Silent Movie GIFs

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I like to watch silent movies, and then make gifs from them. Created by @dmchoull

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Sangue blu (1914) was directed by Nino Oxilia, who was killed by an Austrian shell while serving in the Italian army in 1917. Most of his films are now lost

The Student of Prague (1913) is one of a handful of films directed by Stellan Rye, who died the next year as a prisoner of war in France

Director F.W. Murnau was born 135 years ago today, on Dec. 28, 1888

Alice in Wonderland (1915)

KoKo's Earth Control (1928), directed by Dave Fleischer

Mary Pickford, one of the silent era's biggest stars, was born 133 years ago today in Toronto

Alice in Wonderland (1915)

"The close-up is the soul of cinema." - director Jean Epstein (shots from Finis Terræ 1929)

The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) was a ground-breaking piece of animation. Creator Winsor McCay said it took him eight weeks of work to produce eight second of animation

Douglas Fairbanks's The Black Pirate (1926) was one of the first movies shot entirely in Technicolor

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Movies that take place at roughly the same time

Scenes from Helena, a 1924 German silent epic about the Trojan War

Silent movies did some pretty wild things with trains

Maciste in Hell (1925) was the first movie Federico Fellini could remember watching in a cinema

One of the great tracking shots of the silent era, from F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927)

Georges Méliès was born 163 years ago today, on December 8, 1861

For decades Hard Luck (1921) was Buster Keaton's only major lost film. It was reconstructed in 1987, but the ending was still missing. That footage, seen here, was later found in a Russian archive and added in

Buster Keaton was born 128 years ago today, on October 4, 1895

In 1927, Science and Invention magazine offered a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Metropolis

The influence of Metropolis

The Fall of Troy (1911) contains one of cinema's first depictions of the story of the Trojan Horse

In 1911, Milano Films produced one of the first movie adaptations of The Odyssey

It's hard to believe that Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. is now 100 years old. This sequence is still astonishing a century later

More than 75 per cent of films made during the silent era are now lost. Here are fragments from a few of them

Cabiria (1914) opens with a pretty impressive depiction of Mount Etna erupting

No one in a silent comedy ever lights their cigarette in a normal way

Battleship Potemkin was released 100 years ago today, on Dec. 21, 1925

Buster Keaton, human cartoon character

A century of Sherlock Holmes in cinema