for a film of its era. As for the Max Linder short, it is, well, a Max Linder short so of course it's good, though a bit repetitive/predictable as a drunk Max keeps taking the wrong coats, leading to various policemen mistaking him for various dignitries (based on the business cards in the jacket pockets).

[frwnk]

24.1. La perle (1929) - 33 min
24.2. Never Weaken (1921) - 19 min
24.3. One A.M. (1916) - 26 min
24.4. The X-Ray Fiend (1897) - 1 min
24.5. La tentation de Saint-Antoine (1898) - 1 min
25.1. The Rink (1916) - 30 min
25.2. Ich möchte kein Mann sein (1918) - 45 min
25.3. Le squelette joyeux (1898) - 1 min
25.4. Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898) - 1 min
25.5. The Solar Eclipse (1900) - 1 min
25.6. How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) - 1 min
25.7. Un homme de têtes (1898) - 1 min

[gunnar]

43 - Beggars of Life (1928) - 8/10 - A drifter stops at a house in hope of a meal and discovers that the man of the house has been shot and killed by his adopted daughter. The drifter (Richard Arlen) and the young woman (Louise Brooks) set out on the rails with the aim of making it to Canada, but a group of hobos and the police stand in their way. This was pretty good with nice performances from Arlen and Brooks plus Wallace Beery as the lead hobo.

44 - The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929) - 7/10 - A young officer falls for the mistress of a wealthy colonel and she falls for him as well. The colonel plots to get her back by whatever means.

45 - Visages d'enfants (1925) - 8.5/10 - Ten year old Jean is devastated when his mother dies. His father seems to have no skill at talking or dealing with Jean or his younger sister. Eventually, the father comes up with the bright idea to marry a recently widowed woman with a daughter about Jean's age so that she can take care of the house and children while he works and doesn't have to deal with it himself. The father also decides to send the son away on a trip with a family friend without telling him of the marriage that will take place while he is away. Jean's relationship with his new step-sister and step-mother gets off to a rocky start and goes downhill from there. The child actors did a very nice job and I enjoyed the film quite a bit.

46 - The Scarlet Letter (1926) - 7.5/10 - In Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne is punished for having a child out of wedlock. I read the book back in high school and thought it was okay, though I liked Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables quite a bit more. This adaptation seems to leave a number of things out from what I can recall and has a different tone. Still, Lillian Gish is pretty good and I did enjoy the film.

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10
29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

31 - Pinocchio (1911) - 7.5/10
32 - Assunta Spina (1915) - 6.5/10
33 - Marvelous Maciste (1915) - 6.5/10
34 - Rails / Rotaie (1929) - 8/10
35 - 3 Bad Men (1926) - 8/10
36 - It (1927) - 8.5/10
37 - Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) - 7/10
38 - The Patsy (1928) - 8/10
39 - The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) - 7.5/10
40 - Bed and Sofa (1927) - 7.5/10
41 - Mother (1926) - 7/10
42 - Arsenal (1929) - 7/10

[frbrown]

4. Napoleon (1927)

I was dreading this, but it was surprisingly fast-moving (maybe because it was the Coppola version at a "mere" 4 hours)


5. Asphalt (1929)

Spoiler

1. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
2a. The Adventurer (1917)
2b. Shoulder Arms (1918)
2c. Egged On (1926)
3. The Mystery of the Kador Cliffs (1912)
4. Napoleon (1927)
5. Asphalt (1929)

[peeptoad]

4. Rien que les heures /Nothing But Time (1926)
5. Chelovek s kino-apparatom/Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Spoiler

1.Der Student von Prague (1926)
shorts- 85min
2a. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915) 22min
2b. Impatience (1928) 36min
2c. Les Mystères du Château du Dé (1929) 27min
3. The Blackbird (1926)

[magnusbernhardsen]

1. a. La maison ensorcelée (de Chomon, 1907) 8 min.
b. Une excursion incohérente (de Chomon & de Morlhon. 1909) 8 min.
c. Ali Barbouyou et Ali Bouf à l'huile (Méliès, 1907) 2 min.
d. The Airship Destroyer (Booth, 1909) 7 min.
e. Les krémos: Pyramide (Brothers Lumière, 1899) 1 min.
f. La lanterne magique (Méliès, 1903) 5 min.
g. The Lonely Villa (Griffith, 1909) 12 min.
h. New York, Broadway (Promio, 1896) 1 min
i. Panorama de l’arrivée à Aix-les-Bains pris du train (temps de neige) (Brothers Lumière, 1896) 1 min.
j. Panorama de l’arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train (Brothers Lumière, 1896) 1 min.
k. Le portrait spirituel (Méliès, 1903) 2 min.
l. Daisy Doodad’s Dial (Turner, 1914) 9 min.
m. Fanden i nøtten (Cornelius, 1917) 4 min.
n. Paa jagt efter landets skjønneste kvinde: drama i en akt (Lykke-Seest, 1918) 8 min.
o. Rhythmus 21 (Richter, 1921) 3 min.
p. Cinq minutes de cinéma pur (Chomette, 1926) 5 min.
q. Vormittagsspuk (Richter, 1928) 8 min.
2. La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ (Zecca & Nonguet, 1903)
3. Historien om en gut (Lykke-Seest, 1919)

