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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Edwin S. Porter, born this day

Posted by Chris Edwards at 9:54 AM

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Why I do this.

I've been watching silent films since my teens. Now I write about them. And now you can read about them. Lots and lots of 'em.

"But God... WHY?"

PAST FILMS OF THE WEEK

ACTION/ADVENTURE
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Back to God's Country (1919)
The Bat (1926)
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
The Black Pirate (1926)
Conquest of the Pole (1912)
The Dollhouse Mystery (1915)
Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925)
The Grub Stake Revisited
The Ice Flood (1926)
The Indian Tomb (1921)
The Lost World (1925)
Sparrows (1926)
The Spiders, Part 1 (1919)
The Spiders, Part 2 (1920)
A Tale of Two Worlds (1921)
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

ANIMATION
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Fantasmagorie (1908)
Felix Doubles for Darwin (1924)
Modern Sculptor (Sculpteur moderne) (1908)
Paperman (2012)
Smile (2008)

COMEDY
Are Parents People? (1925)
The Balloonatic (1923)
The Cameraman (1928)
The Circus (1928)
College (1927)
Coney Island (1917)
Convict 13 (1920)
Cops (1922)
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
Do Detectives Think? (1927)
Exit Smiling (1926)
The General (1926)
The Gold Rush (1925)
He Did and He Didn't (1916)
It's the Old Army Game (1926)
A Holiday Pageant at Home (1901)
Hot Water (1924)
The Italian Straw Hat (1927)
Kid Auto Races at Venice, Cal. (1914)
Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean (1992)
Mistress Nell (1915)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Fix-It (1918)
One Week (1920)
The Patsy (1928)
Pay Day (1922)
The Playhouse (1921)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
The Red Mill (1927)
Safety Last! (1923)
Seven Chances (1925)
Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Shoulder Arms (1918)
Show People (1928)
Speedy (1928)
Spite Marriage (1929)
Three Ages (1923)
Tokyo Chorus (1931)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
Urban Twirl (2010)
The Wildcat (1921)
A Woman (1915)

CRIME
Blackmail (1929)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
The Dark Mirror (1920)
Dragnet Girl (1933)
Les Vampires (1915 to 1916)
The Racket (1928)
Regeneration (1915)
The Unholy Three (1925)
The Voice of the Voiceless (2013)

DOCUMENTARY/LIFE STUDY
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
Arrival of a Train (1896)
Axiom (2010)
Black Diamond Express, no. 1 (1896)
Daily Violence (2010)
Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)
The Epic of Everest (1924)
Grass (1925)
Idiot with a Tripod (2010)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1889)
Nanook of the North (1922)
People on Sunday (1930)
Searching Ruins On Broadway for Dead Bodies, Galveston (1900)
Scenes from a Separated Life (2010)
Some Assembly Required (2010)
Tabu (1931)
Washerwomen on the River (1896)

DRAMA
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Blind Husbands (1919)
The Busher (1919)
The Chalice of Sorrow (1916)
City Girl (1930)
Corner In Wheat (1909)
The Crowd (1928)
David Copperfield (1913)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Different From the Others (1919)
The Dream (1911)
Earth (1930)
Easy Virtue (1928)
Girl Without a Soul (1917)
The Goddess (1934)
Helen of Four Gates (1920)
Hungry Hearts (1922)
An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
Intolerance (1916)
Lady of the Night (1925)
The Jack-Knife Man (1920)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Little American (1917)
The Manxman (1929)
The Mothering Heart (1913)
The New York Hat (1912)
Old San Francisco (1927)
Oliver Twist (1922)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Polish Dancer (1917)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Sadie Thompson (1928)
The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924)
Sex (1920)
The Ship of Lost Men (1929)
The Show (1927)
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
Sunrise (1927)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
Three Women (1924)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
Variete (1925)
The White Desert (1925)
Wild Oranges (1924)
The Wind (1928)
Within the Law (1923)
A Woman of Paris (1923)
The Yellow Ticket (1918)

FANTASY
Alice in Wonderland (1915)
Blancanieves (2012)
A Christmas Accident (1912)
A Christmas Carol (1910)
Excelsior! Prince of Magicians (1901)
Faust (1926)
His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz (1914)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)
The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906)
Peter Pan (1924)
Snow White (1916)
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)

HISTORICAL
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906)
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
Haxan (1922)
The Iron Horse (1924)
Jeanne d'Arc (1899)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Rebirth of a Nation (2004, ongoing)
Richard III (1912)
Strike (1925)
The Temptation of St. Anthony (1898)

HORROR
Behind the Door (1919)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Frankenstein (1910)
A Fool There Was (1915)
The Golem (1920)
Greed (1924)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
"I Say Fever" (2009)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

ROMANCE
7th Heaven (1927)
The Artist (2011)
Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Blood and Sand (1922)
La Boheme (1926)
Cobra (1925)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Dollars and Sense (1920)
Glorious Betsy (1928)
Human Hearts (1922)
It (1927)
The Kiss (1896)
The Kiss (1929)
Lonesome (1928)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
My Best Girl (1927)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Orchids and Ermine (1927)
Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
Sex in Chains (1928)
The Single Standard (1929)
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
The Water Magician (1933)
The Wolf Song (1929)

SCIENCE FICTION
The Astronomer's Dream (1898)
The Impossible Voyage (1904)
Metropolis (Moroder Version) (1984)
Metropolis (Newly Restored) (1927)
A Trip to the Moon (1902)

WAR
All Quiet on the Western Front (silent version) (1930)
The Coward (1915)
What Price Glory? (1926)
Wings (1927)

WESTERN
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Little Train Robbery (1905)
The Man From Texas (1915)
Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927)

Sound Films with a Silent Connection

King Kong (1933)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Tabu (2012)
Yellow Earth (1984)

Talkie Miscellany

1911 (2011)
The Act of Killing (2012)
And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Avatar (2009)
La Bandera (1935)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Camp 14: Total Control Zone (2012)
Center Stage (Actress) (1992)
Chungking Express (1994)
Circus Dreams (2011)
Le Corbeau (The Raven) (1943)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Diabolique (1955)
Dial "M" For Murder (3-D) (1954)
To Die Like a Man (2009)
Early Summer (1951)
Les Espions (1957)
Fat Kid Rules the World (2012)
Flowing (1956)
Frances Ha (2012)
The Green Wave (2010)
Halloween (1978)
The Horse Thief (1986)
I Declare War (2012)
The Interrupters (2011)
The Invisible Eye (2010)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Living End (1992)
Mad Max (1979)
Max Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Dr. No (1962)
Packaged Goods (2010)
Packaged Goods, part 2 (2011)
The Princess of Montpensier (2010)
La Rayon vert (1986)
Red Sorghum (1987)
Repast (1951)
The Robber (2010)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
A Screaming Man (2010)
Sing Me the Songs that Say I Love You (2011)
Sleeper's Wake (2012)
Special Flight (2011)
Spirited Away (2001)
THEM! (1954)
Umberto D. (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Yellow Earth (1984)
Yol (The Way (1982)

Silent Film Composers & Accompanists

Philip Carli
Andrew Downing
Makia Matsumura
Ben Model
Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton
Laura Silberberg
Clark Wilson

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