Silent Movie GIFs
@silentmoviegifs
I like to watch silent movies, and then make gifs from them. Created by Don McHoull
Less than six months before his death, Buster Keaton filmed the industrial-safety short The Scribe (1966), his final on-screen performance. He was still funny right to the end
The New York Herald ran an article speculating that the arrival of cinematic spectacles like The Odyssey could pose a threat to theatrical productions
The 1911 version of The Odyssey reportedly cost the equivalent of $200,000 (U.S.), a huge amount for the time
In 1911, Milano Films produced one of the first movie adaptations of The Odyssey
A moral panic from 1912 about how "movies" were encouraging children to commit crimes
Cabiria (1914) opens with a pretty impressive depiction of Mount Etna erupting
Scenes from Helena, a 1924 German silent epic about the Trojan War
This was co-directed by Giovanni Pastrone, a few years before he made Cabiria
The Fall of Troy (1911) contains one of cinema's first depictions of the story of the Trojan Horse
Buster Keaton gets water out of his waders in The Balloonatic (1923)
In 1927, Science and Invention magazine offered a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Metropolis
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) marked the screen debut of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character
The Evidence of the Film (1913) offers a behind-the-scenes look at how movies were edited
The opening shot of The Abyss (1910). The first time many people saw Asta Nielsen, who would become one of the biggest movie stars of the 1910s
The Student of Prague (1913) is one of a handful of films directed by Stellan Rye, who died the next year as a prisoner of war in France
The look on Buster Keaton's face after he completed this incredibly dangerous stunt for Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Buster Keaton demonstrating his dance moves in The Cook (1918)
