1915 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1915 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1915 lists will be Monday, November 2nd at approximately 5 PM Pacific Time.

[flip]

haven't seen much from the year

La Folie du Docteur Tube (Abel Gance)

The Cheat (Cecil B DeMille)
Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
Mabel's Wilful Way (Roscoe Arbuckle)
The Champion (Charlie Chaplin)
Pool Sharks (Edwin Middleton)

[rischka]

les vampires
after death (bauer)
regeneration (walsh)
filibus (roncoroni)

[sally]

Yeah this is some shitty 2000+ poll

[sally]

pretty sure that ^ was my profile pic somewhere for ages

anyway it's bauers year

les vampires
het wrak van de noorzee (best north europe silent sea movie)
papà - nino oxilia
the captive
the golem
daydreams (cc the oval portrait, cc vertigo)
after death
the regeneration
max in monaco
a fool there was
hypocrites
filibus
maciste
the lily of belgium
i kronans kläder
the candle and the moth (but only with the russian ending)

at least my watchlist is only 80+ long for this eh

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

What I've seen and liked:

Two Knights of Vaudeville (Historical Feature Film Company–Ebony Film Company)
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 only]

Probably also Walsh's Regeneration, but I'd have to rewatch it.

Because my movie watching has dwindled, I'll just make a vow for a couple of views: Fanchon the Cricket, and Filibus (was holding out for the big screen, but I have no idea when my local silent film fest is coming back).

[sally]

pretty sure when i watched it it was called regeneration, but now everywhere it's THE regeneration? not a fan of the the

[niminy-piminy]

1915... that sleazy dirty year!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218277/
https://worddisk.com/wiki/A_Free_Ride/
and the year when directors started to use nicknames.
"A Wise Guy" in this particular case.

[sally]

have actually seen that

[greennui]

Les Vampires

Can't seem to find any interesting actuality/experimental films from this year to watch. Might see if Eye has got something,

[rischka]

have actually seen that

now i've actually seen it too. it won't make my ballot. thx for your extensive list to check out

greennui i hope it's ok if i'm pronouncing your spooky name 'halloweenie' in my head

[Curtis, baby]

1. Young Romance (George Melford, 1915)
"Mr. 'Silent' Haskins" (William S. Hart, 1915)
Regeneration (Raoul Walsh, 1915)

[Holymanm]

You haven’t watched any films released in 1915.

[greennui]

have actually seen that

now i've actually seen it too. it won't make my ballot. thx for your extensive list to check out

greennui i hope it's ok if i'm pronouncing your spooky name 'halloweenie' in my head

That's okay, I'm still not even sure if 'greennui' is pronounceable.

[sally]

have actually seen that

now i've actually seen it too. it won't make my ballot. thx for your extensive list to check out

LOL, it's interesting as a social document, also the casual peeing. (oh and aside, i've always been comfortable with it being green wee) think it appeared on smz once to some hurrah. and then i went on an early porn spree, and didn't really learn much apart from how wonky some things can be

not sure i'd recommend everything i listed, altho everyone should watch a fool there was, if only cuz there's so few theda bara films remaining. and papa is a nice intense short

just watched the cheat, altho looks like everyone else in the world already has, how has a silent film clocked over 2k views on letterboxd?

[brian d]

have actually seen that

now i've actually seen it too. it won't make my ballot. thx for your extensive list to check out

greennui i hope it's ok if i'm pronouncing your spooky name 'halloweenie' in my head

That's okay, I'm still not even sure if 'greennui' is pronounceable.

haha, if you had any idea how long i've been trying to figure out how to say it.

[brian d]

haven't seen much, but these will end up on there:
after death (bauer)
les vampires (feuillade)
the undesirable (curtiz)
hypocrites (weber)
a fool there was (powell)

to watch:
hopefully lots, but i don't know what yet

[sally]

Can't seem to find any interesting actuality/experimental films from this year to watch. Might see if Eye has got something,

well if you find any, post here please!

there's some dutch travelogue things
holland in colour
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/fi ... en-klompen

and

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

and some on the bfi player which i'm never sure if anyone else can access

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 915-online
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 915-online

also i grew up in sussex so:
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 915-online

[niminy-piminy]

i'm never sure if anyone else can access

Location not authorised
BFI Player films cannot be played outside of the UK
Error code: CLIENT_GEO

[greennui]

have actually seen that

now i've actually seen it too. it won't make my ballot. thx for your extensive list to check out

greennui i hope it's ok if i'm pronouncing your spooky name 'halloweenie' in my head

That's okay, I'm still not even sure if 'greennui' is pronounceable.