[klaus78]

Spoiler

1. Pollyanna (1920) 4/10
2. Maciste alpino (1916) 6/10
3. Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) 6/10
4. Hamlet (1921) 5/10
5. The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922) 5/10
6. Nani ga kanojo o sô saseta ka (1930) 7/10
7. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) 6/10
8. Keisatsukan (1933) 5/10

9. Shorts

a. Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves (1909) 6/10
b. Le locataire diabolique (1909) 6/10
c. The Disintegrated Convict (1907) 5/10
d. Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
e. The Little Match Seller (1902) 6/10
f. Nouvelles luttes extravagantes (1901) 6/10
g. Le cochon danseur (1907) 3/10
h. Les résultats du féminisme (1906) 6/10
i. Le déshabillage impossible (1900) 6/10
j. Les Kiriki, acrobates japonais (1907) 6/10
k. Impatience (1928) 7/10
l. L'étoile de mer (1928) 7/10

10. The Open Road (1926) 7/10
a. Images d'Ostende (1929) 8/10
11. Jim Shvante (marili svanets) (1930) 6/10
12. Robin Hood (1922) 5/10
13. Germinal (1913) 7/10
14. The Marriage Circle (1924) 5/10
15. Erotikon (1929) 7/10

16. Seishun no yume ima izuko (1932) 6/10
17. Oblomok imperii (1929) 7/10
18. Street Angel (1928) 5/10
b. Pass the Gravy (1928) 4/10

[frbrown]

6a. L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc (1901)
6b. Invisible Ink (1921)
6c. När Kapten Grogg skulle porträtteras (1917)
6d. Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa (1913)
6e. El hotel eléctrico (1908)
6f. Pauvre Pierrot (1892)
6g. The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
6h. Autour d'une cabine (1894)
6i. Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
6j. Le manoir du diable (1896)
6k. Les cartes vivantes (1905)
6l. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
6m. Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)
6n. The Flying Train (1902)
6o. The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)
6p. Le tunnel sous La Manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais (1907)
6q. The Country Doctor (1909)

Spoiler

1. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
2a. The Adventurer (1917)
2b. Shoulder Arms (1918)
2c. Egged On (1926)
3. The Mystery of the Kador Cliffs (1912)
4. Napoleon (1927)
5. Asphalt (1929)
6a. L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc (1901)
6b. Invisible Ink (1921)
6c. När Kapten Grogg skulle porträtteras (1917)
6d. Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa (1913)
6e. El hotel eléctrico (1908)
6f. Pauvre Pierrot (1892)
6g. The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
6h. Autour d'une cabine (1894)
6i. Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
6j. Le manoir du diable (1896)
6k. Les cartes vivantes (1905)
6l. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
6m. Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)
6n. The Flying Train (1902)
6o. The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)
6p. Le tunnel sous La Manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais (1907)
6q. The Country Doctor (1909)

[gunnar]

47 - La Roue / The Wheel (1923) - 7.5/10 - Sisif is a railroad worker who rescues a small girl after a train accident and raises her as his daughter when he discovers that she is now an orphan. He also has a son of a similar age and the two children grow up to be best friends. Sisif never tells the girl her true parentage and this causes a number of problems when she is an adult. It's a pretty good movie, though definitely on the long side. I don't think that I will try seek out the 7 hour version.

48 - L'Argent (1928) - 7/10 - A crooked banker named Saccard manipulates stocks and the value of his bank in order to make money. He enlists a patsy with a good reputation and tries to seduce the patsy's wife. The film updates a novel by Émile Zola and isn't bad.

49 - Spione / Spies (1928) - 8.5/10 - Fritz Lang's followup to Metropolis doesn't approach that movie's level of entertainment, but it is still fun, looks great, and has nice acting performances. The film revolves around a romance between a Russian agent for an international spy ring and a government agent. There is a fair amount of intrigue and action with the last half hour of the film being my favorite part.

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10
29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

31 - Pinocchio (1911) - 7.5/10
32 - Assunta Spina (1915) - 6.5/10
33 - Marvelous Maciste (1915) - 6.5/10
34 - Rails / Rotaie (1929) - 8/10
35 - 3 Bad Men (1926) - 8/10
36 - It (1927) - 8.5/10
37 - Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) - 7/10
38 - The Patsy (1928) - 8/10
39 - The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) - 7.5/10
40 - Bed and Sofa (1927) - 7.5/10
41 - Mother (1926) - 7/10
42 - Arsenal (1929) - 7/10
43 - Beggars of Life (1928) - 8/10
44 - The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929) - 7/10
45 - Visages d'enfants (1925) - 8.5/10
46 - The Scarlet Letter (1926) - 7.5/10

[OldAle1]

1. The Open Road (Claude Friese-Greene, 1926)



Early color (the process named after it's inventor, the director's father) travelogue covering an automobile journey throughout Great Britain, covering spots like Blackpool, Cardiff (Wales), and several spots in Scotland, before heading to London. This was originally shown in 26 short parts in cinemas, I suppose along with other shorts, newsreels, etc, in front of features, and in 2005 edited into a short (65 m) feature by the BFI. While the color is reminiscent of 2-strip Technicolor or the later Cinecolor - it's limited in it's palette and heavily tilted to a salmon-pink and pale blue - it still does give these old scenes and people a bit more immediacy than b&w, and I liked the piano/violin score by Neil Brand and Günther Buchwald quite a bit. Though I've never been to the UK and likely never will have the chance, this had an odd sort of emotional effect on me in the end, like it was homey and personally relevant in some way - can't say why. In any case I ended up enjoying it quite a bit and it certainly seems to be a significant bit of British film history that anybody interested in that area should check out.

