1913 Poll

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Maybe Rasputin's image didn't register in cameras. Remember how special he was...

Speaking of musicals, like we were, I notice that Der Tangokonigen describes iself as "ein fim mit tanz und musik" -- as if they might have been thinking that the sliding and gliding onscreen with the live performance in the auditorium would do the work of creating the carefree gaiety we associate with musical theatre...

Yes, this stood out for me too! Basically a silent musical, clearly designed entirely for an exhibition context of musical accompaniment.

[sally]

characters more subtle

I noticed that -- less strongly -- with Life Of Wagner, as well; there were elements in place that still work to create sympathy/identification with the characters, in spite of the archaic factors that inhibit such. My hypothesis... just intuiting,.. was that it was the very length of the movie that contributed most to that, spending two hours with people inherently promotes investment in them.

dunno about sympathy, wagner was vile and this is a repulsive episodic hagiography, but also, gosh, this is good. if germinal wasn't around being all human and decent then this might have had my top spot...loved the fantasy opera interludes...



NAKED WAGNER!






who can turn their back on the camera? only a king (ludwig II) can!

[ofrene]

The Child of Paris (Leonce Perret, 1913)

Fantomas: Juve Against Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)

Suspense (Lois Weber)

Fantomas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine (Louis Feuillade)

Fantomas: The Dead Man Who Killed (Louis Feuillade)

Tragic Error (Louis Feuillade)

Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgeni Bauer)

[greennui]

Fin ale.

1. Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgeni Bauer)

Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström)
Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine (Louis Feuillade)
Fantômas: Juve Against Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed (Louis Feuillade)
Drama on the Volga (Nikolai Larin)
Suspense (Lois Weber)
Two Zeeland girls in Zandvoort (Louis H. Chrispijn)
How Men Propose (Lois Weber)
The Film Prima-Donna (Urban Gad)
Tragic Error (Louis Feuillade)
Protéa (Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
The Right To Exist (Joseph Delmont)
Au pays des lits clos ( Maurice Mariaud)
The Tango Queen (Max Mack)
The Rocks and Caves of Baume
Port of Barcelona
Constantine

[sally]

i'm running out of watchable things now, was going to rewatch fantomas, but that might be stretching it a bit

but this is priceless. she's literally polishing his sword. (and she nicks herself, there's the little bit of blood, but he kisses it better and everyone is happy) 1913 was total filth! if i had been cinema-going back then i would have spent most of the time screaming at the screen


hurra! einquartierung! franz hofer

[rischka]

Germinal
Twilight of a woman's soul
Ingeborg holm
Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola
L'enfant de Paris
Two Zeeland girls
Juve Contre Fantômas
Le Mort Qui Tue
Traffic in souls
Der student von prag
The last days of Pompeii (casserini)
Die filmprimadonna

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[Lencho of the Apes]

tercentenary of the romanov dynasty

I seldom had much idea of what was going on, but it was pretty pictures.

After I figured out that the idea was to show eightyleven vignettes of 30 or 40 seconds to illustrate important events across that span of 300 years, one of my superpowers kicked in (New Title Man to the rescue!) and I decided that this movie should hereinafter more properly be known as...







Czars On 45

[Lencho of the Apes]

I've run out of material, except for Old Scrooge for tonight, so here. Take it.

Erreur Tragique - Feuillade

Atlantis - August Blom
Drama On The Volga - Nikolai Larin
Las extraordinarias aventuras de Saturnino Farandola
Fantomas
The Farmer's Daughters
Germinal
Ingeborg Holm - Sjostrom
The Life Of Richard wagner - Carl Froelich
A Message from Mars -
Stronger Than Sherlock Holmes - Patrone, de Chomon
Tangokonigen
Traffic In Souls -
Tannhauser - Lucius Henderson
Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgeni Bauer)
Wo Ist Coletti - Max Mack

[Lencho of the Apes]

By the way, did anybody get The Death Of Minnehaha from youtube? The host channel was deleted around Feb. 3rd and I missed it. An interesting quirk is that it apparently was performed in Ameslan...

[sally]

i'm done too. it's been fun, 133 1913 films logged (not that impressive, most of them are shorts) and first time ever that i watched everything i'd bookmarked (apart from the monsereau dames that disappeared in the interim) but i am ready for some modern stuff now.

my final list is definitely favourites, not best. can concur with something lencho said somewhere - the US stuff is markedly more fluid and technically advanced - but coupled with a leaden sentimentality (mack S overriding aside) this all seems to me to come at the cost of image composition, psychological depth and just general meaning, so much that even the stupidest overripe euro comedy seems somehow more sophisticated, not that i don't find all the secret gang crime stuff of the old world also pretty uninteresting.

so apart from my first few choices, what's going to stick from 1913 is isolated moments, or gestures: onésime covered in snails, that knock-out ending of l'ultima vittima (the light! the light!), napoleon waggling a magpie, the pseudo-phallus barrage of crossed swords (still hilarious), the saddest clown reality of max toreador, tannhäuser's head swathed in dancing pussy, jack as léaud cast upon the floor, lionel barrymore's bubbling girls, mute but mouthingly mad hamlet, that special effect from mars, the hot tattoo kiss, absolute nero in quo vadis, the winking frenchness of léonce's comedies, the monty python villain in ivanhoe, ludwig II taking on the entire 4th wall...

