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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 1, 2019 6:25:25 GMT -5
Does anyone here like and watch silent film or any other really old movies? I've been watching a lot of silent films on DVD I rented from the library and I actually prefer them over modern film. It's fascinating to see how film evolved and how creative directors and actors had to be, and early experiments with color and sound. I'm also weirdly fascinated with lost films, those films which are lost after the nitrate film stock disintegrated and wondering how the film might have been, ever since seeing Decasia
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Post by Tim on May 8, 2019 18:00:16 GMT -5
I've seen a few.
Nice that some of these old movies still exist. Many have been lost forever, because they didn't see how treasured they would become.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 8, 2019 20:05:33 GMT -5
I was surprised that many of the old movies didn't exist since nitrate film is very unstable and flammable, I'd assumed film lasted forever. I've finished watching a DVD of The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino and maybe this weekend I'll watch Son of the Sheik, neither film could be made today since they might be seen as racist and sexist.
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Post by Tim on May 9, 2019 23:30:02 GMT -5
At least that movie still exists.
The farther back you go, the more chance that the movies from that time have been lost.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 10, 2019 4:06:27 GMT -5
Maybe you ought to check out Decasia, it's seriously creepy. It's made of disintegrating nitrate film with a soundtrack which sounds like something out of a horror film. I rented the Blu-Ray from the library. I read that something like 90 percent of the silent films are home, they either rotted or the studios melted the film to get the silver content
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Post by Tim on May 10, 2019 11:55:32 GMT -5
I believe the 1925 movie, Metropolis (no connection to Superman, as he wouldn't be invented for another 13 years), was considered lost at one time.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 10, 2019 17:01:22 GMT -5
Yeah, what happened with the BBC also happened here with our TV networks when they dumped old TV footage into the East River back in the 70s. I've seen Metropolis and it's amazing, it was made over 90 years ago and the special effects are brilliant. German cinema was great before the Nazis.
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Post by Tim on May 10, 2019 17:21:42 GMT -5
You mention "Metropolis" today and many will picture Superman. As I said, this movie predates his creation by 13 years.
At least that movie still exists.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 11, 2019 17:40:21 GMT -5
Right now I'm watching a compilation DVD from the National Film Archives, it has everything from the old Edison stuff to newsreels and weird silent films.
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Post by Tim on May 11, 2019 23:17:25 GMT -5
Sounds good.
Let us know what you thought of it.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 15, 2019 16:09:56 GMT -5
The boxed set was cool,there was an ancient Edison film with sound from 1894 along with a Rin Tin Tin film and everything else from the first version of Wizard of Oz to newsreels. The newsreel was weird because it portrayed Mussolini as a good guy but it was from 1927.
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Post by Tim on May 15, 2019 17:51:49 GMT -5
Nice that some of these old films are still around.
One of the most famous, or infamous, is Birth Of A Nation from 1915.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 15, 2019 19:02:52 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on May 15, 2019 23:28:48 GMT -5
This film is 125 years old!
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 17, 2019 20:06:19 GMT -5
These are the trailers for lost films on the DVD, some of them look as though they were awesome: youtu.be/L_vcXv7MwVQ
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