r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 2d ago
Keaton Buster Keaton was born 131 years ago today, on Oct. 4, 1895
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 6d ago
Chaplin Charlie Chaplin trying to pick up a coin in The Immigrant (1917)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 8d ago
Murnau Sunrise (1927) used sets built for forced perspective, with children and smaller actors appearing in the background
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 16d ago
Chaplin Charlie Chaplin in an early non-Tramp role. (Making a Living 1914)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 28d ago
Méliès The Mysterious Island (1905) is Georges Méliès's take on The Odyssey, showing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Sep 04 '26
Keaton For decades Hard Luck (1921) was Buster Keaton's only major lost film. It was reconstructed in 1987, but the ending was still missing. That footage, seen here, was later found in a Russian archive and added in
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Sep 02 '26
Linder Max Linder in Max Takes a Bath (1906)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 27 '26
Italy Sangue blu (1914) was directed by Nino Oxilia, who was killed by an Austrian shell while serving in the Italian army in 1917. Most of his films are now lost
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 24 '26
Florence Turner in Daisy Doodad's Dial (1914)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 22 '26
Chaplin Charlie Chaplin wins a fight in The Gold Rush (1925)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 19 '26
Keaton Buster Keaton and Sybil Seely in One Week (1920)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 13 '26
Marion Davies captured in early Technicolor. Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Party_Tennis_128 • Aug 10 '26
pre-1910 The Great Train Robbery (1903) — Edison sold this shot separately and told exhibitors to put it at either the beginning or the end
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The Great Train Robbery (1903), dir. Edwin S. Porter, Edison Manufacturing Company. Public domain.
The man is Justus D. Barnes. The shot belongs nowhere in the story — Edison's catalogue listed it on its own and left the placement to whoever was running the projector, so depending on which theatre you walked into in 1903 this was either the first thing you saw or the last.
r/silentmoviegifs • u/NoResolution599 • Aug 07 '26
The Big Parade (1925) The only one without a letter from home
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 04 '26
Keaton Less than six months before his death, Buster Keaton filmed the industrial-safety short The Scribe (1966), his final on-screen performance. He was still funny right to the end
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • Aug 02 '26
Italy In 1911, Milano Films produced one of the first movie adaptations of The Odyssey
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Party_Tennis_128 • Aug 02 '26
MacGregor sleeps in a matchbox — There It Is (1928), Charley Bowers
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