2. Georges Méliès program, 1902-4 82 minutes total



1902
a) Le voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants / Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants 4 minutes
b) The Coronation of Edward VII 4 minutes

1903
c) La guirlande merveilleuse / The Marvellous Wreath 4 minutes
d) Un malheur n'arrive jamais seul / Misfortune Never Comes Alone 3 minutes
e) Le cake-walk infernal / The Infernal Cake-Walk 5 minutes
f) La boîte à malice / The Enchanted Box 1 minute
g) Le puits fantastique / The Enchanted Well 4 minutes
h) L'auberge du bon repos / The Inn Where No Man Rests 5 minutes
i) La statue animée / The Drawing Lesson 3 minutes
j) Le sorcier / The Witches' Revenge 4 minutes
k) L'oracle de Delphes / The Oracle at Delphi 2 minutes
l) Le portrait spirituel / The Spiritualist Photographer 2 minutes
m) Le monstre / The Monster 3 minutes
n) Le chaudron infernal / The Infernal Cauldron 2 minutes
o) Le tonnerre de Jupiter / Jupiter's Thunderbolts 4 minutes
p) Le parapluie fantastique / Ten Ladies in an Umbrella 4 minutes
q) Tom Tight et Dum-Dum / Jack Jaggs and Dum Dum 3 minutes
r) Bob Kick, l'enfant terrible / Bob Kick the Mischievous Kid 3 minutes
s) L'enchanteur Alcofribas / Alcofribas, the Master Magician 4 minutes
t) Jacques et Jim / Jack and Jim 3 minutes
u) Le rêve du maître de ballet / The Ballet Master's Dream 3 minutes
v) Faust aux enfers / Faust in Hell 6 minutes

1904
w) Le bourreau turc / The Turkish Executioner 3 minutes
x) Au clair de la lune ou Pierrot malheureux / A Moonlight Serenade; or, The Miser Punished 3 minutes

I have the 5-disc Flicker Alley DVD box set, plus the single disc "Encore", and I've been slowly, slowly going through it for years; I think I may have done a series of them for a previous silent challenge or two. I don't know why I don't just zip through the whole thing, I really enjoy Méliès, he's certainly the earlier director that I would call a master (so far) and I have a few of his films on my all-time favorites list; his invention and exploration of fantasy on tiny budgets with just cardboard backdrops and the most primitive technology is still a marvel. None of this group is going in my top list but several are quite good, notably Le cake-walk infernal, Le chaudron infernal, Le tonnerre de Jupiter and Au clair de la lune ou Pierrot malheureux; what these all have in common is that they are all displays of the fantastique and in our time of superheroic indulgence, Harry Potter, etc, it's no wonder that it's these early fantasies with devils and magicians, fire and smoke and monsters, are the ones that stand out the most. They also seem to be the ones where the director is most engaged and his actors including himself are having the most fun. The least-interesting tend to be his documentary-type films, represented in this group thankfully only by the The Coronation of Edward VII, easily the least-interesting work here both cinematically and narratively.

Hopefully I'll still get around to another group of these this month, if not I guess there's always next year.

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

(Screenshots from 'The Wrath of the Gods' and 'Erdgeist')



10. The Wrath of the Gods (1914, Reginald Barker) - 8.5 or 9/10
11. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917, Maurice Tourneur) - 8/10
12. Il padrone delle ferriere / The Railway Owner (1919, Eugenio Perego) - 6 or 6.5/10
13. The Toll of the Sea (1922, Chester M. Franklin) - 8 or 8.5/10
14. Erdgeist / Earth Spirit (1923, Leopold Jessner) - 9.5/10
15. Kid Boots (1926, Frank Tuttle) - 8/10

Spoiler

1. Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) / The Fire (1916, Giovanni Pastrone) - 7 or 7.5/10
2. Mr. Fix-It (1918, Allan Dwan) - 6.5/10
3. Os Faroleiros / ‎The Lighthouse Keepers (1922, Maurice Mariaud) - 8/10
4. Exit Smiling (1926, Sam Taylor) - 8.5/10
5. Ramona (1928, Edwin Carewe) - 9/10
6. El leopardo / The Leopard (1926, Alfredo Llorente) - 5.5/10
7. Zare (1927, Amo Bek-Nazaryan) - 9/10
8. Jenseits der Straße - Eine Tragödie des Alltags / Harbour Drift (1929, Leo Mittler) - 9 or 9.5/10
9. Rabmadár / Prisoner Number Seven (1929, Lajos Lázár, Paul Sugar) - 7 or 7.5/10

[gunnar]

50 - L'Inhumaine / The Inhuman Woman (1924) - 6/10 - A popular singer has regular gatherings with her many admirers. One scientist shows up late, is mocked, and leaves threatening to kill himself. The set designs and editing are interesting. The acting and story left me cold for the most part.

