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fuckyeahmodernflapper: Maribel Verdú in Blancanieves (Snow White), the spanish silent version of the fairytale. Coming soon…CAN’T WAIT!! “Blancanieves is a Spanish film, directed by Pablo Berger and it’s a Gothic horror-cum-melodrama, which retells the Snow White story in 1930s Madrid. Young Carmen has been tormented from childhood by her vile stepmother, so she escapes to the woods where she joins a troupe of dwarf bullfighters. Maribel Verdú plays the older woman, Encarna, and Macarena García the younger. Did I forget to mention that it is a silent film? And black-and-white to boot. Splendid” (From Silent London)

fuckyeahmodernflapper:

Maribel Verdú in Blancanieves (Snow White), the spanish silent version of the fairytale. Coming soon…CAN’T WAIT!!

“Blancanieves is a Spanish film, directed by Pablo Berger and it’s a Gothic horror-cum-melodrama, which retells the Snow White story in 1930s Madrid.

Young Carmen has been tormented from childhood by her vile stepmother, so she escapes to the woods where she joins a troupe of dwarf bullfighters. Maribel Verdú plays the older woman, Encarna, and Macarena García the younger. Did I forget to mention that it is a silent film? And black-and-white to boot. Splendid”

(From Silent London)

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April 02, 2012
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(Source: weareallprostitutesandjunkies, via cracksillo)

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February 29, 2012
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935) directed by James Whale. Starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester.

(Source: classichorror, via lostinthe50s)

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December 13, 2011
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Maybe you won’t recognize her without the makeup, but she is Elsa Lanchester  (28 Oct 1902 – 26 Dec 1986) the Bride of Frankenstein.

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December 12, 2011
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Judy Garland’s screen test for The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

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November 12, 2011
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Boris tomándose un cafecito mientras se preparaba para rodar Frankestein (1931)  

Boris tomándose un cafecito mientras se preparaba para rodar Frankestein (1931)  

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October 21, 2011
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The eating machine scene from Modern Times.

Modern Times

1936

United States

Directed and written by Charlie Chaplin.

This film is somewhere between the silent movies and talkies. Although Chaplin’s famous Little Tramp (Charlot) was silent, the film has several sound effects, besides music, like ambient sound and voices coming out of the radio. Even Chaplin sings a version of Je cherche après Titine, but with nonsense lyrics.

The evolution of sound in films means the end of The Little Tramp:

“How long will I continue presenting as Little Tramp? … I don’t know. The sound film progresses and if I had to represent a spoken character, I should modify the characteristics of Little Tramp.” Charlie Chaplin.

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April 16, 2011
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