I seem to remember that Andrew Sarris wrote that his Greek immigrant parents learned English by reading the titles in silent films.

This sounds intriguing (and also brings back memories of LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN) - is it available to rent at Netflix/Classic Flix?

Silents are a mystical world to me - once I hear dialogue, it seems to snap me out of that ethereal state..

That's really well expressed, that's exactly how I feel watching a good/great silent.

It's very hard to explain to anyone who isn't interested in them.

OK gang, I need suggestions/help. Do I watch SHORE LEAVE with Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill or SECRETS OF THE NIGHT (1924) with Zasu Pitts? Both Grapevine, and I've had both over a year. thanks.

It certainly looks "vintage" but since the words at the bottom ("Reproduction Verboten") are in German, I wonder how the seller is going to convince people that Buster actually signed it?

I like THE DYING SWAN. Could be considered a picture that wants to be a painting and agreat film for 1917 standards.

Agree, I liked DYING SWAN very much and found it very convincing, to the point where I found the ending actually upsetting. Didn't feel dated to me at all.

Thanks very much, that was hilarious/charming.

Much as I love Barrymore (and he was certainly born to play Ahab), THE SEA BEAST is the wildest mis-interpretation of a famous novel I've ever seen on film!

Oh...okay, thanks. Too bad, I'd love to see some of those, including very early Barrymore.

I've never ordered from this company, they seem to have a lot of rare films. Do the silents have musical accompaniment?

I thought I read somewhere (on this board?) that the happy ending was in the original "script?" in other words, a tragic ending to the film was never intended to be made?

Well, in fairness, Hulu is the only streaming service I know of that interrupts their presentations with commercials. I don't generally mind it with television shows, though it would annoy me with a silent film. Then again, the other services I've used don't do this.

I thought it was Helm too, surprised because I'm not usually so quick to recognize people.

I realize that the subject is being discussed at various places in this section and elsewhere, but I wonder if it would be useful to have a general thread for people to post/discuss any sources they have found for (legal) streaming of silent/obscure/early sound films. I've been very pleased with my ...

If that happens, then you might start seeing archival material from the major studios that's still under copyright start to pop up in streaming movie services. Since the archives have already done the "heavy lifting" for the preservation and digitization, it's just a matter of getting clearances fr...

I hate to dig up an old thread, but this one is too good not to comment on.

I've had an idea for a few years for a set that could be put together by someone like Kino, cooperating with Eastman, LOC and UCLA: "Film Lost".

I would definitely buy that one. It would be fascinating.

Congrats to the winners! I didn't exactly get a silent DVD present, but the next best thing, my sister brought the DVDs of METROPOLIS and LES VAMPIRES that Deep Discount sent to her address instead of mine...(because I'd ordered a Melies DVD for her once...)

Greed: "Let's go over and sit on the sewer."

They cut out seven hours of it and left that in? Remembering it getting a laugh at MOMA, unfortunately.

Merry Christmas from me as well!

(24 more minutes left in New York...) and Happy New Year.

I don't get the anti-GENERAL statements in this thread either, granted when it came out perhaps audiences were not used to seeing soldiers dying and an enormous real-life train wreck in a river in a "slapstick" film but that doesn't mean it isn't an absorbing film in its own right with many funny sc...

Hah hah hah....

But the episode in the stalled subway car is my favorite.

I agree on both Lucky Star and Chicago , but I wonder how many people have seen either of them. I had to go to Amazon UK to get a PAL version of Lucky Star to play on my hacked Jwin DVD player, and Chicago was only recently rediscovered after all. That said, I've bought it also and mean to lend it t...

Oh, so sad, I have spent innumerable hours laughing at the brilliant performances of Jack and Tony in The Odd Couple, which Channel 11 in New York thoughtfully re-ran for many years. I also recently saw Klugman in an episode of The Fugitive ("Everyone Has to Get Hit in the Mouth Sometime") which con...

The Brando/Sinatra snit was based on casting issues in Guys and Dolls. Was that because Brando, a non-singer if there ever was one, got the role of Sky Masterson which obviously should have gone to Sinatra? I've always been dumbfounded by that myself. By the way I'd have love to have seen George Bu...

Even I am willing to give the devil his due: in the only believable role I've ever seen him play, that of the back-woodsman in Coquette,

I haven't seen that film (or this one) but Brown is very good in The Last Flight.

A League of Their Own but still no Steamboat Bill, Jr. ????? Agggh, I meant to vote for Steamboat Bill, Jr. early this year but waited to think of 24 more films...maybe in January I will just submit it 25 times. I suppose Connoisseur is thinking of "Steamboat Willie" which I always thought must hav...

The Flickr Alley Melies Set and the Baby Peggy Set for me also, plus to fantasize,

A DVD release of "L'Inhumaine" which I saw part of years ago and would still like to see the end. It's online so I know it's still existing.

Great to hear how well she is doing!

Any chance of more of the films being released soon? It's great to hear of these discoveries, even if some of them are only fragments. Maybe on Fandor?

Update: Watched the bio last night via Roku/Fandor.

Excellent! And what a great use of stills to convey all the sadly missing films of Theda. I wonder what became of all the prints that were made...

I also wonder why TCM won't show this, I think it would be great for Sunday Night Silents.

Got to remember to catch this ep with Buster since I've also been watching METV - thanks. As I've mentioned elsewhere with regard to PERRY MASON, they seem to do a good job showing these classic shows without a lot of cuts. I watched an episode of THE FUGITIVE, which I do remember and think still ho...