51 - Orphans of the Storm (1921) - 7/10 - Henriette and Louise (Lillian and Dorothy Gish) were raised as sisters, though Louise had been found in the snow as a baby. Their parents are dead from the plague and Louise goes blind so the two head to Paris to try and find a cure, only to get caught up with uncaring aristocrats, beggars, and the French Revolution. The acting was too melodramatic at times, but the film was okay.

52 - The New Babylon (1929) - 6/10 - The film takes place during the time of the Paris Commune in 1871 and features a woman and a soldier who love each other, but are on opposite sides. The film has a very nice score and is visually creative at times, but I didn't really care for the story or how it was told.

This gets me to platinum on the ICM 1920s list. I have four other films lined up to watch for this challenge and probably won't go much beyond that, so PUNQ has plenty of time to pass me and leave my score in the dust if he is so inclined.

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10
29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

31 - Pinocchio (1911) - 7.5/10
32 - Assunta Spina (1915) - 6.5/10
33 - Marvelous Maciste (1915) - 6.5/10
34 - Rails / Rotaie (1929) - 8/10
35 - 3 Bad Men (1926) - 8/10
36 - It (1927) - 8.5/10
37 - Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) - 7/10
38 - The Patsy (1928) - 8/10
39 - The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) - 7.5/10
40 - Bed and Sofa (1927) - 7.5/10
41 - Mother (1926) - 7/10
42 - Arsenal (1929) - 7/10
43 - Beggars of Life (1928) - 8/10
44 - The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929) - 7/10
45 - Visages d'enfants (1925) - 8.5/10
46 - The Scarlet Letter (1926) - 7.5/10
47 - La Roue / The Wheel (1923) - 7.5/10
48 - L'Argent (1928) - 7/10
49 - Spione / Spies (1928) - 8.5/10

[jdidaco]

(Screenshots from 'Les dents de fer' & 'Le feu à la prairie'),



9-10. Gaumont, le cinéma premier - Léonce Perret : (61 min), Molière (Léonce Perret, 1910), Le chrysanthème rouge (Léonce Perret, 1911), L'automne du cœur (Léonce Perret, 1911) (RV), L'express matrimonial (The Matrimonial Express, Léonce Perret, 1912), Sur la voie (Léonce Perret, 1913), Les dents de fer (Léonce Perret, 1913), Léonce cinématographiste (Léonce Perret, 1913), Léonce aime les morilles (Léonce Perret, 1913), Oscar et Kiki la midinette (The Wooing of the Sales Lady, Léonce Perret, 1913), Oscar au bain (Léonce Perret, 1913) (Rating the whole Gaumont boxset, 8/10) (137 min) (Total: 198 min)
11-14. Gaumont, le cinéma premier - Jean Durand : (38 min), Le baptême de Calino (Jean Durand, 1910), Pendaison à Jefferson City (Hanging at Jefferson City, Jean Durand, 1910), Le Rembrandt de la rue Lepic (Jean Durand, 1910), Eugénie redresse-toi (Jean Durand, 1911), Calino veut être cow-boy (Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy, Jean Durand, 1911), Zigoto et l'affaire du collier (Jean Durand, 1911), Zigoto plombier d'occasion (Jean Durand, 1911), La nuit de noces de Calino (Jean Durand, 1911), Non! Tu ne sortiras pas sans moi (Jean Durand, 1911), Le feu à la prairie (Jean Durand, 1911), Cent dollars mort ou vif (Jean Durand, 1911), Le révolver matrimonial (Jean Durand, 1912), Calino courtier en paratonnerres (Jean Durand, 1912), Calino dompteur par amour (Jean Durand, 1912), Le railway de la mort (The Railway of Death, Jean Durand, 1912), Zigoto et la locomotive (Zigoto Drives a Locomotive, Jean Durand, 1912), Cœur-Ardent (Jean Durand, 1912), Sous la griffe (Under the Claw: A Story of Transvaal, Jean Durand, 1912), Zigoto promène ses amis (Jean Durand, 1912), Oxford contre Martigues (Jean Durand, 1912), Onésime a un duel à l'américaine (Jean Durand, 1912), Onésime et le nourrisson de la nourrice indigne (Jean Durand, 1912), Zigoto en pleine lune de miel (Jean Durand, 1912), Zigoto et la blanchisseuse (Jean Durand, 1912), Onésime aux enfers (Simple Simon in Hell, Jean Durand, 1912), Calino chef de gare (Calino, Station Master, Jean Durand, 1912), Onésime horloger (Onesime, Clockmaker, Jean Durand. 1912) (RV), Onésime contre Onésime (Jean Durand, 1912), Onésime et l'étudiante (Onésime and the Student, Jean Durand, 1912), Onésime employé des Postes (Onésime Postal Worker, Jean Durand, 1912), Onésime se marie, Calino aussi (Jean Durand, 1913), Onésime et l'héritage de Calino (Batty Billy and His Pal's Legacy, Jean Durand, 1913), Onésime aime les bêtes (Jean Durand, 1913), La disparition d'Onésime (Jean Durand, 1913), Course de taureaux provençale (Jean Durand, 1913), Onésime dresseur d'hommes et de chevaux (Jean Durand, 1913), Onésime et le cœur du tzigane (Onesime and the Heart of the Gypsy, Jean Durand, 1913), Onésime, tu l'épouseras quand même! (Batty Bill Almost Married, Jean Durand, 1914), Onésime débute au théâtre (Batty Bill's Pertinacity, Jean Durand, 1914), Onésime et le drame de famille (One on Batty Bill, Jean Durand, 1914) (Rating the whole Gaumont boxset, 8/10) (328 min) (Total: 366)



