Un Chien Andalou

A 16-minute film from Spanish artists Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí. The movie is a bit weird perhaps even a little violent. The very first scene might even disturb you.

I just saw this movie in class last month and it was interesting. Indeed more interesting than what Hollywood puts out today. I hope that you'll find it interesting as well.

Read this review by Roger Ebert!

Here's a direct link to the film here.

More scenes from The Jazz Singer

Yeah I need to put this movie on the needs list. I'd like to see how "talking" scenes were effectively integrated into this film. There wasn't a lot of dialogue in the movie but there was a lot of singing. It almost looks like a modern film when ever we hear dialogue and singing.

Coffee Dan's



Mother of Mine



My Mammy

Previous post on The Jazz Singer here.

The Great Train Robbery

One of the first narrative motion pictures that was made in 1903 over 100 years ago. Here's more info attached to this vid...

A milestone in film history was one of the first narrative film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter - a former Thomas Edison cameraman. It was a primitive one-reeler action picture, about 10 minutes long, with 14-scenes, filmed in November 1903.

Read more about it here.

D.W. Griffith's Birth of Nation 1915

This is a very controversial movie. I've yet to actually watch it. The duration of this video is supposed to be 3 hrs. In 1998 this film made the 100 Years, 100 Movies list but the list was revised in 2007 and Birth of a Nation didn't make this cut. Anyway I'm sure after you watch this film, you will have an opinion so have at it.

BTW, I have enabled comment moderation for the first time on this blog. When I posted last night, I got a comment right quick and it gave me some trouble. Such as spyware trouble and I don't want any more comments with links to anything other than safe websites that doesn't cause my brower to disappear unless I click on anything to send me to a spyware site. Beyond that just leave your impressions of this film, positive or negative anything resembling racism won't get published, guaranteed.

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Those vids were provided by TVDays.com. The combined duration of these vids is about 164 minutes just over two full hours.

I posted this earlier in April however I you want to see this movie in it's entirety but of less viewable quality go here.

Lost silent Hollywood

I've admired silent movies. In the earliest days of the "motion picture" directors and cinematographers didn't have the luxury of color or even sound. All that had to be done was snap pictures of a scene and then these pictures come alive because each frame becomes motion. The people move and walk.

This really was a funny video I saw I can't tell you much about it because this YouTube user didn't give much of a description of this video. It was funny though and the further you go I call it history. Near the end after you see this story about a man visiting Universal Studios you will see how cinematographers shot their footage, with hand cranked movie cameras. They were probably complicated for their time, but I imagine very simple machines for most of us today.

Still watch this. I hope you enjoy.