Silent Photoplay Forum

Motion Picture Story Magazine encouraged people to write in their criticisms of certain films as well as their praise. Here is a fun example. I love number 4.
One thought: Wouldn't it be so amazing to see a silent film on the scale where you can even see that sort of thing? I mean, these criticisms are so minuscule that I don't even know if I would notice some of these things in a new film! I wonder what it was like to be experiencing this medium when it was new. I guess I can compare the feeling with playing with VR equipment. Those are really something!
This is from the February 1913 edition of Motion Picture Story.

Yes, some people notice those miniscule things. I thought no. 1 was funny.

Have you ever seen Hoodoo Ann (1916)? (One of my favorite films.) It has a part in the middle that is a parody of bad westerns of the era. It is crammed with deliberate continuity errors somewhat similar to those above, bad scripts, and over-acting—quite funny.

wow! That sounds pretty unusual. Is it on YouTube? I'll watch that for sure.

Kitty wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:55 pm

wow! That sounds pretty unusual. Is it on YouTube? I'll watch that for sure.

It is, but there’s no score, darn it, and you know how I feel about that... but if you want to watch it anyway, the part I mean starts around minute 34, where Bobby Harron and Mae Marsh go to the movies. (If you want a copy of the whole thing with a proper score, I can remedy that )

donnie wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:05 pm

Kitty wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:55 pm

wow! That sounds pretty unusual. Is it on YouTube? I'll watch that for sure.

It is, but there’s no score, darn it, and you know how I feel about that... but if you want to watch it anyway, the part I mean starts around minute 34, where Bobby Harron and Mae Marsh go to the movies. (If you want a copy of the whole thing with a proper score, I can remedy that )

I'll check it out and then let you know if I have that 'must see' feeling after watching that scene!

10-4

This is not really a criticism of the photoplay itself, but a lament on the amount of advertisements between reels that were thrown up onto the screen by theater staff. I like the poem, but I especially like the artwork surrounding the poem.

I like The Morphine Victim one.

donnie wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:37 pm

I like The Morphine Victim one.

The whiskey one is good, too, and The Manger To The Cross one is funny!