Year by Year Polls: 1926 (Closed)

gromit82 · #1

Welcome to the Year-by-Year Poll!

This poll is for the year 1926.

These polls are fairly simple. We work our way through film history selecting a different year each time, and you list your top films from the given year. Depending on the number of voters, the poll usually produces a list of around 50-90 films and is a great way of finding recommendations. Some people may also list other films outside their top 20 as honorable mentions or runners-up.

The Rules

- You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.

- Feature films, documentaries, short films, TV movies, and TV mini-series are all eligible, but not continuing TV series or individual TV episodes.

- We use IMDb dates for consistency, so a title should be listed on IMDb as 1926.

- Your ballot can be either ranked or unranked, but for ranked ballots, your list must be numbered, starting with 1 and ending with the number for the last ranked film. Partially ranked lists (where a certain number at the top are ranked, and the rest are unranked) are allowed. Please make sure that what you mean to do with your list is clear.

- IMPORTANT: Along with a list of the titles, please include the corresponding list of bare IMDb urls for the same films. Your ballot cannot be counted if the IMDb urls are not included. (And if you list only the URLs but not the films' titles, you'll significantly reduce your fellow voters' enjoyment of this poll, so please make sure to include both titles and URLs.)

- For the Year by Year polls, we don't use IMDb lists or ICM lists; please post your list of movie titles and URLs right here in this thread.

- Please note, you must post your list of URLs yourself rather than having someone else do that for you.

The Scoring

For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive a number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each succeeding title receiving one fewer point. So the top title on a list of 20 films will receive 20 points, the next 19 points and so on. If the list has only 10 films, the top title will receive 10 points, the next one 9, and so on. If there are 5 films on the list, the top film will receive 5 points, the next one 4, etc.

For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted to the ballot if it had been ranked. If there are 20 films on the ballot, this means each one would receive 10.5 points.

Some resources

1926 films sorted by most votes on IMDb

1926 films you've rated on IMDb

Wikipedia's 1926 in film article

1926 films you've checked on ICM

1926 films you *haven't* checked on ICM

Previous poll results as ICM lists

Rather than posting all the links to every poll we have conducted here, I'll just post the link to all past results:
viewtopic.php?t=5299#p686208

The following are the ICM lists for the polls we have conducted this year:

2023: 1992 results, 1931 results, 2001 results, 2015 results, 2022 results, 1954 results, 1988 results, 1961 results, 1970 results

The Deadline

This poll will close on Friday, December 1, at 11:59 PM Hawaii Time (UTC -10). You may revise or add a ballot anytime until the poll is indicated closed in the subject header.

The next poll will be for 1995, followed by 1947.

gromit82 · #2

This post is reserved for eligibility rulings.

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock) is listed by IMDb as a 1927 film and placed 6th in our poll for 1927. It's not eligible for this 1926 poll.

beavis · #3

This is only out of 21 features seen... maybe I should limit it to the top 5 only, which are all 4-star movies... but the 3.5 selection here is quite strong too, just not completely my taste in general but very well made and imaginative features that have rightfully stood the test of time.

1. 4 - A Page of Madness
2. 4 - Faust
3. 4 - For Heaven's Sake
4. 4 - Flesh and the Devil
5. 4 - Moana
6. 3,5 - The Adventures of Prince Achmed
7. 3,5 - The General
8. 3,5 - Ella Cinders
9. 3,5 - 3 Bad Men
10. 3,5 - Le Voyage imaginaire

Spoiler

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hurluberlu · #4

1. By the Law ( Lev Kuleshov )
2. The General ( Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman )
3. The Adventures of Prince Achmed ( Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch )
4. Ménilmontant ( Dimitri Kirsanoff )
5. Faust ( F.W. Murnau )
6. Flesh and the Devil ( Clarence Brown )
7. The Violinist of Florence ( Paul Czinner )
8. A Page of Madness ( Teinosuke Kinugasa )
9. Mother ( Vsevolod Pudovkin )

