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Charlie Chaplin takes
on opera with his unique perspective of Bizet’s classic opera, Carmen. Silent.
Black and white. 1925.
Each volume contains two films starring Buster Keaton. Each
volume is ONLY AVAILABLE ON DVD.
Vol 1: College - Buster tries out for every team on
campus to impress a girl; Steam Boat Bill Jr - Buster tries his hand at being a
riverboat captain
This tape contains
three of Buster Keaton’s most famous shorts. The first one is The Electric
House. Buster switches diplomas with an electrical engineer after
graduation to get a job. The engineer finds out, and sabotages everything that
Buster did. In The Boat, Buster builds a nice yacht for his family. Too
bad he didn’t measure the doorway first. And in The Paleface, Buster is
inducted into a tribe of Native Americans. He then helps to save their
reservation from land barons that are out to steal it. Black and white, various
years.
This is a collection
of three silent Chaplin shorts, all in Black and White. Included are: The
Tramp, A Night At The Show, and Caught In A Cabaret. Various years.
This second
collection features two more shorts staring everybody’s favorite tramp. The
first short is The Floorwalker, which has Charlie trading places with a
salesman that just robbed the store. The second short is The Rink, which has
Charlie taking advantage of the new (then, not now) craze, roller skating. Yes,
the tramp on wheels. Various years.
One of Buster Keaton's best films. He plays a young,
freshman bookworm that tries out for every team in school in order to impress
his girlfriend. The "Soda Jerk" scene was re‑enacted in
"The Buster Keaton Story." There are plenty of other classic Keaton
stunts as well. 1927.
John Barrymore set the standard for Jekyll and Hyde in this
1920 silent classic.
This is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 movie of a woman that wants to leave her alcoholic husband for her artist boyfriend. Based on a play by Noel Coward. Available on DVD.
Each volume contains 10 silent cartoons featuring Felix The
Cat. All are in black & white, and have music. Some also feature sound
effects. Each volume is ONLY AVAILABLE ON DVD.
Vol 1: All Puzzled; April Maze; Arabiantics;
Astronomous; False Vases; Felix Dopes It Out; Futuritzy; One Good Man; Outdore
Indore; Two Lip Time
Vol 2: The Cold Rush; Felix Doubles For Darwin; Felix
Finds Out; Felix Gets The Can; Felix Goes West; Felix In Hollywood; Forty
Winks; Skulls And Sculls; Felix Trifles With Time; Felix Woos Whoopee
Buster Keaton stars as a Southern engineer (the kind that
operates a train) that is determined to join the army at any cost. 1927. Available
on VCD & DVD.
The 1925 Charlie
Chaplin classic. This is the story of
one man's struggle from rags to riches in the arctic wilderness of Alaska. Features his "Dance of the Rolls",
and his pantomime shoe eating bit.
This 1920 German film
is a great example of movie as art. It features incredibly well crafted sets
and well-arranged camera angles that give this film a unique feel. It is
obvious that this film had inspired the 1931 Frankenstein. There is also a
Romeo and Juliet style sub plot that may actually feature the first instance of
implied sexual innuendo. Very tame for the time (the couple is asleep on the
same bed, his head on her stomach), but for then, potentially controversial.
Lon Chaney stars as The Hunchback in this 1923 silent
epic. Chaney’s make up in this picture may be the only time that a costume over
shadowed the scenery.
Charlie Chaplin travels from Europe to America to start a new
life. 1917.
This is the original
silent classic by Fritz Lang. Many people say that the story is a metaphor
about the evils of a class society. Others say it’s about the evils of
depending too much on technology. Either way, it’s a classic film from the
early days of cinematography.
Stan Laurel stars in this early silent comedy about a
man’s misadventures in the desert.
Nosferatu ‑ AKA ‑ Eine Symphonie des Grauens; A Symphony of Terror; A Symphony of Horror; The Vampire
This 1922 classic
defines the essence of Bram Stoker's book Dracula beautifully.
This movie is second only to the 1992 movie, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Some great
effects and make up (I don't think Lon Chaney SR could have done better) for
the era, too. Watch for Dracula's raising from the coffin scene, aboard the
ship. The name Dracula was only seen
once in the film, due to a copyright problem with Bram's widow (This was the
first movie based on the book). Filmed in Bavaria, but has English screen
cards. Also known as Eine Symphonie des Grauens, Nosferatu: A Symphony in
Terror, Nosferatu: A Symphony in Horror. It is the same film, without any
footage added or removed.
This title has three of the original silent Hal Roach
Our Gang shorts. Included are The Fourth Alarm; Official Officers; Spook
Spoofing. Various years.
This is the original,
1925 silent classic featuring Lon Chaney. For those unfamiliar with the
movie, novel or musical, the Phantom is a composer that is driven insane by his
hideous looks (the result of an accident). He decides to dwell in the abandoned
touchier chambers beneath the opera house, and force a young prima donna to
become his bride. This is the long version of the film (approximately 106
minutes) and includes the original red tainted frames in select scenes.
There are four early
animated shorts on this volume. The first is Felix the Actor, featuring Felix
the Cat. The second short is Brontosaurus, featuring a dinosaur that
needs to impress his friends. The third short is Fish Market, which
again stars Felix the Cat. The volume wraps up with Flir’s Circus,
which is a circus unlike any you’ve ever seen. At least in real life.
Charlie Chaplin plays a big city con man trying to milk a
young farm girl out of her money. 1914.
Stan Laurel stars as a man that inherited property in
the “Wild West.” The question is, can he claim it, or will his two desperado
cousins?
This is the 1925 silent version of L. Frank Baum’s classic story. It stars Larry Semon as the Scarecrow and Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodsman. The film also stars Dorothy Dwan, Bryant Washburn, Charles Murray, Josef Swickard, and Virginia Pearson.
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