Silent Film Intertitles

A silent film tumblr! Surprise surprise. We'll mostly post funny and interesting intertitles here, as well as the occasional silent film-related text and photo post.

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The Social Secretary (John Emerson, 1916)

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Zaza (Allan Dwan, 1923)

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A Fool There Was (Frank Powell, 1915)

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Our first post in approximately five thousand years! Surprise, we’re back!

Highly appropriate title from Paris qui dort (René Clair, 1925), in the English translation titled At 3:25.

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From The Cat and the Canary (1927).

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Silent Horror

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (1920) Körkarlen (1921) The Man Who Laughs (1928) Kurutta ippêji (1926) La chute de la maison Usher (1928) The Cat and the Canary (1927) Orlacs Hände (1924) Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

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Wings, 1927

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L’Inhumaine (Marcel L’Herbier, 1924)

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 The White Sister (1923, Henry King)

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Lemme see your tattoo!

Animated GIF from the 1926 comedy A Woman of the World. Pola Negri is (gasp!) a woman with a tattoo! Horrors! Great fun.

http://moviessilently.com/2013/02/09/lemme-see-your-tattoo-a-woman-of-the-world-animated-gif/

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Za Schastem, 1917.  Dir. Yevgeni Bauer.

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Grandma’s Boy, 1922

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Some titles from Flirting With Fate, 1916

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The Cradle Snatchers (1927, Howard Hawks)

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Wine of Youth (1924, King Vidor)

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From Kid Boots (1926)

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Show People, King Vidor, 1928