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| Carl B Harrison |
Silent WIZARD OF OZ.Silent WIZARD OF OZ.
Just doing some surfing and I came across this, there was a silent version of the WIZARD OF OZ. befor the big fuss version. 
"LARRY SEMON in WIZARD OF OZ". 
Now again, you may be wondering, "Larry who? And how did he get his name above the line?" I know I did, and I flatter myself as being fairly knowledgeable about film. Larry Semon was a silent comedian, a contemporary of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd; in his heyday, he was a bigger draw and was paid more than the latter two. And Wizard of Oz is arguably the movie that provided the deathblow to his career.  
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| Jonny |
Don't like BW movies, I like them in colour.
Night of the Living Dead I bought from Pound Land is in BW but I wish I could swop it for a colour one or get my pound back to put towards the colour one 
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| Carl B Harrison |
Jonny you stingy miser 
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| Alisa |
That's quite interesting, Carl.
Looking at popularity polls of movies stars, it's interesting to note that the stars people most commonly connect with the silent era (Gish, Brooks, Chaplin, etc.) were not necessarily the most popular at the time. |
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| Carl B Harrison |
Welcome to the forum Alisa. You are totally right, there were a lot of very big silent stars of the day that were as big if not bigger than most of the commonly known one's. I guess it's all about what movies survived the melt down when they recovered the silver nitrate during the war, a lot of moves literally went up in smoke and then there was the fact that they were made of siver nitrate which led to there demise once they were opened. Think it came down to choice, which ones to save and the ones saved were the fims most rememberd, it must have some effect. Well thats one of my theories. 
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| Carl B Harrison |
Forgot to mention Alisa, just incase you didn't know and any new people who haven't seen the post from a while back theres an amazing web site called INTERNETARCHIVE Movie Archive  http://www.archive.org/details/movies
There are literally thousands of very old movies and other things to download. Theres no problem downloading them as they are all past their copyright date. As I said it's got tons of amazing movies and each movie gives you gives you a choice of the quality you want to choose just incase you only have a CD burner, most of the time you don't need to do anything special if you choose MPG, most DVD's will play it, if you haven't already visited the site I would recommend it to anyone. One question though.... if someone downloads "The Wasp Woman" could you please tell me what happens at the end, I've watched it several times and I'm still unclear  
What is very good on the archive are, the old serials like "The lost City" and an old silent version of "Robinson Crusoe". Oh" yes, I've talked about this before as well, the silent version of "Lost World" http://withintheshadowofthetree.myfreeforum.org/ftopic201.php
Hope you enjoy all the movies they have to offer. |
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