Re-posted by N.S.
The music is lovely, but it was surely composed and played generations after the picture was originally shot and released.
Other Complete, Silent Classics (with One Exception) Available at WEJB/NSU:
C.B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914);
D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915);
D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1916);
Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms (1918);
Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920);
Buster Keaton's One Week (1920);
D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920);
F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1921);
The Kid (1921), Charlie Chaplin’s First Feature as Director, Co-Starring Jackie Coogan;
Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s First Pictures Featuring the Evil Genius, Dr. Mabuse: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, Teil I (Dr. Mabuse, the Player, Part I); and Dr. Mabuse, Teil II: Inferno (both 1922, released one month apart) with English Subtitles;
James Cruze’s The Covered Wagon (1923);
John Ford’s The Iron Horse (1924);
Buster Keaton’s The General (1926);
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (1927);
F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927);
Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s Dystopian Science Fiction Epic, Metropolis (1927), Plus Its Soundtrack Suite;
Frank Borzage and Austin Strong’s Seventh Heaven (1927); and
Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou’s First Talkie: M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (M: A City Searches for a Murderer).
Incredible that less than 100 years ago,there were only silent pictures and people thought THAT was amazing.A hundred years from now,will individuals have "movies" transmitted to that proverbial "chip in their brains" that's been implanted?
ReplyDeleteAs violent as everyone is now,one can only think that the cure for mass violence and criminality in the future IS brain reconstruction via technology.Not that I would volunteer for such a procedure,but I doubt if the citizenry would have much of a choice.
Think a slightly more functional version of Randall P. McMurphy at the end of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
--GRA
Thank you Nicholas those links to the movies outstanding
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, sunday, april 2, 2023 at 11:15:00 a.m. edt
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome!