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Tag Archives: 1910s
Three Short Films
For today, I’ve got another triplet of short films to review. All three shorts are in black and white, but in other respects, there’s an odd man out in a couple of ways. Two of the films are silents, but … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900s, 1910s, 1940s, 2 Stars, 3 Stars, 4 Stars, Chester Conklin, Corner on Wheat, D.W. Griffith, Frank Powell, Keystone Kops, Larry Fine, Love Speed and Thrills, Mark Swain, Minta Durfee, Moe Howard, movies, Shemp Howard, short films, silent films, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Three Stooges
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Three Short Films
For today, another installment of short films. This time I’m looking at three shorts, and though they are all silent films, they aren’t all from the same era. In fact, there’s almost a hundred years between the oldest and the … Continue reading
Five Short Films
For today, I have another slew of short films to review. This time I’m tackling five of them at once, largely because a few of them are particularly short — though no less notable for that. There are two live-action … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 1920s, 1940s, 3 Stars, 4 Stars, Balloonatic, Bud Fisher, Buster Keaton, Case of the Screaming Bishop, Charles R. Bowers, Dot Farley, Edward F. Cline, Fatty Joins the Force, John McLeish, movies, Mutt and Jeff, Phyllis Haver, reviews, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Screen Gems Phantasies, short films, silent films, Slick Sleuths, Symphonie Diagonale, Viking Eggeling
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Brideless Groom / A Trip to the Moon / The Rounders
Got an assortment of short films to cover today. Rather than give each of them individual full-length reviews — I find it hard to justify giving a 20-minute film an entire day to itself — I thought I would cover … Continue reading
The Rink
Maybe I’ve seen too many of Charlie Chaplin’s short films already, or maybe just too many of them in the relatively brief span of time I’ve been writing on this blog. On a technical level, they are all very well … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 3 Stars, Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, movies, reviews, Rink, short films, silent films
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Frankenstein (1910)
Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. The mad scientist and his monster have become icons, used and referenced in literature and film and television ever since. And in the case of film, that goes back nearly all the way to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 3 Stars, Augustus Phillips, Charles Ogle, Frankenstein, J. Searle Dawley, Mary Fuller, movies, reviews, short films, silent films, Thomas Edison
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The Pawnshop
The Pawnshop is another of Charlie Chaplin’s short, silent films. Released in 1916, it also features frequent co-stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell, along with Henry Bergman and John Rand. As one might guess from the title, it takes place … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 3 Stars, Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, James T. Kelley, John Rand, movies, Pawnshop, reviews, short films, silent films
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The Charlie Chaplin Festival
The Charlie Chaplin Festival was released in 1938, and as the name implies, it isn’t so much a film as it is a collection of four of Chaplin’s short films from 1917. The four short films included are The Immigrant, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 3 Stars, Adventurer, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin Festival, Cure, Easy Street, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Immigrant, Little Tramp, movies, reviews, short films, silent films
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Shoulder Arms
How long have filmmakers been blending the genres of war movies and comedies? Released in 1918, just shortly before the end of the first World War, Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms is possibly the first example; certainly it’s one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 3 Stars, Albert Austin, Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, movies, reviews, Shoulder Arms, silent films, Syd Chaplin
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