Spoiler

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016884/
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joachimt · #5

1. Po zakonu (Lev Kuleshov)
2. The General (Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman)
3. Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage (F.W. Murnau)
4. Mat (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
5. Moana (Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty)
6. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
7. For Heaven's Sake (Sam Taylor)
8. Kurutta ippêji (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
9. Battling Butler (Buster Keaton)
10. Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown)

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017162/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147039/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016895/
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iCheckMovies · #6

My top 20:

1. Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926, F.W. Murnau)
2. Po zakonu / By the Law (1926, Lev Kuleshov)
3. Rien que les heures / Nothing But Time (1926, Alberto Cavalcanti)
4. Hands Up! (1926, Clarence G. Badger)
5. Shestaya chast mira / One-Sixth of the World (1926, Dziga Vertov)
6. Die letzte Droschke von Berlin / The Last Taxi in Berlin (1926, Carl Boese)
7. Shagay, sovet! / Forward, Soviet! (1926, Dziga Vertov)
8. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926, Lotte Reiniger)
9. Filmstudie (1926, Hans Richter)
10. The Open Road (1926, Claude Friese-Greene)

11. Menschen untereinander / The People Upstairs (1926, Gerhard Lamprecht)
12. 3 Bad Men (1926, John Ford)
13. Protsess o tryokh millionakh / The Case of the Three Million (1926, Yakov Protazanov)
14. Geheimnisse einer Seele / Secrets of a Soul (1926, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
15. The General (1926, Buster Keaton)
16. Mauprat (1926, Jean Epstein)
17. The Temptress (1926, Fred Niblo)
18. The Magician (1926, Rex Ingram)
19. Klovnen / The Clown (1926, A.W. Sandberg)
20. Bardelys the Magnificent (1926, King Vidor)

URLs:

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beavis · #7

Feu Pascal is 1925 now, i almost included it myself

iCheckMovies · #8

beavis wrote: ↑November 4th, 2023, 9:13 am Feu Pascal is 1925 now, i almost included it myself

Thanks Beavis, I ended up doing something I rarely do, show love for a short in a poll.

LeSchpountz · #9

... and here is my top list:

1 Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage (Faust, 1926, F.W. Murnau)
2 Po zakonu (By the Law, 1926, Lev Kuleshov)
3 Mat (Mother, 1926, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
4 Kurutta ippêji (A Page of Madness, 1926, Teinosuke Kinugasa)
5 Ménilmontant (1926, Dimitri Kirsanoff)
6 Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926, Lotte Reiniger)
7 Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague, 1926, Henrik Galeen)
8 The Scarlet Letter (1926, Victor Sjöström)
9 3 Bad Men (1926, John Ford)
10 Miss Mend (The Adventures of the Three Reporters, 1926, Boris Barnet & Fyodor Otsep)
11 Shestaya chast mira (The Sixth Part of the World, 1926, Dziga Vertov)
12 Rien que les heures (Nothing But Time, 1926, Alberto Cavalcanti)
13 Die letzte Droschke von Berlin (The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin, 1926, Carl Boese)
14 Die Unehelichen (Children of No Importance, 1926, Gerhard Lamprecht)
15 Menschen untereinander (The People among Us, 1926, Gerhard Lamprecht)
16 Geheimnisse einer Seele (Secrets of a Soul, 1926, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
17 Flesh and the Devil (1926, Clarence Brown)
18 La bohème (1926, King Vidor)
19 Sparrows (1926, William Beaudine)
20 The Black Pirate (The Black Buccaneer, 1926, Albert Parker)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017350/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017463/
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017376/
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017498/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129232/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016914/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016884/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016669/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017423/
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peeptoad · #10

1. Kurutta ippêji
2. Ménilmontant
3. Rien que les hueres
4. The Bat
5. Faust

6. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
7. The General
8. Po zakonu
9. Filmstudie
10. Cinq minutes de cinéma pur

