The WEJB/NSU Theater, 1902-1981:
Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902);
The Great Train Robbery (1903);
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);
Starring “Jack”: See the 1920 Silent Picture Classic of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde;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;
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 (Dr. Mabuse, Inferno, Part II, both 1922, released one month apart) with English subtitles;
James Cruze’s The Covered Wagon (1923);
John Ford’s The Iron Horse (1924);
Charlie, in The Gold Rush (1925);
Lon Chaney, in The Phantom of the Opera (1925);
King Vidor, Laurence Stallings, and Harry Behn’s The Big Parade (1925), Starring Gilbert and Adore!
Buster Keaton’s The General (1926);
John Ford’s 1926 Western, 3 Bad Men;
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (1927);
“Wild Bill” Wellman’s Restored, Classic Silent Picture, Wings (1927), One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners;
F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners);
Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s Dystopian Science Fiction Epic, Metropolis (1927), the Greatest S/F Picture Ever, Plus Its Soundtrack Suite;
Frank Borzage and Austin Strong’s Seventh Heaven (1927);
Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, Jack Jarmuth and Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer (1927), the First-Ever Talkie, Starring Al Jolson, by Warner Brothers;
St. Louis Blues (talkie, short, 1929);
Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou’s First Talkie: M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (M: A City Searches for a Murderer);
Paul Robeson in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones (talkie, 1933);
Kate Hepburn in Quality Street (1937);
Cary Grant and Roz Russell in Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, and Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940);
Zero’s Since You Went Away (1944);
William Dieterle’s A Portrait of Jennie (1948); and
Paul Newman, in Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981).
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Here's some depressing news: I came across a YouTube channel with hundreds of old movies (some pd, some not), not unusual in itself. What was odd was that almost every movie was posted in a black and white AND a colorized version (AI or whatever they're using must be making the process absurdly easy these days). The awful part: the colorized versions had a whopping edge over the original versions in number of times viewed, more than 10 to one in most cases! This doesn't bode well. And what I think of people who waste time and resources ruining old movies, as well as what I think of people who won't watch black and white, isn't printable here. -RM
Addendum: I realize the original versions of these movies aren't being thrown away, but it looks like no one is going to want to watch them in a generation or so- assuming anything is left of Western Civilization by that time anyway. (I read long ago that colorized movies and TV shows, never much of a success here, were popular as exports to foreign markets, where color was the overwhelming preference.) -RM
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