haha, if you had any idea how long i've been trying to figure out how to say it.

lol, green ennui is basically me describing Days of Being Wild and why I liked it with two words. Slammed the two words together and voilá, 'hey, that kinda looks okay, and Green is my other possible surname so letsgowithit'

[sally]

i'm never sure if anyone else can access

Location not authorised
BFI Player films cannot be played outside of the UK
Error code: CLIENT_GEO

[niminy-piminy]

seems like i have seen so far only...
THE MADNESS OF DR. TUBE
HYPOCRITES
A FOOL THERE WAS
A FREE RIDE
and now when i click to watch THE TOOTH DEVIL i see toothpaste's cum on the face of the devil.
what was wrong with 1915?
did ppl with the outbreak of WW1 got completely uninhibited and had lost all scruples and sanity?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178114/

https://youtu.be/OYgusDBidl4

[sally]

more devil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Sa5EIJVsQ

[sally]

and now when i click to watch THE TOOTH DEVIL i see toothpaste's cum on the face of the devil.
what was wrong with 1915?
did ppl with the outbreak of WW1 got completely uninhibited and had lost all scruples and sanity?

that was more porn than the actual porn

[greennui]

Yeah, BFI doesn't seem to work outside the UK. I remember trying to circumvent it in order to watch this one: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 920-online but no luck.

Some short and sweet ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxg8NxAdoHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhR0Q3yyjLs

[niminy-piminy]

more devil

imdb: The first Swedish animated film.

start at full throttle! first step and immediately a leap into the inebriation and insanity.

[sally]

i'm totally back in my comfort zone now.

aside from depraved perversion, why are there so many 1910's movies about female spies? was there a massive pre ww1 scandal that i'm not googling correctly?

this is at least the 4th italian one ive seen

diana, l'affascinatrice



so the story is virtually non-existent and due to missing footage the ending is....abrubt. and the intertitles make things make less sense than if they weren't there. but god this-era italian movies are so gorgeous (blah blah oh demille owned the lighting i don't think) and forever hooray for the divas. he never stood a chance

[niminy-piminy]

female spies

Proctor argues that women engaged in crucial intelligence work in Britain and espionage on the continent. This assertion contradicts the general view held by most male operatives at the time and the general public, then and now, that only a few women participated in secret warfare, and they did so largely as beings dominated by their sexuality; they have been represented by victims, such as Edith Cavell, or seductresses on the lines of Mata Hari.

To discuss these issues, Proctor begins her book by setting forth the context for secret work in British history as a way of explaining the novelty of the professionalization of such activity during World War I. She then describes the crucial contributions of women in hidden intelligence work in London, especially as postal censors. She demonstrates that female participation in espionage on the continent was extensive, too, illustrated by the story of La Dame Blanche, an organization that gathered information in Belgium and France for the Allies. Once Proctor establishes the essential, if not famous, work of women, she discusses the question of why these contributions have been ignored and why the sexualized images of female spies have become so popular instead. The traditional understanding of women as emotional and dangerous creatures colored the understanding and memory of women's roles as spies.

Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. By Tammy M. Proctor. New York: New York University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8147-6693-5

[oscarwerner]

The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)-evil masterpiece
Les vampires (Louis Feuillade)
The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille )
and some Charlie Chaplin films:) Seems this is all i have seen from this year.....

[sally]

female spies

Proctor argues that women engaged in crucial intelligence work in Britain and espionage on the continent. This assertion contradicts the general view held by most male operatives at the time and the general public, then and now, that only a few women participated in secret warfare, and they did so largely as beings dominated by their sexuality; they have been represented by victims, such as Edith Cavell, or seductresses on the lines of Mata Hari.

To discuss these issues, Proctor begins her book by setting forth the context for secret work in British history as a way of explaining the novelty of the professionalization of such activity during World War I. She then describes the crucial contributions of women in hidden intelligence work in London, especially as postal censors. She demonstrates that female participation in espionage on the continent was extensive, too, illustrated by the story of La Dame Blanche, an organization that gathered information in Belgium and France for the Allies. Once Proctor establishes the essential, if not famous, work of women, she discusses the question of why these contributions have been ignored and why the sexualized images of female spies have become so popular instead. The traditional understanding of women as emotional and dangerous creatures colored the understanding and memory of women's roles as spies.

Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. By Tammy M. Proctor. New York: New York University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8147-6693-5

ah so just your general masculine neuroticism then, i just wondered if there was a specific case it was congealing around...daughter of naval/military officer shamed by father losing secret plans and turns spy to retrieve them seems to be a common theme, tho not in diana