Silent films

Silent and Pre-Code Horror | Carole Lombard in a promotional image for the 1933 pre-Code horror drama SUPERNATURAL. The film was directed by Victor Halperin, whose… | Instagram

Camille 1921 starring Rudolph Valentino and Alla Nazimova.

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Schatten (Warning Shadows)

I’ve been having some fun lately using GIFs from silent movies as metaphors for teaching life. Some are hits, some are misses. I’ll keep adding more to this list. I’d encou…

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)

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He’s a naïve Berlin cop. She’s a streetwise thief. Yup. Romance. But we’re in this for the Weimar gutter glamor and this film delivers in spades. One of the last great silent films to come out of t…

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Before green screens and CGI, there were crafty camera angles, matte paintings, and in-camera effects. A series of GIFs originally posted by Redditor Auir2blaze (first spotted on Open Culture) reveal the tricks of the trade in behind-the-scenes…

The mystic 1925

I ♡ Vintage Photos

Check out these silent movie title cards were created as movie theater etiquette notes, reminders and announcements that preceded a film that really are snapshots in time.