Silent Movie GIFs

Louise Brooks in A Girl in Every Port (1928), directed by Howard Hawks

Pauline Frederick in Three Women (1924), directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Betty Blythe and Fritz Leiber in The Queen of Sheba (1921). Only a small fragment of this film is known to survive, as it was one of many casualties of a 1937 fire in the Fox studio vault

Helga Thomas in The Lost Shoe (1923), a German silent film based on the story of Cinderella. Only a fragment of the film is known to have survived

The first film adaptation of Wuthering Heights was released in 1920. Today it is believed to be a lost film

Four movies in one year was a relatively light load for Bow; she starred in six in 1927 and seven in 1926

Four movies starring Clara Bow were released in 1928. All of them are now lost, though fragments do survive from Three Week-Ends

A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) has a lot more camera movement than you typically see in Yasujirô Ozu's later work

Clara Bow and Gary Cooper in Children of Divorce (1927)

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Greta Garbo in The Joyless Street (1925), the only film she made in Germany

That version of Hamlet, produced by and starring Nielsen, is from 1921

"In terms of expression and versatility, I am nothing to her."
Greta Garbo on Asta Nielsen

Betty Bronson as Peter Pan, Mary Brian as Wendy Darling, Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell in Peter Pan (1924)

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The Blot (1921) is a drama about an underpaid college professor and his family. At one point, the professor's wife steals a chicken to feed her sick daughter. Directed by Lois Weber

King Features denies Mary Worth being the same character as Apple Mary, but people on Wikipedia have assembled some pretty convincing evidence to the contrary

Just discovered a crazy piece of Mary Worth lore: When the strip started in 1938 she was named "Apple Mary" and she sold apples on the street to survive during the depression

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), a pioneering animated feature by Lotte Reiniger

Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923)

The great earthquake of 1906 was recreated in Old San Francisco (1927)

I'm currently making my way through all 50 years of Peanuts, reading months at a time, but I think the Katzenjammer Kids, either version, would be much tougher to consume in large doses

I wonder if there is any living person who has read the complete runs of both strips? You'd be looking at reading a combined 174 years worth of strips, so it would be a pretty daunting challenge

Meanwhile there was a competing version of the strip, drawn by the original cartoonist after he left the Hearst syndicate, which retained the rights to the Katzenjammer name and hired a new cartoonist. From 1914 to 1979 the two strips were battling for newspaper space

During the First World War, the name of the strip was temporarily changed to The Shenanigan Kids, due to anti-German sentiment in the United States

The Katzenjammer Kids in Policy and Pie (1918). Adapted from a comic strip that ran from 1897 to 2006

Monty Banks in Chasing Choo Choos (1927)

Intolerance (1916)