(46 min carried over)

Spoiler

1. Kashtanka (Chestnut, Olga Preobrazhenskaya & Ivan Pravov, 1926) 7.5/10
2. Vtoraya zhena (The Second Wife, Mikhail Doronin, 1927) 9/10
3. Dom na vulkane (The House on the Volcano, Amo Bek-Nazaryan, 1929) 8.5/10
4. Chyornaya kozha (Black Skin, Pavel Kolomoytsev, 1930) 8/10
5-7. Gaumont, le cinéma premier - Émile Cohl : Fantasmagorie (A Fantasy, Émile Cohl, 1908) (RV), L'hôtel du silence (Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1908), Le cauchemar de Fantoche (The Puppet's Nightmare, Émile Cohl, 1908), Un drame chez les fantoches (A Love Affair in Toyland, Émile Cohl, 1908), Le cerceau magique (Magic Hoop, Émile Cohl, 1908), Le petit soldat qui devient Dieu (The Little Soldier Who Became a God, Émile Cohl, 1908), Les frères Boutdebois (Acrobatic Toys, Émile Cohl, 1908), Les transfigurations (Émile Cohl, 1909), Soyons donc sportifs (A Sportive Puppet, Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1909), Japon de fantaisie (Japanese Magic, Émile Cohl, 1908), Les joyeux microbes (The Jolly Germs, Émile Cohl, 1909), Moderne école (Modern Education, Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1909), L'éventail animé (Historical Fan, Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1909), Clair de lune espagnol (The Man in the Moon, Émile Cohl & Étienne Arnaud, 1909), Les locataires d'à côté (Next Door Neighbors, Émile Cohl, 1909), Les couronnes (Laurels, Émile Cohl, 1909), Monsieur Clown ches les Lilliputiens (Émile Cohl, 1909), Porcelaines tendres (Delicate Porcelains, Émile Cohl, 1909), Les chapeaux des belles dames (Émile Cohl, 1909), Les générations comiques (Magic Cartoons, Émile Cohl, 1909), Les chaussures matrimoniales (1909), Les lunettes féeriques (X-Ray Glasses, 1908), Affaires de cœur (Affairs of Hearts, 1909), Le binetoscope (The Comedy-Graph, Émile Cohl, 1910), Rêves enfantins (The Child's Dream, Émile Cohl, 1910), En route (Émile Cohl, 1910), Le songe du garçon de café (The Hasher's Delirium, Émile Cohl, 1910) (RV), Le champion du jeu à la mode (Solving the Puzzle, Émile Cohl, 1910), Mobilier fidèle (The Automatic Moving Company, Émile Cohl & Romeo Bosetti, 1910), Le petit Chantecler (Émile Cohl, 1910), Les douze travaux d'Hercule (Hercules and the Big Stick, Émile Cohl, 1910), Le tout petit Faust (The Beautiful Margaret, Émile Cohl, 1910), Le peintre néo-impressioniste (The Neo-Impressionist Painter, Émile Cohl, 1910), Les quatre petits tailleurs (The Four Little Tailors, Émile Cohl, 1910), L'enfance de l'art (Émile Cohl, 1910), Cadres fleuris (Floral Studies, Émile Cohl, 1910), Les beaux-arts mystérieux (The Mysterious Fine Arts, Émile Cohl, 1910), Le placier est tenace (Émile Cohl, 1910), Histoire de chapeaux (Headdresses of Different Periods, Émile Cohl, 1910), Rien n'est impossible à l'homme (Émile Cohl, 1910), Les chefs-d'œuvre de Bébé (Émile Cohl, 1910), La musicomanie (Émile Cohl, 1910), Le retapeur de cervelles (Brains Repaired, Émile Cohl, 1910) (RV), Le musée des grotesques (Émile Cohl, 1911), Les fantaisies d'Agénor Maltracé (Émile Cohl, 1911), Jobard a tué sa belle-mère (Émile Cohl, 1911), Le cheveu délateur (Émile Cohl, 1911), Les exploits de Feu-Follet (Émile Cohl, 1912), Les métamorphoses comiques (Émile Cohl, 1912), He Ruins His Family's Reputation/Zozor ruine la réputation de sa famille (Émile Cohl, 1913), Bewitched Matches/Les allumettes ensorcelées (Émile Cohl, 1913), He Poses for His Portrait/Le portrait de Zozor (Émile Cohl, 1993), L'avenir dévoilé par les lignes du pied (Future Revealed by the Lines of the Feet, Émile Cohl, 1914), Les exploits de Farfadet (Émile Cohl, 1916), Les aventures des Pieds-Nickelés (Émile Cohl, 1917/18), La maison du Fantoche (The Puppet Looks for Lodgement, Émile Cohl, 1921) (RV) (Rating the whole Gaumont boxset, 9.5/10) (Total: 301 min)
8. Manasse (Jean Mihail, 1925) 7/10

