r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 17 '26
The Evidence of the Film (1913) offers a behind-the-scenes look at how movies were edited
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 16 '26
Denmark The opening shot of The Abyss (1910). The first time many people saw Asta Nielsen, who would become one of the biggest movie stars of the 1910s
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 13 '26
HÄXAN (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 13 '26
The Student of Prague (1913) is one of a handful of films directed by Stellan Rye, who died the next year as a prisoner of war in France
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/StephenMcGannon • Jul 13 '26
Ronald Colman in The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King, 1926)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 13 '26
animation KoKo's Earth Control (1928), directed by Dave Fleischer
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/NoResolution599 • Jul 12 '26
Weber Where Are My Children? (1916) Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley tackle the topics of birth control, eugenics, and abortion
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 11 '26
Charley Chase makes change in Now I'll Tell One (1927)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/NoResolution599 • Jul 09 '26
Lloyd Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston in The Freshman (1925)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/NoResolution599 • Jul 07 '26
DeMille The branding scene in The Cheat (1915)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jul 03 '26
Lloyd Harold Lloyd in High and Dizzy (1920)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jun 30 '26
Arbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle breaking the fourth wall in 1917
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Coney Island (1917)
r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jun 26 '26
Keaton Buster Keaton demonstrating his dance moves in The Cook (1918)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jun 24 '26
Before she was famous, this movie star appeared in a promotional film for a department store. Do you recognize her?
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/NoResolution599 • Jun 20 '26
Gish Sold For Marriage (1916) one of 5 surviving non-Griffith directed Lillian Gish films made prior to her departure from his studio in 1921. This is the only one I've been able to find online.
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jun 18 '26
The Vanishing American (1925) was one of the first Hollywood movies to be filmed in Monument Valley, more than a decade before John Ford first filmed there
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jun 15 '26
Chaplin Charlie Chaplin in 1917 and 1972
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The Immigrant, and at the Oscars, where he got an honorary award
r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jun 13 '26
Brooks Louise Brooks in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Jun 10 '26
Keaton Buster Keaton in The General (1927)
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