awesome!

that's Harold Lloyd in "Speedy" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019412/ ), not Keaton...although in the old celluloids they all look the same if you're not a silent film nerd.

I have the dvd of the program this video is from. It is pretty interesting and has quite a bit of footage. I don't know who added the stupid music and sound effects to this but it is obviously a silent film. One thing I found interesting is that they have footage from multiple cameras at the site. In some of the video you could see the other camera man, where he was, what he was using to film, etc. All the camera men wore uniforms and had the old cameras. There is also autopsy film from a partial torso and arm they recovered from the wreckage.

Good stuff for people interested in UFO's

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This movie was really well done, only Chaplin could sell out theaters with silent films years after sound came out. Took him a while to finally agree to do sound, he was still the man

Saw him in San Fran, atta silent film, playing the house organ-

Everyone will have a different opinion about what music would work... I just love the concept of bringing an old movie back to life with new sound, instead of the tinny old piano scores that have become such a cliché with silent films.

dupe . . .

Go here for the whole 12 minutes -

http://www.videosift.com/video/Voyage-to-the-Moon-Classic-Silent-Film-with-Narration

Geez, I wish these collectives could be retroactive on some of this stuff.

From YouTube:

This video was created from footage from 1920s silent film about astronomy and physics called "Heavenly Bodies". The music, from Otherwise Orange is gentle and spacey; a mind sparkling journey through the Great Cosmic Dream.

Trippy and hypnotic - strangely Floydian

Out of around 1000 Hollywood films that have Arab and Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000) 12 were positive depictions, 52 were even handed and the other 900 plus were negative.


This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring the acclaimed author of "Reel Bad Arabs", Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs and Muslims - from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists" - along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypical images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.

Dr Shaheen shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab and Islamic culture, in the process reinforcing a narrow view of individual Arabs and the effects of specific US domestic and international policies on their lives. By inspiring critical thinking about the social, political, and basic human consequences of leaving these Hollywood caricatures unexamined, the film challenges viewers to recognize the urgent need for counter-narratives that do justice to the diversity and humanity of Arab people and the reality and richness of Arab history and culture.

The following is also interesting. Taken from the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the following montage entitled ‘Planet of the Arabs’, which was inspired by Dr Shaheen’s book, collects together some of the worst spectacles of Hollywood's relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1ziIxCE8M

psst . . .

bunuel
chien andalou

Bunuel added the Wagner track in 1960, but the visuals still come from 1928. This nit is outside the spelling marm parameters of this post, though. I prefer it as a silent film.

You are better off for that bamdrew-
beautifully done-still can't get over the frontman's persona-Crowleyesque, Brando in Apocalypse Now-

Looks as if they took their low-tech, special effects flavour, from the silent film, "First men in the Moon" (think its called), the one with the rocket hitting the stylized moon in his eyeball.