[frbrown]

7a. La fée Carabosse ou le poignard fatal (1906)
7b. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) [is this eligible?]
7c. Illusions funambulesques (1903)
7d. Le locataire diabolique (1909)
7e. La lune à un mètre (1898)
7f. Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
7g. Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898)
7h. Those Awful Hats (1909)
7i. Les quatre cents farces du diable (1906)
7j. The 'Teddy' Bears (1907)
7k. A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
7l. Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves (1909)


Which earns me Bronze on iCM's Pre-1910s list

Spoiler

1. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
2a. The Adventurer (1917)
2b. Shoulder Arms (1918)
2c. Egged On (1926)
3. The Mystery of the Kador Cliffs (1912)
4. Napoleon (1927)
5. Asphalt (1929)
6a. L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc (1901)
6b. Invisible Ink (1921)
6c. När Kapten Grogg skulle porträtteras (1917)
6d. Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa (1913)
6e. El hotel eléctrico (1908)
6f. Pauvre Pierrot (1892)
6g. The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
6h. Autour d'une cabine (1894)
6i. Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
6j. Le manoir du diable (1896)
6k. Les cartes vivantes (1905)
6l. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
6m. Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)
6n. The Flying Train (1902)
6o. The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)
6p. Le tunnel sous La Manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais (1907)
6q. The Country Doctor (1909)
7a. La fée Carabosse ou le poignard fatal (1906)
7b. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
7c. Illusions funambulesques (1903)
7d. Le locataire diabolique (1909)
7e. La lune à un mètre (1898)
7f. Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
7g. Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898)
7h. Those Awful Hats (1909)
7i. Les quatre cents farces du diable (1906)
7j. The 'Teddy' Bears (1907)
7k. A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
7l. Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves (1909)

[blocho]

1. Seven Chances (1925)
This is a high-level Keaton picture with an incredible collection of epic gags and stunts.

2. Dr. Jack (1922)
This is something like Patch Adams avant la lettre? I confess I haven’t actually seen Patch Adams, but the idea that laughter is the best medicine is central there as it is here, right? The titular doctor offers plenty of laughs and hijinks, including some hijinks that are ridiculous even by Harold Lloyd standards. A trained monkey and an escaped lunatic both randomly wander into the plot at different points. Still, it’s pretty fun.

[peeptoad]

6. Mater dolorosa /The Torture of Silence (1917)

Spoiler

1.Der Student von Prague (1926)
shorts- 85min
2a. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915) 22min
2b. Impatience (1928) 36min
2c. Les Mystères du Château du Dé (1929) 27min
3. The Blackbird (1926)
4. Rien que les heures /Nothing But Time (1926)
5. Chelovek s kino-apparatom/Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

[ororama]

1. Filibus (1915) * 70 min.
Sort of Fantômas light, with a pretty, frequently cross-dressing sky pirate stealing from the rich to frame a detective rival as the thief and romance his sister. I liked her delightfully cheap airship.

*First time viewing

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

(Screenshots from 'Pour don Carlos' and 'El sexto sentido' - both in a way deal with facades, of countryside and urban setting respectively)



16. Pour don Carlos / For Don Carlos (1921, Musidora, Jacques Lasseyne) - 8.5 or 9/10
17. Open All Night (1924, Paul Bern) - 5.5/10
18. Ungarische Rhapsodie / Hungarian Rhapsody (1928, Hanns Schwarz) - 8/10
19. El sexto sentido / The Sixth Sense (1929, Eusebio Fernández Ardavín, Nemesio M. Sobrevila) - 8.5/10
20. Lätif / Latif (1930, Mikayil Mikayilov) - 7.5 or 8/10

Spoiler

1. Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) / The Fire (1916, Giovanni Pastrone) - 7 or 7.5/10
2. Mr. Fix-It (1918, Allan Dwan) - 6.5/10
3. Os Faroleiros / ‎The Lighthouse Keepers (1922, Maurice Mariaud) - 8/10
4. Exit Smiling (1926, Sam Taylor) - 8.5/10
5. Ramona (1928, Edwin Carewe) - 9/10
6. El leopardo / The Leopard (1926, Alfredo Llorente) - 5.5/10
7. Zare (1927, Amo Bek-Nazaryan) - 9/10
8. Jenseits der Straße - Eine Tragödie des Alltags / Harbour Drift (1929, Leo Mittler) - 9 or 9.5/10
9. Rabmadár / Prisoner Number Seven (1929, Lajos Lázár, Paul Sugar) - 7 or 7.5/10
10. The Wrath of the Gods (1914, Reginald Barker) - 8.5 or 9/10
11. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917, Maurice Tourneur) - 8/10
12. Il padrone delle ferriere / The Railway Owner (1919, Eugenio Perego) - 6 or 6.5/10
13. The Toll of the Sea (1922, Chester M. Franklin) - 8 or 8.5/10
14. Erdgeist / Earth Spirit (1923, Leopold Jessner) - 9.5/10
15. Kid Boots (1926, Frank Tuttle) - 8/10

