Jobyna Ralston and Richard Arlen in Wings (1927)
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A nice bit of camerawork from The Shield of Honor (1927). You don't really see shots like this in early talkies
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Billy Bevan is an underrated silent comedian, in my opinion
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Charlie Chaplin directing A Woman of Paris, from the movie Souls for Sale (1923). This scene isn't actually in A Woman of Paris, and looks like it was staged just for Souls for Sale, a behind-the-scenes comedy/drama set in early Hollywood
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Newsreel coverage of the 1922 conclave
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Charley Chase in All Wet (1924)
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Mary Duncan and Charles Farrell in City Girl (1930)
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A cool concept from John Ford's Hell Bent (1918): an author contemplates a painting, which Ford then recreates and brings to life
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The Phantom Carriage (1921), directed by Victor Sjöström
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Greta Garbo laughs in Wild Orchids (1929)
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Buster Keaton in The Goat (1921)
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) launched Rudolph Valentino to stardom. The movie made more than $4 million at the box office, making it one of the biggest hits of the silent era
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A behind-the-scenes look at Erich von Stroheim directing a scene from Greed, as seen in Souls for Sale (1923)
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Harold Lloyd was born 132 years ago today, on April 20, 1893
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A Technicolor fragment of Clara Bow in Red Hair (1928), a movie that is now lost. These fragments are the only known colour footage of Bow
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Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino in Beyond the Rocks (1922), which was considered to be a lost film until a nitrate print of the film was discovered in the Netherlands in 2003 Swanson
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Two endings were shot for A Blaze on the Ocean (1912). U.S. and western European audiences got a happy ending, Russian audiences a tragic one
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Big Moments from Little Pictures (1924)
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To film The Third Alarm (1922), director Emory Johnson bought a condemned building and set it on fire
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Mary Pickford, one of the silent era's biggest stars, was born 133 years ago today in Toronto
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A rare example of a Family Circus where the punchline doesn't represent dialogue being spoken by a character in the panel. I've read thousands of Family Circus panels and I think this is the only time I've seen something like this
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Battleship Potemkin (1925), directed by Sergei Eisenstein
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A Girl's Folly (1917) offers a behind-the-scenes look at a 1910s movie studio
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