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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

1 day ago

F. W. Murnau was born 130 years ago today. Probably the greatest director to work exclusively in silent cinema (The Last Laugh (1924)

Murnau

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

3 days ago

One of Buster Keaton's most baffling stunts, from Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Keaton

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

6 days ago

The Insects’ Christmas (1913) is a short film by Polish-Russian stop-motion animation pioneer Ladislas Starevich

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Posted by

u/coolAFmusic

7 days ago

Rear projection in Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

cool shots

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Posted by

u/ladaman

8 days ago

A fly harasses a drawing (and the cartoonist) In The Tantalizing Fly (1919), by Max Fleischer

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Charlie Chaplin having a dessert in City Lights, 1931

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Charlie Chaplin eating spaghetti while intoxicated in City Lights, 1931

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Posted by

u/ladaman

9 days ago

Lillian Gish and Donald Crisp in The Closet scene (Broken Blossoms, 1919)

Griffith

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

9 days ago

Douglas Fairbanks chasing a runaway car in His Picture in the Papers (1916)

Fairbanks

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Posted by

u/mchoul

10 days ago

Josephine Baker dancing in La revue des revues (1927)

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

12 days ago

With a film career starting in 1905, Max Linder was one of cinema's first comedy stars. (Max Learns to Skate 1907)

Linder

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Posted by

u/ladaman

13 days ago

Marie Dressler thinks her daughter Marion Davies is crazy in The Patsy (1928).

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

14 days ago

Douglas Fairbanks walking on the ceiling in When the Clouds Roll By (1919)

Fairbanks

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

16 days ago

Buster Keaton gets married in The Scarecrow (1920)

Keaton

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Posted by

u/A_Rest

17 days ago

Ramon Novarro in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ when he realizes he'll be going back to being a galley slave on a Roman ship

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Posted by

u/CaptainGibb

17 days ago

Little girl tying fallen leaves back to the trees with string because she heard the doctor say her sister would die when the last leaf fell. Alice Guy Blache's Falling Leaves (1912)

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Posted by

u/ladaman

18 days ago

Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland in Greed (1924)

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Brilliant match cut in Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou (1929) [Warning: mild gore]

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Posted by

u/CaptainGibb

18 days ago

Fatty Arbuckle sneakily chloroforming a girl to kiss her in His Wedding Night (1917)

Arbuckle

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Posted by

u/silentmoviegif

19 days ago

Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936)

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

21 days ago

Buster Keaton trying to be romantic in The Frozen North (1922)

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Posted by

u/ladaman

22 days ago

Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino in Beyond the rocks (1922)

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

23 days ago

Not a GIF, but here's a short clip of Buster Keaton talking about fellow silent film star William S. Hart and how he parodied him in The Frozen North

Keaton

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Posted by

u/ladaman

24 days ago

This scene from Menilmontant (1926) moves me to tears.

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Posted by

u/Auir2blaze

24 days ago

Disembarking from a ship in Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

Lang

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