silent films that show people watching film?

[Bob Birchard]

"Pop Tuttle's Movie Queen" (1922) is a great short that takes place in a movie theater. There is also a Hal Roach-Snub Pollard short that take place in movie theater, but I can't recall the title at the moment.

Another, not a silent, that has a great sequence of watching silent movies in a theater is "One Foot In Heaven" (Warner Bros., 1941), in which a movie-denigrating preacher is won over to the medium by watching a William S. Hart film. The film seems to be little known, today, but it has been constantly excerpted through the years for its scenes of a nickelodeon interior and a piano player accompanying films.

[silentfilm]

Bob, are you thinking of Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) with Snub Pollard as the projectionist at Harold Lloyd's movie theater?

[FrankFay]

Another, not a silent, that has a great sequence of watching silent movies in a theater is "One Foot In Heaven" (Warner Bros., 1941), in which a movie-denigrating preacher is won over to the medium by watching a William S. Hart film. The film seems to be little known, today, but it has been constantly excerpted through the years for its scenes of a nickelodeon interior and a piano player accompanying films.

That is a fine movie, a religious picture that wasn't overwhelmingly pious, and a sentimental film that doesn't drip with treacle. Excellent cast.

[Bob Birchard]

Bob, are you thinking of Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) with Snub Pollard as the projectionist at Harold Lloyd's movie theater?

No, the one I'm thinking of is a Snub solo one-reeler from the early 1920s/

[Richard M Roberts]

Bob, are you thinking of Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) with Snub Pollard as the projectionist at Harold Lloyd's movie theater?

No, he's thinking of THE MOVIES (1922), which can be seen in the title sequence of Robert Youngson's DAYS OF THRILLS AND LAUGHTER (1961).



RICHARD M ROBERTS

[Arndt]

I don't know whether anybody has mentioned the British comedy EAST IS EAST from 1917 before. Here East End heroine Vicky and her beau visit a pictcher 'ouse. As it is dark in there the screen remains black, with only the intertitles showing. Wot an arf!

[Bob Birchard]

Another silent that has a scene in a screening room is "A Girl's Folly" (World, 1917)

[Beth C-D]

I don't know whether anybody has mentioned the British comedy EAST IS EAST from 1917 before. Here East End heroine Vicky and her beau visit a pictcher 'ouse. As it is dark in there the screen remains black, with only the intertitles showing. Wot an arf!

That's a new one. Thanks Arndt. I recently had the pleasure of watching an excerpt of an early Iranian film called Mr. Haji, The Movie Actor (Haji Aqa, Aktor-e Sinema, 1933) in which the straight-laced Mr. Haji is scandalized that his daughter wants to be a movie star because he disapproves of the movies. He is finally won over when he is shown a film of himself that was filmed in secret, I think by his daughter's beau. Hamid Naficy writes about it in the first volume of his book A Social History of Iranian Cinema.

[Spiny Norman]

Una tragedia al cinematografo (1913)

[Rick Lanham]

It's not people, but there is The Cameraman's Revenge (1912).

Milestone's copy of it is on YouTube:

Rick