best actor: pina fabbri (pure diva)
hardest working actors: those same poor lions cropping up in every italian peplum
best hair: norma talmadge in a lady and her maid

1. germinal (capellani)
2. twilight of a woman's soul (bauer)
3. ingeborg holm (sjöström)
4. the life of richard wagner (froelich, wauer)
5. tragic error (feuillade)
6. the night before christmas (starewicz)
7. the last days of pompeii (caserini)
8. the winter's tale (negroni)
9. shepherdess of ivry (tourneur)
10. the rocks and caves of baume
11. au pays des lits clos (mariaud)
12. the right to exist (delmont)
13. suffragette derby of 1913 (gaumont) fuck you asta fuck you 100 times over
14. tannhäuser (henderson)
15. life of the jews of palestine (sokolovsky)
16. max toréador (linder)
17. drama on the volga (larin)
18. il matrimonio di figaro (maggi)
19. crossed swords (schnedler-sørensen)
20. spartacus (enrico vidali)

[sally]

By the way, did anybody get The Death Of Minnehaha from youtube? The host channel was deleted around Feb. 3rd and I missed it. An interesting quirk is that it apparently was performed in Ameslan...

no sorry! i lost like 4 youtube channels this month, it has been hard

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Final list - will edit if I get a chance for more before tomorrow evening

1. Suspense (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber)
Two Zeeland Girls in Zandvoort (Louis H. Chrispijn)
The Student of Prague (Paul Wegener and Stellan Rye)
The Film Prima-Donna (Urban Gad)
The Derby (Williamson Kinematograph Company)
Lea and the Ball of Yarn (Cines)
Le singe de Pétronille (Romeo Bosetti and Georges Rémond)
Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life (Mack Sennett)
Protea (Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
Raja Harishchandra (Dadasaheb Phalke)
A Trip Through Setomaa (Johannes Pääsuke)
Amsterdam, journaalonderwerpen (Kinematograaf Pathé Frères Nederland)
Arthème sorcier (Ernest Servaès)
A Little Hero (George Nichols)
Matrimony’s Speed Limit (Alice Guy-Blaché)
Max n'aime pas les chats (Max Linder)
Polycarpe commis d’architecte (Ernest Servaès)
An American in the Making (Carl Gregory)
Polidor and the Cat (Ferdinand Guillaume)
A Timely Interception (D.W. Griffith)

[lineuphere]

1. L'enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret)
The Insects' Christmas (Wladyslaw Starewicz)
Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström)
Germinal (Albert Capellani)
Tiny Tim and the Adventures of His Elephant (Louis Feuillade)
How Men Propose (Lois Weber)
Atlantis (August Blom)
Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgeni Bauer)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (Marcel Perez, Luigi Maggi)
The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini, Eleuterio Rodolfi)
Nursery Favorites (Allen Ramsey)
Tragic Error (Louis Feuillade)
Fantômas: Juve Against Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed (Louis Feuillade)
Granddad (Jay Hunt)
Wife of His Choice (Max Linder)
The Little House in Kolomna (Pyotr Chardynin)
The Dragonfly and the Ant (Wladyslaw Starewicz)
The Student of Prague (Paul Wegener and Stellan Rye)
Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine (Louis Feuillade)

[Lencho of the Apes]

And this thing also will end in about two hours. Late submissions will still be processed, up to a certain point...

[Lencho of the Apes]

Let there be no more doing!

But if new ballots are posted in the next two hours or so, I'll be able to squeeze those in at the end.

[Lencho of the Apes]

The thing, as she is did...

1
Suspense (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber)

2
Germinal

3
Ingeborg Holm - Sjostrom
Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgeni Bauer)

5
L'enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret)

6
Erreur Tragique - Feuillade
6 Fantomas
The Student of Prague (Paul Wegener and Stellan Rye)
Two Zeeland Girls in Zandvoort (Louis H. Chrispijn)

10
Las extraordinarias aventuras de Saturnino Farandola
The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini, Eleuterio Rodolfi)

12
Atlantis - August Blom
Drama On The Volga - Nikolai Larin
The Film Prima-Donna (Urban Gad)
Traffic In Souls -

16 - 28
Au pays des lits clos ( Maurice Mariaud)
Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant (Louis Feuillade)
The Dragonfly and the Ant (Wladyslaw Starewicz)
From Physiology of a Great Pond Snail Embryo (Ondřej Schrutz)
How Men Propose (Lois Weber)
The Insects' Christmas (Wladyslaw Starewicz)
The Life Of Richard wagner - Carl Froelich
Mothering Heart
Protea (Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
The Right To Exist (Joseph Delmont)
The Rocks and Caves of Baume
Tangokonigen
Tannhauser - Lucius Henderson


NOTE: Fantomas got two votes for the whole series as a unit and 4-4-3 votes for the three installments that came out in 1913. If r. C or anybody posts lists elsewhere, and they want to list them separately or are forced to...Juve Contra F and Le mort qui tue go in what is now 6th place and the Guillotine one goes in what is now 10th place. All the numbers from 10 to the bottom will be +1 as a result of that alteration. (28 will be +2)