These camermen were creative geniuses, to be sure. They were the first to work a concept never seen before, never dreamed of by most people, yet they are barely mentioned in early silent film studies. Wonderful to have these cameramen on film. That's one for the archives! Thank you for posting.
That was amazing! The hanging miniature was such a clever idea! The way they had cowboys really race the chariots for 5000$. All the ways they played with light. That was an interesting documentary.
Very impressive and very informative especially giving credit to the unsung heroes in the background camera and set inventions as the era progressed.i saw someone say that directors etc are lost to time like king vidor..there not the love and fandom is still there and ive seen previous forgotten stars have had there grave plots plaques replaced or given the maintenance and respect they deserve 🙏👌👏🏴🏴
*Buster Keaton ... I’d rather rewatch him and my Chaplin favs as well as our other respected pioneers of the genre repeatedly ad Infinitum* than most things modern. Unless they’re modern takes on older material for the sake of preservation. Like moving film to digital archives. So our ancestors don’t forget what *American Culture used to be with proper diction and enunciation and actual literacy and a non-monosyllabic repertoire without coming across as overly loquacious and accidentally snobbish. *Think Gore Vidal, (even Norman mailer) Dorothy kilgallen, Dick Cavette, Tom Snyder. Noam Chomsky. Etc etc. I don’t care about HD quality or FPS or nits or whatever jargon they use nowadays. America used to have a true grand culture worth respecting and appreciating. Not what it’s devolved into currently due to 1337 leet speak and autocorrect and near illiteracy condoned and actually made popular by our current generations ‘role models’ and what most of the world considers a sick joke of an educational system Sorry please excuse my outburst. I feel pretentious and almost like the very thing I’m complaining about now. I know many of you and us and our peers and acquaintances are perfectly admirable and I’m just making unfair broad oversimplifications and generalizations to prove a personal opinion passing it off at a factual point
The actor is Rudolph Valentino, the actress dancing with him is Beatrice Dominguez. The clip is from the movie "The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse" made in 1921. She died in 1921 at the age of 24 from peritonitis after her appendix ruptured. Oddly enough. Valentino died in 1926 at the age of 31 from the same thing.
I care more about films from 1922 than movies released in 2022!
These camermen were creative geniuses, to be sure. They were the first to work a concept never seen before, never dreamed of by most people, yet they are barely mentioned in early silent film studies. Wonderful to have these cameramen on film. That's one for the archives! Thank you for posting.
Once you get into these incredible silent films, you get hooked . They have so much integrity.
That was amazing! The hanging miniature was such a clever idea! The way they had cowboys really race the chariots for 5000$. All the ways they played with light. That was an interesting documentary.
Thank you for posting this great series!
Very impressive and very informative especially giving credit to the unsung heroes in the background camera and set inventions as the era progressed.i saw someone say that directors etc are lost to time like king vidor..there not the love and fandom is still there and ive seen previous forgotten stars have had there grave plots plaques replaced or given the maintenance and respect they deserve 🙏👌👏🏴🏴
"Way Down East" was another fine movie that we have on DVD.
Edison was such an ego maniac. The inventions that were created by his employees were always copyrighted "Edison".
Ingenious. Hollywood now has nothing on Hollywood then.
Hollywood is trash now.
Hollywood must have been so exciting during the 193O era, with the birth of sound movies.
Definitely tumultuous… It began and ended careers.
And more moral than today's degenerates there.
17:22 if you watch the actors who were interviewed for
this series, they all make sure that you see their eyes
"Lips may lie, but when the heart speaks through the eyes it tells only the truth."
- Edgar Rice Burroughs 😳 🥺
*Buster Keaton ... I’d rather rewatch him and my Chaplin favs as well as our other respected pioneers of the genre repeatedly ad Infinitum* than most things modern.
Unless they’re modern takes on older material for the sake of preservation. Like moving film to digital archives. So our ancestors don’t forget what *American Culture used to be with proper diction and enunciation and actual literacy and a non-monosyllabic repertoire without coming across as overly loquacious and accidentally snobbish.
*Think Gore Vidal, (even Norman mailer) Dorothy kilgallen, Dick Cavette, Tom Snyder. Noam Chomsky. Etc etc. I don’t care about HD quality or FPS or nits or whatever jargon they use nowadays. America used to have a true grand culture worth respecting and appreciating. Not what it’s devolved into currently due to 1337 leet speak and autocorrect and near illiteracy condoned and actually made popular by our current generations ‘role models’ and what most of the world considers a sick joke of an educational system
Sorry please excuse my outburst. I feel pretentious and almost like the very thing I’m complaining about now. I know many of you and us and our peers and acquaintances are perfectly admirable and I’m just making unfair broad oversimplifications and generalizations to prove a personal opinion passing it off at a factual point
The risks to human life tho.
I love her.she was very mysterious. With her looks she can tell it all.i love her in THE GRAND HOTEL..
Oh! how lucky those folk were, to be there at that time!
I wish these episodes would never end! TY for uploading
Pure genius. Today carmera men cant take credit for these things. They were mad long befor there time
*cameramen *before their time
Une édition en français serai merveilleux
George Folsey was the father of George Folsey, Jr. - longtime producer for John Landis
Edison claimed to have invented everything, he certainly invented himself!
Shes a lady handleher like a lady.and she shows him how.love her.classy
❤🎉😊🎉❤
35:36 the castle is Game of Thrones level of overblown castle size. That could stand in for Harrenhal.
Garbo really was nothing special.
Who is the girl who dances next to the man with the hat at minute 1:22
The actor is Rudolph Valentino, the actress dancing with him is Beatrice Dominguez. The clip is from the movie "The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse" made in 1921. She died in 1921 at the age of 24 from peritonitis after her appendix ruptured. Oddly enough. Valentino died in 1926 at the age of 31 from the same thing.
@@Nigelsmom2136 Omg 🥹