1915 poll

[greennui]

oooh who are you mr dishy william hinckley?

I ended up googling him and it seems like he died in 1918, aged 23 of the Spanish flu.

Found this rabbit hole as a result: https://www.pinterest.se/silentfilmfans ... -too-soon/

[sally]

oooh who are you mr dishy william hinckley?

I ended up googling him and it seems like he died in 1918, aged 23 of the Spanish flu.

Found this rabbit hole as a result: https://www.pinterest.se/silentfilmfans ... -too-soon/

he was 20 in 1915? (and everyone says cinema never felt the effects of the 1918 flu, pah!) so dammit, not only am i now again a necro-paedophile, but also that adds enough tragic career-cut-short glamour to that little film to make it one of those year poll films i get excited about for completely non-cinematic reasons (still huzzah-ing the 1st use of film as uk evidence with random elephants from 1935, and the never-died frank powell during the 1910 poll, hey he's 1915 too!)

[sally]

can anyone get hold of wauer's der tunnel? it was on youtube but got pulled by filmmuseum munchen who showed it for one week and now you can't see it anywhere. geniuses. it looked good too

[niminy-piminy]

can anyone get hold of wauer's der tunnel?

i have it. didn't watch it yet. soon in Res. (hopefully)

[greennui]

lol google has got Frank Powell down as 143 years old, still going strong.

I changed the year of release for this one as most sources, Eye for an example has got it down as a 1915 film:

https://letterboxd.com/film/dutch-types/

[sally]

bless you jiri. i'm back in 1915 in a big way now

also i have wauer's so rächt sich die sonne if anyone wants it (nice tinting)

say what you like about the garbling that you can't hear anyway, but danish women are winning the fashion stakes so far - didn't get a screenshot but the wife in the indian idol (as far as i can tell some protest film about cultural appropriation) was wearing some top notch frocks

has anyone got any danish damsels in colour photos from this period? i bet they were (too-geometric) rainbows

[niminy-piminy]

can anyone get hold of wauer's der tunnel?

i have it. didn't watch it yet. soon in Res. (hopefully)

it's there.

[sally]

thanks jiri!

haven't seen anything amazing yet (so far 1915 is no 1914, maybe they were too busy being killed) but am keeping my italian powder dry

this - mysteries of london - was complete bobbins, but oh to see some home (ish, london is all my grandparents places) and the finger precisely there, all pointed backwards nostalgia, as if to say....in exactly 100 years from now, in that same building, is george osborne in all his glorious pomp. sigh

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

I changed the year of release for this one as most sources, Eye for an example has got it down as a 1915 film:

https://letterboxd.com/film/dutch-types/

Thanks, I'll add that to my '15 ballot. (Still 1910 on IMDB, but I agree, I trust EYE over IMDB)

[niminy-piminy]

THE (transatlantic vacuum hyperloop) TUNNEL is basically a Musk story.
so, i started to play Grimes as a soundtrack...

See you on a dark night (ooh, ah)
See you on a dark night (ooh, ah) (la, la, la, la, la)
See you on a dark night
See you on a dark night

[niminy-piminy]

https://youtu.be/mXPKQ-lzW0c

[greennui]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPiceGku-o

[sally]

i knew i'd seen some of that before!

https://vimeo.com/427821508

[greennui]

i knew i'd seen some of that before!

https://vimeo.com/427821508

I watched that and was gonna tick it off at lboxd but noticed it wasn't on there, now it is though.

https://letterboxd.com/film/sunken-films/

[Lencho of the Apes]

My God, Perret's Page Du Gloire looks like 1928. That lighting, those textures! Thanks much, Green, for that...recommendation.

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[greennui]

I think my favourite thing about it was the floating seeds in the wind in the nature shots.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Seems like I noticed the same thing and delighted in it, but I thought "oh, look, even butterflies!"(in long-shot...)

[greennui]

Had to think about it for awhile, 'I recognize those things but what are they really'.

Anway, here's old French artists caught on film in 1915. The last one seems to be an early paparazzi snippet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJE4QUNgaeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcGTqxsIUjM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KET94NlM7Ys

[Lencho of the Apes]

Enhver/Everyman - Vilhelm Gluckstadt, Denmark

Could it be... Satan?