11. Moonland
12. The Magician
13. The Blackbird
14. Anemic Cinema
15. Der Student von Prague

1926

timshelboy · #11

1 LOVE EM AND LEAVE EM
2 BEAU GESTE
3 A PAGE OF MADNESS
4 DON JUAN
5 THE GENERAL

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klaus78 · #12

Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
Ménilmontant
Po zakonu
The General
Mat
Shestaya chast mira
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
Kurutta ippêji
Der heilige Berg
3 Bad Men

Spoiler

gunnar · #13

1. The General
2. Tell it to the Marines
3. 3 Bad Men
4. The Open Road
5. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
6. Sparrows
7. By the Law
8. A Page of Madness
9. Ménilmontant
10. For Heaven’s Sake
11. The Scarlet Letter
12. Faust
13. Flesh and the Devil
14. Nothing But Time
15. The Great K&A Train Robbery
16. Mother

Spoiler

Mysterious Dude · #14

MartinTeller · #15

1. A Page of Madness
2. The Scarlet Letter
3. Mother
4. Faust
5. Rien que les heures
6. The General
7. Mighty Like a Moose
8. Moana
9. The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Spoiler

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017350/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017128/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016847/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183710/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017925/
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017162/
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Y U M E · #16

1926

I've seen not enough films from 1926 to make a full ballot.
Actually, it's together with 1922 the year from the 1920s I saw least films from.
But from the ones I've seen there are some pretty strong contenders.

01. Kurutta Ippēji | A Page of Madness (Kinogasa)
02. Faust: Eine Deutsche Volkssage (Murnau)
03. Le Voyage Imaginaire | The Imaginary Voyage (Clair)
04. The General (Keaton/Bruckman)

05. Mat' | Mother (Pudovkin)
06. Der Heilige Berg | The Holy Mountain (Fanck)
07. Shinel | The Overcoat (Kozintsev/Trauberg)
08. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (Reiniger)

09. 3 Bad Men (Ford)
10. Po Zakonu | By the Law (Kuleshov)
11. Flesh and the Devil (Brown)
12. Rien Que les Heures | Nothing But Time (Cavalcanti)

Spoiler

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016847/
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017128/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016953/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017378/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015532/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017463/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017271/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016884/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183710/

LeSchpountz · #17

Note: There was actually a press screening of the film "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" in September 1926, but the premiere did not take place until January/February 1927. I have this film in my favorites for 1927.

gromit82 · #18

LeSchpountz wrote: ↑November 5th, 2023, 10:21 am Note: There was actually a press screening of the film "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" in September 1926, but the premiere did not take place until January/February 1927. I have this film in my favorites for 1927.

The Lodger placed 6th in our poll for 1927 (held here in 2017), and it's still listed as a 1927 film by IMDb. It's not eligible for 1926.

prodigalgodson · #19

Yeah, I'm pretty embarrassingly limited here, but I'll throw my hat in the ring for Vertov's sake.

1. A Sixth of the World (Dziga Vertov)
2. By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
3. Emak-Bakia (Man Ray)
4. Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
5. Stride, Soviet! (Dziga Vertov)

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Leopardi · #20

1. The General (Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton)
2. Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage [Faust] (F.W. Murnau)
3. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
4. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger & Carl Koch)
5. The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King)
6. Now You Tell One (Charles R. Bowers & Harold L. Muller)
7. Kurutta ippêji [A Page of Madness] (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
8. So This is Paris (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Geheimnisse einer Seele [Secrets of a Soul] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
10. The Bat (Roland West)
11. Shagay, sovet! [Stride, Soviet!] (Dziga Vertov)
12. Rien que les heures [Nothing But the Hours] (Alberto Cavalcanti)
13. The Magician (Rex Ingram)
14. Sparrows (William Beaudine & Tom McNamara)
15. The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström)
16. For Heaven's Sake (Sam Taylor)
17. Tell it to the Marines (George W. Hill)
18. The Black Pirate (Albert Parker)
19. Beverly of Graustark (Sidney Franklin)
20. Anémic cinéma [Anemic Cinema] (Marcel Duchamp)

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PUNQ · #21

I'm at 549 films from 1926. It's a year I have fond memories of visiting, especially for comedy and darker affairs.

