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 Detective John Carter of Mars |
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February 26, 2010 09:58:48am |
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Silent features |
Are there at least 50 silent movies u/l so far? 50 is the mark-
http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#224maybe make a list to see
-see followup reply
This post was modified by Detective John Carter of Mars on 2010-02-26 17:58:48
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bearcor |
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February 20, 2010 09:17:21pm |
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Re: Silent features |
I uploaded a version of "The Joyless Street" 1925 but it never got moved from open source, Poor Greta Garbo languishing in OS such a sad fate
http://www.archive.org/details/TheJoylessStreet1926This post was modified by bearcor on 2010-02-21 05:17:21
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Detective John Carter of Mars |
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February 21, 2010 06:16:12am |
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Re: Silent features |
yeah it's hard to find features in that mess. post more links if you got em
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jonc |
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March 10, 2010 08:00:30pm |
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Re: Comedy Shorts |
A Natural Born Gambler is actually Bert Williams, not WC Fields. Given the title, that's an easy mistake to make. :)
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Detective John Carter of Mars |
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February 27, 2010 08:34:37am |
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Re: Comedy and silent Shorts |
@best to leave the silent shorts in Short Format Films
so, they would still be in the separate short_films coll (searchable, viewable that way). Question is, should they be in a grouped pile of silents too? Or, should a silent film coll only be for features?
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billbarstad |
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February 27, 2010 10:13:46am |
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Re: Comedy and silent Shorts |
Hmm. Where would people most likely think to look for short silent films: in a collection of silent films or in a collection of short films? I have no idea. Short talkies would still be grouped in Feature Films, wouldn't they? So it would be consistent if short silents were grouped with the silent features as well as Short Format Films.
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Freddie Jaye |
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February 27, 2010 02:34:20pm |
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Re: Comedy and silent Shorts |
Billbarstad, may I offer my two cents?
Good.
Personally, I would look for a silent short film first in the "silent" category, because that descriptor immediately separates it from all the other films in the archive, whether long or short.
How about a major collection of silent films sub-divided into shorts and features?
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billbarstad |
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February 27, 2010 03:56:41pm |
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Re: Comedy and silent Shorts |
That certainly is a way to go about it, but no other collection in Feature Films is subdivided.
What do you think about putting a "Silent" icon in the upper right hand corner of all silent movies in existing collections, as Detective John Carter of Mars suggested, or should the icon appear on all silent movies?
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Freddie Jaye |
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February 28, 2010 08:56:02am |
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Re: Comedy and silent Shorts |
I think adding some sort of "silent" icon to *all* silent movies could be a good solution. That way--regardless of the collection--a viewer could separate the two types effortlessly.
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Detective John Carter of Mars |
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March 10, 2010 06:09:45pm |
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Re: Comedy and silent Shorts |
ok it worked out so all the ones from the threads except some chaplins (not done yet) say "silent films" in the corner- thx for help to all.
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billbarstad |
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February 27, 2010 03:48:08pm |
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Re: Silent features, need help |
I checked the length of those films you indicated you were unsure about. The features are more than an hour long. The shorts are short in length and IMDb has them listed as shorts.
This post was modified by billbarstad on 2010-02-27 23:48:08
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guyzilla |
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March 03, 2010 03:59:08pm |
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Re: Silent features |
I personally like the idea of a silent film collection, great idea. There are some silent films in Scifi/Horror like this one:
http://www.archive.org/details/DrJekyllandMrHydeIf I were to do a search for this particular film, I would probably check in scifi/horror first, but if I didn't find it there, silent films is where I would look next. It would work for me either way.
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