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Silent Movie GIFs
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I like to watch silent movies, and then make gifs from them. Created by Don McHoull
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · Jul 29
My video about the dangers of being a silent-movie extra is up now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeG...
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 1d
Heading to Spain for the rest of the month, so I may not post as frequently. Though maybe I will, after 10 years of doing this it’s become kind of a compulsion to post at least one silent movie gif a day
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
I considered making a video about Gasoline Alley, but with 100 years of dense lore it just seemed too daunting. Also, while Gasoline Alley started first as part of a Sunday comics package by Frank King, Barney Google has been running longer as a daily strip
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
If you've ever heard someone say "heebie jeebies," that's an expression first popularized by Barney Google
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
My video about Barney Google: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi5...
The comic strip that won't die
YouTube video by Don McHoull
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
Expect another 50 years of Garfield, I guess
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
It's kind of crazy how long some comic strips run for. The Katzenjammer Kids started in 1897 and ran until 2006. Barney Google started in 1919 and it's still going
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
And here's Spark Plug still showing up in a comic published just last month
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
Barney Google was extremely popular in the early 1920s, as seen by this reference Buster Keaton makes to it in 3 Ages, showing Barney's famous racehorse Spark Plug
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
A bit off topic, but I made a video essay about Barney Google, a comic strip that started in 1919 and is somehow still running today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi5...
The comic strip that won't die
YouTube video by Don McHoull
www.youtube.com
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 2d
Fulta Fisher's Boarding House is the first narrative film directed by Frank Capra. Capra got the job by calling up a San Francisco-based movie studio and falsely implying he had experience working in Hollywood. At the time he was working as a book salesman
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 4d
Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 4d
Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 4d
Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker (1916) and Modern Times (1936)
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 5d
A few of Lon Chaney's many faces
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 6d
The Paramount logo in Wings (1927) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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Tristan Ettleman @ettletodd.bsky.social · 7d
1907 E7 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! I use the brief season finale to wrap up some of the themes and share the five most-selected films from the guests and listeners. (Already) old-school genres reigned supreme! Links 👇
An image from The Policemen's Little Run showing a bulldog mix holding a pork chop and wearing a policemen's cap
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 7d
Harold Lloyd in Get Out and Get Under (1920)
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 8d
Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers (1926)
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 9d
Beatriz Michelena was one of America's first Latina movie stars. All her films were feared lost until a print of Salomy Jane (1914) was discovered in Australia in 1996
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 10d
Colleen Moore in Why Be Good? (1929)
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 11d
The Voice of the Violin (1909) includes D.W. Griffith's hilariously inaccurate depiction of an anarchist meeting
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 12d
The actor playing Moses was still in his 20s, even younger than Charlton Heston in the 1950s version of The 10 Commandments
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 12d
You can watch the full movie on YouTube, with a new musical score
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIhj...
The Life of Moses (1909) with Newly Composed Score
YouTube video by Sam D
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 12d
One of cinema's first depictions of the parting of the Red Sea. From The Life of Moses (1909)
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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 13d
Buster Keaton and Bartine Burkett in The High Sign (1921)
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