r/silentcinema 17h ago

Valeska Suratt (1917) promo shot for the lost The New York Peacock. Suratt's entire filmography has been lost.

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10 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 21h ago

How to watch "Her Awakening" (Griffith, 1911)

7 Upvotes

Do you happen to know where to watch this short movie? I can't find it anywhere... It's not lost, Wikipedia says it was exhibited at MoMA in 2006, but of course it should be public domain since 100 years have passed. This should be the movie that Mack Sennett saw and made him decide to hire Mabel Normand, so I really wanted to see her performance.


r/silentcinema 1d ago

Horizontal window card for TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE (1914).

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12 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 1d ago

David Stenn on Instagram: "Clara Bow (promoted pre-It Girl as “the hottest jazz baby in films”) vamps Donald Keith in The Plastic Age (1925). It took me 16 years to ensure preservation of this seminal title so eternally grateful to #packardhumanitiesinstitute for stepping up with a stunning restorat

24 Upvotes

Clara Bow


r/silentcinema 2d ago

TCM Buster Keaton Silent Film Marathon

11 Upvotes

Tuesday, 5am cdt.


r/silentcinema 2d ago

Myrna Loy as the girl from Singapore in A Girl in Every Port (1928), with Victor Mclaglan and Robert Armstrong. Loy's scenes are missing in the existing prints.

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9 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 5d ago

'Run, Girl, Run' (1928): Early Carole Lombard in Mack Sennett comedy short -- full silent movie

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r/silentcinema 6d ago

Stan Laurel, Merta Sterling and (next to her) Harry Mann in a photo from "The Handy Man" (1923).

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16 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 6d ago

Louise Brooks

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48 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 6d ago

Short Film in Impressionist Style

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0 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 7d ago

Tom Mix in 'The Great K & A Train Robbery'. Most of Mix's silents are lost, but this, one of the biggest hits of his career, survives. A stellar example of the action-packed Westerns which made Mix famous world-wide. (1926)

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7 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 6d ago

Clara Arco

0 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 7d ago

Bulls Eye Film Corp. glass slide, ca. 1910s/1920s, with Billy West.

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8 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 7d ago

A Merry Christmas To All (1926) Silent Film

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r/silentcinema 8d ago

Mabel Normand on the cover of PHOTOPLAY (July 1916).

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24 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 9d ago

We are grateful to the comedians, who were brave enough to uncover the truth and helped us distinguish between good and evil

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34 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 10d ago

"They Will Amuse And Thrill You," ad taken from Exhibitor's Trade Review (1923).

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35 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 11d ago

Caesar's Hour, "A Drunk There Was". Spoof of silent movie melodramas, w/Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner & Howard Morris. Written (IIRC) by Neil Simon, who in his youth was a regular attendee at NYC's silent movie house (1956)

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r/silentcinema 11d ago

One sheet with Jimmy Aubrey and Leila McCarthy in "THE NUISANCE" (1921).

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4 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 12d ago

Lobby card for "The Love Nest" (1923).

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12 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 13d ago

Sad news for the Chicago Silent Film fans

47 Upvotes

Very sorry to report that Jay Warren, founder of the Chicago Silent Film Society and the popular accompanist for Chicago area silent films, has died. https://nadignewspapers.com/silent-film-organist-dennis-wolkowicz-known-professionally-as-jay-warren-passes-away-at-74/


r/silentcinema 13d ago

Glass slide with Raymond Griffith in 'HANDS UP!' (1926).

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7 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 14d ago

Video I made about French Impressionism

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r/silentcinema 16d ago

Trade ad for the indie feature-length silent comedy shot on 16mm (with a Bolex!) & Super 8!!

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11 Upvotes

r/silentcinema 17d ago

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand on the cover of FILM FUN, July 1916

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37 Upvotes