[DudeLanez]

1. Downhill (1927, Alfred Hitchcock) 6/10
2. The Ring (1927, Alfred Hitchcock) 5/10

[frbrown]

8. Turksib (1929)

Which should get me Bronze on Paul Rotha's list, though I'm still waiting for it

Spoiler

1. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
2a. The Adventurer (1917)
2b. Shoulder Arms (1918)
2c. Egged On (1926)
3. The Mystery of the Kador Cliffs (1912)
4. Napoleon (1927)
5. Asphalt (1929)
6a. L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc (1901)
6b. Invisible Ink (1921)
6c. När Kapten Grogg skulle porträtteras (1917)
6d. Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa (1913)
6e. El hotel eléctrico (1908)
6f. Pauvre Pierrot (1892)
6g. The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
6h. Autour d'une cabine (1894)
6i. Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
6j. Le manoir du diable (1896)
6k. Les cartes vivantes (1905)
6l. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
6m. Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)
6n. The Flying Train (1902)
6o. The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)
6p. Le tunnel sous La Manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais (1907)
6q. The Country Doctor (1909)
7a. La fée Carabosse ou le poignard fatal (1906)
7b. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
7c. Illusions funambulesques (1903)
7d. Le locataire diabolique (1909)
7e. La lune à un mètre (1898)
7f. Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
7g. Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898)
7h. Those Awful Hats (1909)
7i. Les quatre cents farces du diable (1906)
7j. The 'Teddy' Bears (1907)
7k. A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
7l. Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves (1909)
8. Turksib (1929)

[sol]

Silent Running

1. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
2. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) REVISION
3. True Heart Susie (1919)
4a. Figures de cire (1914) 11min
4b. Easy Street (1917) 27min
4c. The Cure (1917) 20min
4d. Love (1919) 22min
5. So’s Your Old Man (1926) REVISION
6a. The Doll's Revenge (1907) 3min
6b. Behind the Screen (1916) 25min
6c. The Floorwalker (1916) 28min
6d. The Pawnshop (1916) 24min
7. Seven Chances (1925) REVISION
8a. A Dog's Life (1918) 35min
8b. Shoulder Arms (1918) 37min
8c. Daisy Doodad's Dial (1914) 9min
9. Safety Last! (1923) REVISION
10a. La Pelouse - Voitures et foules (1899) 1min
10b. Le retour, Place de l'Etoile (1899) 1min
10c. Le retour. Au bois (1899) 1min
10d. Le retour. Aux Champs-Elysées (1899) 1min
10e. Lanciers de la Reine: charge [Espagne] (1896) 1min
10f. Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King (1901) 1min
10g. Egged On (1926) 18min
10h. The '?' Motorist (1906) 3min
10i. The Adventurer (1917) 24min
10j. The 'Teddy Bears' (1907) 14min
10k. Max victime du quinquina (1911) 15min

11a. The Champion (1915) 31min
11b. Der getäuschte Pierrot (1917) 6min
11c. Falling Leaves (1912) 12min
11d. New York, Whitehall Street (1896) 1min
11e. Nice, panorama du casino pris d'un bateau (1897) 1min
11f. Pan-American Exposition by Night (1901) 1min
11g. Panorama du Grand Canal pris d'un bateau (1896) 1min
11h. The Vagabond (1916) 27min



A collection of short films watched over the past few days:

The Champion feels like a bit of a warm-up for City Lights with a boxing match climax involving the Tramp fighting in the ring and getting up to such chaos as accidentally punching the referee while darting back and forth. The big match takes up less than a third of the runtime though, and while there is fun some to be had in the Tramp repeatedly knocking out a moustached guy who tries to bribe him and so forth, the film drags a bit before the climax.

Der getäuschte Pierrot was visually very striking, entirely played out as silhouettes viewed from a distance. Some stunning colour tinting too and the complete answer of title cards made the whole thing dreamy, though on the same account it added some narrative confusion. I think it is meant to be a tale of a teenager sneaking out on her father to meet her lover, but it could just as easily be an unhappily married woman sneaking out on her husband.

Falling Leaves - pictured above - has an adorable young girl collecting leaves under the belief that it will stop her older sister from dying of consumption. The little girl is sadly not the main focus of the film though, which rather spends most of its time on cure discussions and the older sister lying in bed ill. The film also has the most bizarre original title cards ever. Presented in all-caps, they are really hard to read.

New York, Whitehall Street is just that - a single static shot of the street with passers-by walking through it. As per the title, Nice - pris d'un bateau is shot from a boat, with some gentle rocking that makes it refreshingly different from most of the other 1min Lumière shorts out there. Pan-American Exposition by Night is two one minute gentle pans spliced together showing the same location in the daytime and then at night. Grand Canal - pris d'un bateau is the same deal as the Nice short, but longer and shot a year earlier.

