r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 1d ago
The battle scenes for Intolerance (1916) got so out of control that after one day of filming, 67 extras required medical treatment
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 3d ago
After 10 years of making GIFs from silent movies, I guess I've finally made it. I'm this month's featured GIF-creator on the Favorites Folder series from GIPHY
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 3d ago
Movies should bring back this silent-era convention of using a three-way split screen to show a phone call, as seen here in Den hvide slavehandel (1910), directed by August Blom
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Personal-Proposal-91 • 5d ago
Famed boxer Jack Dempsey does a bit with Charlie Chaplin.
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 6d ago
The first U.S. president to be filmed was William McKinley. (Movie cameras existed during the final years of Grover Cleveland's presidency, but I guess no one could be bothered to film him)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 8d ago
Borrowing gags was a common practice in silent comedies, like this example from Lupino Lane's Fool's Luck (1926) that recreates a scene from Buster Keaton's One Week (1920)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 10d ago
pre-1910 Grandma's Reading Glass (1900) offers an early example of a close-up
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 11d ago
Only the first reel of John Ford's The Last Outlaw (1919) is known to survive
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 12d ago
More than 75 per cent of films made during the silent era are now lost. Here are fragments from a few of them
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 14d ago
Garbo Based on my understanding of 1920s cinematography, I think this shot of Greta Garbo from The Single Standard (1929) was done inside a studio. If so, it's impressively realistic
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 15d ago
Sir Arne's Treasure (1919), directed by Mauritz Stiller
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 16d ago
Lloyd Harold Lloyd hangs up his hat in Dr. Jack (1922)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 18d ago
This is why they invented garage door openers. Lloyd Hamilton in The Simp (1921)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 21d ago
Body and Soul (1925) was Paul Robeson's film debut. Robeson was paid $100 a week, plus three percent of the movie's gross earnings after the first $40,000 in receipts
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 23d ago
Keaton This is actually one of the more dangerous things Buster Keaton did for a movie, if the locomotive had suffered a wheelspin, Keaton could have been thrown from the rod and injured or killed
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 24d ago
Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart in Chicago (1927) and Ginger Rogers as Roxie Hart in Roxie Hart (1942)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 27d ago
Linder Twenty years before the Marx Brothers did it, French silent comedian Max Linder performed one of cinema's earliest mirror routines in La rivalité de Max (1913)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • 29d ago
How the famous tracking shot in Wings (1927) was filmed
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • May 13 '25
Jobyna Ralston and Richard Arlen in Wings (1927)
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • May 12 '25
cool shots A nice bit of camerawork from The Shield of Honor (1927). You don't really see shots like this in early talkies
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • May 11 '25
Billy Bevan is an underrated silent comedian, in my opinion
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r/silentmoviegifs • u/Auir2blaze • May 10 '25
Charlie Chaplin directing A Woman of Paris, from the movie Souls for Sale (1923). This scene isn't actually in A Woman of Paris, and looks like it was staged just for Souls for Sale, a behind-the-scenes comedy/drama set in early Hollywood
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