SOMEBODY HELP IDENTIFY THIS FILM

feeds@yuku.com (hamish) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:38:38 GMT

Does anybody know what film this gif is from? I'm wondering if it's from Murnau's 1926 'FAUST'

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5287/organist.gif

Italian 1925 phantom... Anyone seen it?

feeds@yuku.com (jpakendal) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:32:17 GMT

Looking through some old threads on alt.movies.silent it seems there's a 35mm Italian print of the 1925 phantom. Is this the case or is it just another copy of the 1930 reissue? Has anyone seen it? John

New Trip To The Moon DVD ?

feeds@yuku.com (dhtreptow) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:12:28 GMT

Anyone know what this new release is all about? It's not super pricey, but I smell DVD-R.

Music for Haxan

feeds@yuku.com (rogueevolent) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:52:28 GMT

Maybe I should post this over at the Soundtracks/Horror Music page, but because a huge chunk of Paul Roland's cd is music he wrote for Haxan, I thought I'd drop it in here. fwiw.
Cd Baby says:
A double CD of unreleased songs by England's psychpop guru including his complete soundtrack recordings for the silent horror movie...

Regardless of the genre, what's your fave SIlent ?

feeds@yuku.com (FanOfHorror) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:07:03 GMT

Again, there will & should be many different answers. Now, because of the set design, makeup, other effects, I would say the Julian/Chaney POTO, but for me, I really like Chaplin's City Lights as it has a very well written story with a nice little twist at the end of the film. So they would be 1-2; at Halloween, it's POTO, other wise it's City Lights. And in 3rd ?All the other Chaney films !

It's odd as I love all of Chaplin's, but never a really fan of...

Anyone in Cardiff (Wales), check this out!!!

feeds@yuku.com (Alonso Chaney) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:19:09 GMT

http://www.chapter.org/17344.html

Hopefully this will take you to the screening of Dreyer's Vampyr!!!

If not, here's some info:

Thu 29 Oct
Iau 29 Hyd

Germany/1932/75mins/PG. Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer. With Julian West, Maurice Schultz, Rena Mandel.

When a young traveller arrives at a dour and isolated village he is drawn into a nightmarish...

Phantom of the Opera & it's music

feeds@yuku.com (FanOfHorror) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:50:02 GMT

I love this film; one of my all time faves ! That said, I will never get used to the music when he first has Christine in his subterranean chambers, some 5 floors below, & again later on in his realm. The Classical piece is just too light & airy to have playing in the background. It should be slower, darker, perhaps a Wagner piece. I can't recall the name of the music, but it may very well have been used - amongst others - in a classic Casper The Ghost episode, when he...

Nosferatu's Make-up

feeds@yuku.com (Dr Acula) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:00:27 GMT

I've read quite a bit about what Chaney Sr. did for his various make-ups... but the only thing I've ever heard about Max Schrek's Nosferatu look was the urban legend that it was mostly his natural look, and not a make-up job.

So what do we actually know?

1) Did Schrek devise and apply his own make-up?
2) If not, who did?
3) What is the most likely things that was done to create the Nosferatu look? I'm going to guess there was nose putty for a...

The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari (1919)

feeds@yuku.com (Tripod) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:15:11 GMT

This is one of the most influencial films of all-time, which can be credited as being the very first horror movie. The fact that it's still popular today----and still relevant-----is a statement to its artistic grandeur.

There's a constant duality and tension in the film between the storyline and the warped, surreal backgrounds. This expressionistic decor ultimately loses the battle, however, as you become focused on the story. And the classic twist at the end finally gives...

Soundtracks online for NOSFERATU, other silents?

feeds@yuku.com (bgart13) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:36:37 GMT

Has anyone ever found recordings that can be played at home with movies like NOSFERATU? I'm thinking about this, as I'm going to see it this evening with live piano by David Drazin here in Chicago. I see he has a cd or two available of bits he plays for silents on a website. I could imagine a blog having these or a site selling them cheap for download - simply DL them and play along on your iPod or stereo while the movie plays.

Ben

Miss Mend, a 1926 three-part serial / soon on DVD

feeds@yuku.com (Barbenfouillis) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:16:23 GMT

This announcement of a December DVD from Flicker Alley thanks to the ever diligent work of Bruce Calvert as posted over in Nitrateville:

http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=4808

Steve

The House on Silent Hill

feeds@yuku.com (MonogramPictures) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:10:21 GMT

I watched Nosferatu over the summer with my friends and I had a challange late in September is to make an Silent Horror Short and this was produced with a shoe-string budget

This is a treat to Silent Horror Fans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTm4-U-0goU&feature=player_profilepage

The House on Silent Hill

feeds@yuku.com (MonogramPictures) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:10:11 GMT

Tod Browning's Best Work?

feeds@yuku.com (MWThomas) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:24:45 GMT

My only exposure to Browning thus far, has been through DRACULA. While Lugosi's performance is iconic, I am not taken by the film. Which silent films showcase Browning's talents to their fullest?

The Owl Witch (1927)

feeds@yuku.com (TServo4) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:07:11 GMT

Does anyone have further information on this 1927 Technicolor short? It's listed in Technicolor's live-action files as being a 1-reeler. The New York Censorship Archives show John G. Ragland as the producer and the Walter H. Brooks exchange as distributing it.

Is this a genre short or does it merely have a genre title?

Frankenstein 1910

feeds@yuku.com (Imhotep) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:28:20 GMT

And... Here's a short video review on FRANKENSTEIN 1910, which begins the "monster madness" series.

http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=2585

Just a reminder

feeds@yuku.com (Lady Tottington) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:35:56 GMT

The Turner website guide lists Chaney's THE UNKNOWN for 12 P.M. on Oct. 12th and, then, THE UNHOLY THREE (1925) version following it at 1A.M.

Abominable Snow Monster

feeds@yuku.com (Southern Beau) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:22:52 GMT

Wasn't there a film with this character in it? I remember seeing a still of some kind of creature with icicles hanging around it's nose and lips.

What happened to plans for Metropolis remake?

feeds@yuku.com (Barbenfouillis) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:55:45 GMT

Does anybody know whatever happened to these plans?....

http://movies.ign.com/articles/840/840468p1.html

I doubt seriously (well...very, very, very seriously) that it will be as good as the original. But I am curious and would go to see it.
(mind you, I'm no where near as psyched as seeing the Argentina footage) I imagine that the production...

OK, since we're all so good at this--

feeds@yuku.com (Ted Newsom) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:51:20 GMT

I'm going to pop this in here as well as the Mystery Photo thread, 'cause it's a puzzler. Ron Borst sent this to me a few months ago, and neither of us could identify it.

It seems like something from the mid-1920s or very early 1930s. The guy looks a bit like Henry Hull, perhaps in a stage role, but nothing I could find indicates Hull did anything like Dracula.

Any guesses?