Silent Movie GIFs

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

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

If you've ever heard someone say "heebie jeebies," that's an expression first popularized by Barney Google

YouTube video by Don McHoull The comic strip that won't die

My video about Barney Google: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi5...

Expect another 50 years of Garfield, I guess

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

And here's Spark Plug still showing up in a comic published just last month

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

YouTube video by Don McHoull The comic strip that won't die

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...

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

Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895

Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895

Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker (1916) and Modern Times (1936)

A few of Lon Chaney's many faces

The Paramount logo in Wings (1927) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

An image from The Policemen's Little Run showing a bulldog mix holding a pork chop and wearing a policemen's cap

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 👇

Harold Lloyd in Get Out and Get Under (1920)

Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers (1926)

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

Colleen Moore in Why Be Good? (1929)

The Voice of the Violin (1909) includes D.W. Griffith's hilariously inaccurate depiction of an anarchist meeting

The actor playing Moses was still in his 20s, even younger than Charlton Heston in the 1950s version of The 10 Commandments

YouTube video by Sam D The Life of Moses (1909) with Newly Composed Score

You can watch the full movie on YouTube, with a new musical score
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIhj...

One of cinema's first depictions of the parting of the Red Sea. From The Life of Moses (1909)

Buster Keaton and Bartine Burkett in The High Sign (1921)

The Bat (1926) was believed to be lost for decades until a print was found in the 1980s

The "Teddy" Bears (1907)

Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925)

The Freshman had its New York premiere 100 years ago today, though it had already premiered in Los Angeles back in August

Harold Lloyd's The Freshman is now 100 years old. It was Lloyd's most popular silent comedy, and one of the biggest hits of 1925, taking in $2.6 million at the box office