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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Alice in Wonderland (1915)

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

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

Mary Pickford was born 134 years ago today, on April 8, 1892

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

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

Part 2 of movies that take place at roughly the same time

The battle scenes for Intolerance (1916) got so out of control that after one day of filming, 67 extras required medical treatment

The "Teddy" Bears (1907)

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Movies that take place at roughly the same time

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

Silent movies did some pretty wild things with trains

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

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

The influence of Metropolis

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

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

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

Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895

Buster Keaton, human cartoon character

Harold Lloyd was born 133 years ago, on April 20, 1893

Shots from silent films that were inspired by paintings

Buster Keaton said this gag from Hard Luck (1921) got some of the biggest laughs of his career. For years the ending was believed missing before being rediscovered in a Russian archive print

Charlie Chaplin was born 137 years ago today, on April 16th, 1889

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was released 100 years ago today, on Dec. 30, 1925. It would go on to be one of the highest-grossing movies of the silent era

Harold Lloyd was born 130 years ago today, on April 20, 1893