Silent Features

[Kitty]

I have not watched this yet, but people seem to like it. This has Constance Talmadge and John Halliday. So you were right, Donnie, there are films that still exist with John Halliday in them! The Love Expert, 1920

https://youtu.be/zBEyCx5yLlU

[donnie]

That's next on my list!

[BettyLouSpence]

Two nights ago I rewatched Poor Little Rich Girl (1917). It's such a cute little movie and has some very poetic intertitles near the end during Mary's delusion-induced dream (Here in the forest dark and deep, I offer you eternal sleep).

[donnie]

Two nights ago I rewatched Poor Little Rich Girl (1917). It's such a cute little movie and has some very poetic intertitles near the end during Mary's delusion-induced dream (Here in the forest dark and deep, I offer you eternal sleep).

That's one I've never got around to seeing. Sounds good—Mary Pickford was such a good actress!

[BettyLouSpence]

Get thee to it - you'll love it!

[donnie]

Get thee to it - you'll love it!

Will do! Btw, did you watch this on YouTube? If so, how was the score?

[BettyLouSpence]

Yes, I watched it on YouTube. The version I watched had a score that sounded nice, but was a live piece completely unrelated to the film. Unfortunately, halfway through it ends and you can hear an audience applauding, and then the next piece begins.

Luckily, I've found another upload on YouTube which not only doesn't have this problem and has a lovely orchestral score that matches the picture, but is actually in a much better quality than the one I watched (be sure to set it to 720p) along with tinted scenes - so looks like I'll be rewatching for a third time!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfW6BmHk84U

[donnie]

Great! Thanks!

[BettyLouSpence]

I rewatched two Harold Lloyd features last night: Safety Last! (1923) and Speedy (1928). Loved the Coney Island sequence in the latter, I saw some of the same rides there I saw in 1927's It (the spinning disc of the social mixer, the spinning barrel you walk in, etc.). I wish the Coney Island sequence in It was as well done or at least as long as the one in Speedy. We got to see so much of just Harold and leading lady Ann Christy spending time together, shame we couldn't really get the same of Clara Bow and Antonio Moreno.

[donnie]

Both those are classics!