r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 5d ago
Italy Sangue blu (1914) was directed by Nino Oxilia, who was killed by an Austrian shell while serving in the Italian army in 1917. Most of his films are now lost
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 10d ago
Chaplin Charlie Chaplin wins a fight in The Gold Rush (1925)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 12d ago
Keaton Buster Keaton and Sybil Seely in One Week (1920)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 19d ago
Marion Davies captured in early Technicolor. Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Party_Tennis_128 • 22d ago
pre-1910 The Great Train Robbery (1903) — Edison sold this shot separately and told exhibitors to put it at either the beginning or the end
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The Great Train Robbery (1903), dir. Edwin S. Porter, Edison Manufacturing Company. Public domain.
The man is Justus D. Barnes. The shot belongs nowhere in the story — Edison's catalogue listed it on its own and left the placement to whoever was running the projector, so depending on which theatre you walked into in 1903 this was either the first thing you saw or the last.
r/silentmoviegifs • u/NoResolution599 • 24d ago
The Big Parade (1925) The only one without a letter from home
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 28d ago
Keaton 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
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 02 '26
Italy In 1911, Milano Films produced one of the first movie adaptations of The Odyssey
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Party_Tennis_128 • Aug 02 '26
MacGregor sleeps in a matchbox — There It Is (1928), Charley Bowers
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 01 '26
Italy Cabiria (1914) opens with a pretty impressive depiction of Mount Etna erupting
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 01 '26
Scenes from Helena, a 1924 German silent epic about the Trojan War
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 31 '26
Italy The Fall of Troy (1911) contains one of cinema's first depictions of the story of the Trojan Horse
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 29 '26
1890s Panorama from the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, circa 1899
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 28 '26
Keaton Buster Keaton gets water out of his waders in The Balloonatic (1923)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 25 '26
Keaton Buster Keaton crosses a river in The Scarecrow (1920)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 24 '26
Chaplin Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) marked the screen debut of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 23 '26
animation Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Trolley Troubles (1927)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 22 '26
Italy Here's a pretty remarkable shot from Cabiria (1914)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 18 '26
Lloyd Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! (1923)
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Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! (1923)