1. The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
2. The Scarlet Letter (1926, Victor Sjöström)
3. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (1926, Lotte Reiniger)
4. Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926, F.W. Murnau)
5. Miss Mend (1926, Boris Barnet & Fyodor Otsep)
6. Flesh and the Devil (1926, Clarence Brown)
7. For Heaven’s Sake (1926, Sam Taylor)
8. Sparrows (1926, William Beaudine)
9. 3 Bad Men (1926, John Ford)
10. Po zakonu [By the Law] (1926, Lev Kuleshov)
11. The Bat (1926, Roland West)
12. The Strong Man (1926, Frank Capra)
13. The Blackbird (1926, Tod Browning)
14. Kurutta Ippeji [A Crazy Page] (1926, Teinosuke Kinugasa)
15. Beau Geste (1926, Herbert Brenon)
16. The Temptress (1926, Fred Niblo)
17. What Price Glory (1926, Raoul Walsh)
18. Nana (1926, Jean Renoir)
19. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926, Harry Edwards)
20. Don Juan (1926, Alan Crosland)

Top-21-100

21. The Volga Boatman (1926, Cecil B. DeMille)
22. Ménilmontant (1926, Dimitri Kirsanoff)
23. So This Is Paris (1926, Ernst Lubitsch)
24. Der heilige Berg [The Holy Mountain] (1926, Arnold Fanck)
25. Poker Faces (1926, Harry A. Pollard)
26. The Fire Brigade (1926, William Nigh)
27. Michel Strogoff (1926, Viktor Tourjansky)
28. Manon Lescaut (1926, Arthur Robison)
29. Padlocked (1926, Allan Dwan)
30. Das Blumenwunder (1926, Max Reichmann)
31. Whispering Wires (1926, Albert Ray)
32. Mat [Mother] (1926, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
33. Mantrap (1926, Victor Fleming)
34. So's Your Old Man (1926, Gregory La Cava)
35. Bardelys the Magnificent (1926, King Vidor)
36. The Sea Beast (1926, Millard Webb)
37. Die letzte Droschke von Berlin [The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin] (1926, Carl Boese)
38. Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei [The Last Days of Pompeii] (1926, Carmine Gallone & Amleto Palermi)
39. Brown of Harvard (1926, Jack Conway)
40. Rien que les heures (1926, Alberto Cavalcanti)
41. Geheimnisse einer Seele [Secrets of a Soul] (1926, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
42. You Never Know Women (1926, William A. Wellman)
43. Twinkletoes (1926, Charles Brabin)
44. Klovnen [The Clown] (1926, A.W. Sandberg)
45. The Bells (1926, James Young)
46. The Magician (1926, Rex Ingram)
47. Torrent (1926, Monta Bell)
48. La bohème (1926, King Vidor)
49. Playing with Fire (1926, Charles R. Bowers & Bud Fisher)
50. Now You Tell One (1926, Charles R. Bowers & Harold L. Muller)
51. Ella Cinders (1926, Alfred E. Green)
52. Exit Smiling (1926, Sam Taylor)
53. Battling Butler (1926, Buster Keaton)
54. The Black Pirate (1926, Albert Parker)
55. Mare Nostrum [Our Sea] (1926, Rex Ingram)
56. Med ackja och ren i Inka Läntas vinterland [By Sledge and Reindeer in Inka Länta's Winterland] (1926, Erik Bergström)
57. The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926, James W. Horne)
58. Brudeferden i Hardanger [The Bridal Party in Hardanger] (1926, Rasmus Breistein)
59. Mit dem Motorrad über die Wolken [A Motorcycle Trip Among the Clouds] (1926, Lothar Rübelt)
60. The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926, Henry King)
61. Young April (1926, Donald Crisp)
62. The Pleasure Buyers (1925, Chester Withey)
63. The Road to Mandalay (1926, Tod Browning)
64. The Heavy Parade (1926, Gilbert Pratt)
65. Flickan i frack [Girl in Tails] (1926, Karin Swanström)
66. The Belle of Broadway (1926, Harry O. Hoyt)
