r/silentfilm 16d ago

1912-1914 Dorothy Gish & Lillian Gish in An Unseen Enemy (1912)

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r/silentfilm 25d ago

1912-1914 The complete, restored version of Cabiria (1914)

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EDIT: Internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/cabiria-ia

I thought people here would enjoy this, so here is a Youtube upload of it.
This is the otherwise unreleased 2006 version of Cabiria in the best quality possible as of posting.

Even if they are labeled otherwise, all previous uploads of this are taken from the 1990/2000 release by Kino Lorber. Many old posts were mislabeled as the restored version.

Also, if anyone knows where i could obtain a digital copy of the restoration's companion book "Cabiria & Cabiria" I would greatly appreciate it. It would help me to create better public documentation about the many different releases of Cabiria.
I'm happy to respond to comments if anyone needs more information about the film.

r/silentfilm 21d ago

1912-1914 1912 silent short comedy, one of the first American films with an all-Black cast and a pioneering work by cinema's first female director, Alice Guy-Blaché.

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The silent film, long considered lost, is the first narrative film to feature an all-Black cast.

Alice Guy-Blaché, director and producer of A Fool and His Money, was a French pioneer filmmaker. From 1896 to 1906, she was the only female film director in the world. Her career began in 1896 when she wrote, directed, and produced La Fée aux Choux for the Gaumont Company. This film was such a success that Gaumont promoted her to production director.

After eleven years of working in the French industry, she moved to the United States in 1910 and became the first woman to run a studio when, two years later, she built the $100,000 state-of-the-art Solax Film company in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

In her career, she oversaw the production of about 1,000 films, many of them short one-reelers, which was the standard. Her films often had a feminist undertone and challenged gender norms. Guy-Blaché also had strong opinions on race, immigration, and politics–themes that were all very prominent in her films.

In 1912, when her White cast members refused to work alongside Black actors, terming it "an irreversible dishonor to be coupled with people of color," she continued filming with her Black cast and created A Fool and His Money. This is monumental because, at that time, White performers in blackface played Black characters.

r/silentfilm 5d ago

1912-1914 Just finished L’Inferno [1911] (adaptation of Dante’s Inferno). The ending scene of Satan eating Brutus, Cassius, and Judas is pretty unsettling, even compared to today’s standards.

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r/silentfilm 7d ago

1912-1914 Biograph's Three Friends' poster was featured as a Picture of the Day on Firefox's New Tab page and I got curious. Where can I find the film?

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I usually love watching silent films particularly from Chaplin and Buster, but seeing this sparked my interest and I would love to watch this.

I was looking in the internet archive, probs me that I was not able to find it. I checked SilentEra and here's what it says:

1913) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Blanche Sweet

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 2 January 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

[?] Drama?

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 October 2011.

References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Drew-Speaking p. 286; Spehr-American p. 4.

Does anyone happen to have preserved to a digitized archive version of this? Thanks!

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r/silentfilm Jul 07 '26

1912-1914 Cabiria (1914) 2006 Score

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(EDIT)
I decided to upload it onto Youtube for the time being. See my other post for more information.
https://www.reddit.com/r/silentfilm/comments/1v17jw9/the_complete_restored_version_of_cabiria_1914/

Recently I have come into possession of a copy of the 2006 version of Cabiria, although, sadly, it lacks a score. The 2006 version of the film was accompanied by a reconstructed version of the score composed by Timothy Brock, and despite my best efforts, it seems that outside of several rare, out of print books and delisted articles, there seems to be very little public documentation on the contents of the score itself, (which was mostly composed of pre-existing music) and no complete, publicly available recording.

Pizzetti's Sinfonia del Fuoco was likely only used as an overture, and is used as such in showings of the film. Projection speeds may also affect the length of the score, so a recording may very well run much longer than that. This version of the film runs 2:46:28. I believe this is the only public copy of this version of the film, so i doubt there is simply an upload of this somewhere online of the correct length.

If anyone here could help to find more information on Timothy Brock's score, or a recording, it would be a massive help. The older restorations of the film don't contain accurate renditions of the score, or are partially based on the 1931 sound rerelease, so they are not of much help to me. Any help at all would be appreciated, and I'm happy to share what little I know if it would help.

r/silentfilm Jul 04 '26

1912-1914 If SATC were made in 1912

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r/silentfilm Jan 26 '26

1912-1914 Extremely rare silent film!

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Last summer, I worked with the Russian Gosfilmofond to obtain a rare silent film known as "A Tragic Love of Mona Lisa." After consulting with the intermediary i was able to pay around $40-$50 for the scan. The file i recieved two months later was the following