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Introducing my 2025 project: Silent Films Worldwide, a 200+ page Google Doc of links to online silent films from around the world, sourced mainly from their country of origin's archives (both fiction/nonfiction, shorts/feature-length, really anything before 1940. Currently includes 70 countries). Early this year I got tired of having to do deep-dive research whenever I wanted to watch an old film, and so started compiling anything I could find in one convenient location. A year later, here we are! It's made to be browsed, and will work/look best on a computer (Control+F to search). Read the Q&A on the first page if you have any questions (and if that doesn't answer them, ask me here). It might one day be an actual website, but I wanted to let the public use it without having to wait for that. Enjoy!

#silent film #film #silent cinema #early film #1920s film #silent era #rambles #reblogs are appreciated on this one! I'd really like it to reach anyone who'd find it useful

I feel it may go without saying on my blog where I mainly talk about movies, but if you’re ever looking for movie recommendations, don’t hesitate to ask! I’ve seen a ton of them (some mainstream, but especially older, foreign, & strange films) & I love to share them

#rambles #I cannot guarantee that the movie will be good! But I always try to make recommendations interesting #if you give me a film or two that you've enjoyed in the past it'll help me narrow it down

Snippets from the weekly entertainment newspaper The New York Clipper, January-December 1904 (at this point specializing mostly in news related to song releases, short films, and general performers)

#rambles #silent film #I'll post a few more years of the Clipper later on here

themeteoriteblade

This is the cover of my new comic, The Meteorite Blade, which should be coming out next year in a really nice riso-printed edition done by the incredible creature-comforts-press NY. It's finished now though, and I'm too excited to share this thing with the world to keep it under wraps until next year, so I'm going to be posting it here, on tumblr, on this new blog! I hope you'll follow along. thanks!!

#🫵 read my partner’s Bronze Age sword and sorcery comic

I’m currently reading “From Distant Days: Myths, Tales and Poems of Ancient Mesopotamia” by Benjamin R. Foster. This is a sequence from the Babylonian Epic of Creation- Marduk creating mankind from Quingu’s blood

#my art #classical mythology #ancient mesopotamia #ancient babylon #Qingu’s outfit is based on depictions of Anunnaki

From Exhibitors Herald, October 4, 1924

#buster keaton #the navigator 1924 #silent film #This design rules. I would add the name of the artist if I could decipher their signature #I think they would kill in the '90s independent comics scene

Irma Vep, member of the Vampires gang

#my art #Les vampires #musidora #silent film #just getting back in the swing of things

RE: Kuleshov Effect: I found the source of the 2008 video. It is from episode 6 of a 1996 (or perhaps 2002) Spanish 12-part docuseries called 'Amar el Cine'. The episode in question is on youtube (watch?v=axZ2H5ltpsg), the Kuleshov clip starts at around seven minutes in. More (but not all) of the episodes are in this youtube playlist (playlist?list=PLAGvrZ5-SLV33elN-lkVy4A1JuN2h-kr0).

You are my hero!!! This is definitely the origin of all the images & videos online.

We still have the question of who actually made the recreation- the rest of the clips used in the Amar el Cine episode are from various films (rather than being the show's own recreations), so that + the subtitled Russian titles makes it seem like they also got it from somewhere else. Their website just lists the clip as "Kuleshov Experiment."

Good to know we're looking for something made before 1996. This does seem to be the last link in the chain before the original, so that's pretty exciting. Thank you again for your help!

#asks #kuleshov effect #also hey I work with that machine at 2:45. & I think we use that exact film splicer

microraptorhours

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

#cannot be stated enough

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Joseph Plateau — Phenakistoscope art (1887)

RE: Kuleshov Effect: I found the same video posted on youtube a year earlier on another channel (watch?v=EmNzE_J-rpY). The description is in Italian, and via google translate is just a rundown of the Kuleshov Effect, but the description mentions a glass of wine next to the bowl of soup, which I don't remember seeing in any other written description of the original? They have some other videos and a wordpress blog, which seem to be showcasing other filmmaking techniques.

Huh! Another link in the chain. This also has audio in Spanish (possibly from Spain? I think it has distinción), which the 2008 video was missing. It just describes the Kuleshov Effect, but it does start out with "-to demonstrate this," which seems like confirmation of this being a part of a larger documentary.

Looks like the rest of the videos on their channel are clips from various films, so it seems like they got this from another source, but their wordpress blog is unfortunately private. Good to know it's been on the internet since 2007, at least. Thanks for your help!

#asks #kuleshov effect

I'm outsourcing this because it's driving me crazy. When you look up the Kuleshov Effect, you're bound to get this exact set of images:

with the implication that they're stills from the original experiment. But they're not- all sources say that the original film is lost. Also, the actor featured in the original (Russian film star Ivan Mosjoukine, who would have been about 29 at the time) doesn't particularly look like this guy.

The earliest appearance of these images online that I can find is this youtube video from March 2009. The video has no description and the channel only has one other video (a clip from Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin-Féminin). I'd guess the Kuleshov clip to be from a Soviet documentary, based on the Russian titles, and so thought it could be the 1969 documentary "The Kuleshov Effect," in which Lev Kuleshov discusses his work, but no luck. I checked a few research studies that reproduced the effect, but their shots were different, & I've followed that tiny watermark on the first image, but it's just a 2013 article. I'm hitting a brick wall! If anyone out there knows the source of this reproduction and how it became the face of the Kuleshov Effect, I'd love to know. Thanks!

#rambles #silent film #lev kuleshov #kuleshov effect #ivan mosjoukine #well. back to actual work

The New Must Have for the Modern Audiophile!

A one-page comic that I was fiddling with for a while. Inspired by Vladimir Savchenko’s short story “Mixed Up” (1980), 70s audio setups, and doing a lot of plasma donations. This comic comes with a playlist, for the discerning listener