67. What Happened to Jones? (1926, William A. Seiter)
68. Skinner's Dress Suit (1926, William A. Seiter)
69. Pete's Haunted House (1926, Walter Lantz)
70. Meren kasvojen edessä (1926, Teuvo Puro)
71. April Fool (1926, Nat Ross)
72. Getting Gertie's Garter (1927, E. Mason Hopper)
73. Paris en cinq jours [Paris in Five Days] (1926, Pierre Colombier & Nicolas Rimsky)
74. Luftskibet 'Norge's flugt over polhavet (1926, Norway)
75. Saturday Afternoon (1926, Harry Edwards)
76. Le vertige [The Lady of Petrograd] (1926, Marcel L'Herbier)
77. Tell It to the Marines (1926, George W. Hill)
78. Gribiche (1926, Jacques Feyder)
79. The Blue Eagle (1926, John Ford)
80. Die Unehelichen [Children of No Importance] (1926, Gerhard Lamprecht)
81. Old Ironsides (1926, James Cruze)
82. Lightning Hutch (1926, Charles Hutchison)
83. Der Student von Prag [The Student of Prague] (1926, Henrik Galeen)
84. Mighty Like a Moose (1926, Leo McCarey)
85. Fig Leaves (1926, Howard Hawks)
86. Glomdalsbruden (1926, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
87. The Sorrows of Satan (1926, D.W. Griffith)
88. Baldevins bryllup (1926, George Schnéevoigt)
89. The Duchess of Buffalo (1926, Sidney Franklin)
90. Long Fliv the King (1926, Leo McCarey)
91. Carmen (1926, Jacques Feyder)
92. Die keusche Susanne [The Innocent Susanne] (1926, Richard Eichberg)
93. That Model from Paris (1926, Louis J. Gasnier)
94. Egged On (1926, Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller & Ted Sears)
95. Thundering Fleas (1926, Robert F. McGowan)
96. Soldier Man (1926, Harry Edwards)
97. Beverly of Graustark (1926, Sidney Franklin)
98. Dog Shy (1926, Leo McCarey)
99. Raggedy Rose (1926, Richard Wallace)
100. The Devil's Circus (1926, Benjamin Christensen)

The URLs

msainy · #22

1. The General.
2. Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage.
3. Po zakonu
4. Kurutta ippêji.
5. 3 Bad Men
6. Moana
7. So This Is Paris
8. Ménilmontant.
9. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed.
10. La Bohème.

urls

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016847/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017271/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017048/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017463/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017162/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017409/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147039/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015532/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016669/

Caracortada · #23

Flesh and the Devil
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Sparrows
The General
Ella Cinders
The Scarlet Letter
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
The Show-Off
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
The Temptress
For Heaven's Sake
Along Came Auntie [short]
Bromo and Juliet [short]
Crazy Like a Fox [short]
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed

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gromit82 · #24

I have a question about the film ELLA CINDERS. IMDb and Reelgood both list the film at 75 minutes, while the original 1926 review in Variety lists it at 67 minutes.

However, when I got the flim from the public library on DVD (as released by Alpha Home Entertainment), it was only 51 minutes, and the version available on Cineverse is also 51 minutes.

The synopses I've found don't suggest that any of the scenes were missing from the DVD I watched.