More endgame rec.s tomorrow.

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[Lencho of the Apes]

Who Pays? Toil And Tyranny
Episode 12 of a serial, apparently the only one surviving -- and it's straight-up pinko agitprop. Crudely, stupidly melodramatic, in the GMW Reynolds/Dickens/Griffith tradition... but it's so pro-labor I can't help but love it a little.

The Captive - de Mille
Cecil giving us Balkan peasants n farm life in the Catalina foothills. Peak gorgeousness resto! Marauding Turks are all in a uproar; they overrun a farm and get even more riotous when they discover a woman, a boy and a sheep-- surely that wasn't deliberate. Oh, wait -- it should be a melon instead of a sheep,for the joke I was aiming at. Never mind.

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[rischka]

page du gloire really was great and will appear in my list, thanks greennui! hard to concentrate on films at the moment but i'm trying to get one in every few days



shame about dumb time code

[greennui]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPiceGku-o

Added this one to
https://letterboxd.com/film/ss-lusitani ... st-voyage/

Ended up watching this video which I found kinda transfixing and unnerving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mngm1fvZ1M

[Angel]

Very good:
Assunta Spina
Civilization
Les vampires
The Birth of a Nation
The Captive
The Cheat
The Golden Chance
The Italian
The Regeneration

Good:
Alias Jimmy Valentine
Carmen
Deti veka (Children of the Age)
Evangeliemandens liv (The Candle and the Moth)
Filibus
Posle smerti (After Death)
Une page de gloire (A Page of Glory)
Young Romance

Shorts:
Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Gryozy (Daydreams)
The Bank

To see before the deadline:
Havsgamar

Wanted:
The Lamb

[greennui]

Final liszt.

1. After Death (Yevgeni Bauer)
A Page of Glory (Léonce Perret)
S.S. Lusitania Leaves New York City on Last Voyage
The Happiness of Eternal Night (Yevgeni Bauer)
Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
Daydreams (Yevgeni Bauer)
Dutch Types
Picturesque Scenes on the Principal Waterways
The Magic Brew (Victor Bergdahl)
Portrait (Wladyslaw Starewicz)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

I'll just make a vow for a couple of views

Didn't get to any, as my October itch for Bela Lugosi intervened. Ah well, a measly final '15 list:

1. Two Knights of Vaudeville (Historical Feature Film Company–Ebony Film Company)
Dutch Types (Gaumont)
Auntie’s Portrait (George D. Baker)
Billy the Bear Tamer (Lee Beggs)
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts (George D. Baker)
The Dust of Egypt (George D. Baker) [Surviving Fragment]
Regeneration (Raoul Walsh)

[brian d]

and i watched nothing for this year too busy with horror movies. any other month and i probably would have gotten on it better.

after death (bauer)
hypocrites (weber)
les vampires (feuillade)
the undesirable (curtiz)
a fool there was (powell)

[sally]

argh some bastard cut my internet cable last week so i haven't been able to stream ANYTHING!!! argh! (hilaaariously the same day as i had amused my lunch hour with an online lecture about the theoretical physical limits of optical fiber)

as such, and since i had such plans, i'll be submitting my ballot (possibly just to myself via air and shouting) at the end of november well after this poll ends but i don't care, i'm not going to short change this year just because of some snippy moron, sorry lencho.

[Lencho of the Apes]

I wish you would post your ballot, even if it's unfinished and doesn't reflect anything you watch in Nov., just because silent years are always woeful underrepresented and I'm not likely to have more than 6-8 ballots to work from.November's year of 'study" is one you were likely to sit out on, so plenty of time for you to catch up on the 15s.

[sally]

fie, when you haven't watched silent movies for ages and they all suddenly seem like modern, hello the italian. why doesn't anyone talk about thomas ince more? he had his finger in a lot of interesting pies. see also: the coward (i ♥ the quivering boy again). did he do something bad?

okay i'll post a ballot, even if it is instantly out of date and totally inadequate.

[Lencho of the Apes]

ince

I woinder myself. His 1915s are a lot more interesting to me than the de Milles. Can't explain the critical silence.