The Vagabond has the Tramp falling in love with a gypsy girl before circumstances cause her to become famous. The whole thing feels a bit random and disjointed, jumping from one event to the next but there are some funny moments along the way as the Tramp inadvertently collects donations on behalf of live performers and gets into fights. Not one of Chaplin's strongest short though.

And there has been quite a flurry of activity since I last updated the OP, so I'll give it another update in a few minutes.

[gunnar]

53 - Maciste in Hell (1925) - 6.5/10 - The strongman, Maciste, ends up in hell where he battles the devils there. Some of the special effects were interesting. It's too bad that so much of the film is lost.

54 - Foolish Wives (1922) - 6.5/10 - A con artist poses as a Russian Count in order to fleece women of their money. His latest target is the wife of an American diplomat, though he is also stringing along a hotel maid. The film is okay, though a bit dull.

Silent, but deadly

1,2
Mary and Gretel (1916) (7 minutes)
Max's Tragedy (1911) (13 minutes)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) (14 minutes)
Max Takes Tonics (1911) (17 minutes)
Love (1919) (23 minutes)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) (26 minutes)
The Tramp (1915) (26 minutes)
Daydreams (1915) (37 minutes)

3 - Sjæletyven (1916) - 7/10
4 - Engelein (1914) - 6/10
5 - Victory (1919) - 7.5/10
6 - Behind the Door (1919) - 7.5/10
7 - Filibus (1915) - 8/10
8 - The End of the World (1916) - 7.5/10
9 - The Whispering Chorus (1918) - 7/10
10 - South (1919) - 7.5/10
11 - The Warrior / Maciste alpino (1916) - 7/10
12 - A Trip to Mars (1918) - 6.5/10
13 - Eerie Tales (1919) - 6/10
14 - Atlantis (1913) - 7.5/10
15-19 - Barrabas (1919) (438 minutes) - 7/10
20 - Germinal (1913) - 8/10
21 - The Cossack Whip (1916) - 6.5/10
22 - The Witness for the Defense (1919) - 7.5/10
23 - Satan Triumphant (1917) - 6/10
24 - Flirting with Fate (1916) - 7.5/10
25 - The Open Road (1926) - 8/10
26 - Harbor Drift (1929) 5.5/10

27
There it Is (1928) (19 minutes)
The Pearl (1929) (34 minutes)
The Fall of Troy (1911) (28 minutes)

28 - The Great White Silence (1924) - 7.5/10
29 - Underground (1928) - 8.5/10

30
Thaïs (1917) (35 minutes)
The Mechanical Man (1921) (26 minutes)
Cenere (1917) (30 minutes)

31 - Pinocchio (1911) - 7.5/10
32 - Assunta Spina (1915) - 6.5/10
33 - Marvelous Maciste (1915) - 6.5/10
34 - Rails / Rotaie (1929) - 8/10
35 - 3 Bad Men (1926) - 8/10
36 - It (1927) - 8.5/10
37 - Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) - 7/10
38 - The Patsy (1928) - 8/10
39 - The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) - 7.5/10
40 - Bed and Sofa (1927) - 7.5/10
41 - Mother (1926) - 7/10
42 - Arsenal (1929) - 7/10
43 - Beggars of Life (1928) - 8/10
44 - The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929) - 7/10
45 - Visages d'enfants (1925) - 8.5/10
46 - The Scarlet Letter (1926) - 7.5/10
47 - La Roue / The Wheel (1923) - 7.5/10
48 - L'Argent (1928) - 7/10
49 - Spione / Spies (1928) - 8.5/10
50 - L'Inhumaine / The Inhuman Woman (1924) - 6/10
51 - Orphans of the Storm (1921) - 7/10
52 - The New Babylon (1929) - 6/10

[magnusbernhardsen]

4. Felix (Breistein, 1921)
Extremely boring melodrama.

Spoiler

1. a. La maison ensorcelée (de Chomon, 1907) 8 min.
b. Une excursion incohérente (de Chomon & de Morlhon. 1909) 8 min.
c. Ali Barbouyou et Ali Bouf à l'huile (Méliès, 1907) 2 min.
d. The Airship Destroyer (Booth, 1909) 7 min.
e. Les krémos: Pyramide (Brothers Lumière, 1899) 1 min.
f. La lanterne magique (Méliès, 1903) 5 min.
g. The Lonely Villa (Griffith, 1909) 12 min.
h. New York, Broadway (Promio, 1896) 1 min
i. Panorama de l’arrivée à Aix-les-Bains pris du train (temps de neige) (Brothers Lumière, 1896) 1 min.
j. Panorama de l’arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train (Brothers Lumière, 1896) 1 min.
k. Le portrait spirituel (Méliès, 1903) 2 min.
l. Daisy Doodad’s Dial (Turner, 1914) 9 min.
m. Fanden i nøtten (Cornelius, 1917) 4 min.
n. Paa jagt efter landets skjønneste kvinde: drama i en akt (Lykke-Seest, 1918) 8 min.
o. Rhythmus 21 (Richter, 1921) 3 min.
p. Cinq minutes de cinéma pur (Chomette, 1926) 5 min.
q. Vormittagsspuk (Richter, 1928) 8 min.
2. La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ (Zecca & Nonguet, 1903)
3. Historien om en gut (Lykke-Seest, 1919)