I realize that silent films didn't always have fixed running times since they weren't always shown at the same frames per second rate, but I'd like to make sure that I haven't missed a third of the film by watching the Alpha DVD (which even misspells Colleen Moore's name as "Coleen" on the front cover). Does anyone have any information about this film's length?

RogerTheMovieManiac88 · #25

gromit82 wrote: ↑November 8th, 2023, 12:52 am I have a question about the film ELLA CINDERS. IMDb and Reelgood both list the film at 75 minutes, while the original 1926 review in Variety lists it at 67 minutes.

However, when I got the flim from the public library on DVD (as released by Alpha Home Entertainment), it was only 51 minutes, and the version available on Cineverse is also 51 minutes.

The synopses I've found don't suggest that any of the scenes were missing from the DVD I watched.

I realize that silent films didn't always have fixed running times since they weren't always shown at the same frames per second rate, but I'd like to make sure that I haven't missed a third of the film by watching the Alpha DVD (which even misspells Colleen Moore's name as "Coleen" on the front cover). Does anyone have any information about this film's length?

Some of the film has been lost after the film was cut down to five reels by the Kodascope Library.

https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=27448

gromit82 · #26

RogerTheMovieManiac88 wrote: ↑November 8th, 2023, 1:04 am
gromit82 wrote: ↑November 8th, 2023, 12:52 am I have a question about the film ELLA CINDERS. IMDb and Reelgood both list the film at 75 minutes, while the original 1926 review in Variety lists it at 67 minutes.

However, when I got the flim from the public library on DVD (as released by Alpha Home Entertainment), it was only 51 minutes, and the version available on Cineverse is also 51 minutes.
Some of the film has been lost after the film was cut down to five reels by the Kodascope Library.

https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=27448

Thanks, that's helpful information.

South by Southeast · #27

1. Menilmontant
2. Sparrows
3. Mat
4. The General
5. Faust

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147039/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017423/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017128/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017925/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016847/

insomnius · #28

Ranked

1. Kurutta ippêji / A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
2. Po zakonu / By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
3. Glomdalsbruden (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
5. Emak-Bakia (Man Ray)
6. The Open Road (Claude Friese-Greene)
7. Rien que les heures (Alberto Cavalcanti)
8. Der heilige Berg (Arnold Fanck)
9. Napoli che canta (Roberto Roberti)
10. 3 Bad Men (John Ford)
11. Mat / Mother (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
12. Der Student von Prag (Henrik Galeen)
13. Klovnen (A.W. Sandberg)
14. Cinq minutes de cinéma pur (Henri Chomette)
15. Miss Mend (Boris Barnet, Fyodor Otsep)
16. Filmstudie (Hans Richter)
17. Kashtanka (Ivan Pravov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya)
18. Spirals (Oskar Fischinger)
19. Bara en danserska (Olof Molander)
20. Med ackja och ren i Inka Läntas vinterland (Erik Bergström)

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jeff_v · #29

1. The General
2. Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
3. Kurutta ippêji / A Page of Madness
4. Po zakonu / By the Law
5. Ménilmontant
6. For Heaven's Sake
7. 3 Bad Men
8. Flesh and the Devil
9. La Bohème
10. Mat / Mother
11. The Scarlet Letter
12. The Winning of Barbara Worth
13. Sparrows
14. Battling Butler
15. The Temptress
16. Rien que les heures / Nothing but Time
17. Bardelys the Magnificent
18. Shestaya chast mira / A Sixth Part of the World
19. Don Juan
20. The Magician

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Carmel1379 · #30

#1 The General
#2 狂った一頁 ('Kurutta ippêji') / A Page of Madness
#3 Ménilmontant
#4 Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
#5 По закону / Po zakonu / By the Law
#6 Cinq minutes de cinema pur
#7 Mat / Mother
#8 Rien que les heures
#9 Spirals
#10 Emak-Bakia
#11 Der Student von Prag
#12 Glomdalsbruden / The Bride of Glomdal
#13 Filmstudie
#14 Anêmic cinéma
#15 The Temptress
#16 Scents and Nonsense
#17 Slick Sleuths
#18 Koko the Convict
#19 Alice's Little Parade
#20 Der Aufstieg

urls

gromit82 · #31

1. Battling Butler
2. Now You Tell One
3. For Heaven's Sake
4. The General
5. Ella Cinders
6. Sparrows
7. The Penwiper

URLs

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016630/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017214/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016895/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017925/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016822/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017423/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228356/

zzzorf · #32

1. The General
2. Moana
3. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
4. Miss Mend
5. The Moth of Moonbi
6. Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
7. Glomdalsbruden
8. Raggedy Rose
9. Die Kleine vom Varieté
10. The Nickel-Hopper
11. Jungle Woman
12. Ménilmontant
13. Greenhide
14. Po zakonu
15. The Magician
16. Der Student von Prag
17. General Custer at the Little Big Horn
18. Black Sunday
19. Kurutta ippêji

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Angel Glez · #33

Unranked:
3 Bad Men
Bardelys the Magnificent
Fig Leaves
Flesh and the Devil
Gigantes y cabezudos (Giants and Big Heads)
Glomdalsbruden (The Bride of Glomdal)
Hands Up!
Katka-bumazhnyy ranet (Katka’s Reinette Apples)
Klovnen (The Golden Clown)
Mare Nostrum
Mat (Mother)
So This Is Paris
The Devil's Circus
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
The Great K & A Train Robbery
The Road to Mandalay
The Son of the Sheik
The Volga Boatman
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Up in Mabel's Room

URLs

viktor-vaudevillain · #34

1. Ménilmontant (Kirsanoff)
2. The General (Keaton & Bruckman)
3. A Page of Madness (Kinugasa)
4. Anemic Cinema (Duchamp)
5. The Flute of Krishna (Mamoulian)
6. Five Minutes of Pure Cinema (Chomette)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147039/?ref_=sr_t_3
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017925/?ref_=sr_t_2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017048/?r ... 520madness
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123380/?ref_=sr_t_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495920/?r ... ishna%2520
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294453/?r ... mg_c_14_dr

George Eastman · #35

gromit82 · #36

This is just a reminder that there are just over 6 days left to vote in this poll. You can always update your ballot at any time before the poll closes (and you don't have to notify me if you do, since I don't start compiling the ballots until after the deadline).

gromit82 · #37

There are now just over 3 days left to vote in this poll.

Rufus-T · #38

1. Faust
2. The Scarlet Letter
3. The General
4. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
5. A Page of Madness
6. The Holy Mountain
7. Don Juan
8. La Bohème
9. Flesh and the Devil

IMDb links

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016847/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017350/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017925/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015532/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017048/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016953/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016804/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016669/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016884/

sol · #39

Obgeoff · #40

Hoping to see one or two more before the deadline but so I don't miss it.

1. The General (Keaton)
2. Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage (Murnau)
3. The Scarlet Letter (Sjöström)
4. Kurutta ippêji (Kinugasa)
5. Battling Butler (Keaton)
6. Ménilmontant (Kirsanoff)
7. Moana (Flaherty)
8. Rien que les heures (Cavalcanti)
9. Flesh and the Devil (Brown)
10. Po zakonu (Kuleshov)
11. 3 Bad Men (Ford)
12. So This Is Paris (Lubitsch)
13. Shestaya chast mira (Vertov)
14. The Son of the Sheik (Fitzmaurice)
15. Der heilige Berg (Fanck, Riefenstahl)
16. For Heaven's Sake (Taylor)
17. Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (Reiniger, Koch)
18. Filmstudie (Richter)
19. La Bohème (Vidor)
20. The Winning of Barbara Worth (King)

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