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Silent movies today

Hi, this article is about silent movies now😀🖐

Many modern Directors turn to the style of silent cinema. For example, canadian guy Maddin, the Creator of such films as" the saddest music in the world "(2003) and" Brand on the brain " (2006), made the techniques of subsonic cinema an integral part of his creative manner. In 2007, a notable film event was the film "Antenna" by the Argentine Director Esteban Sapir, designed in the "aesthetics of German expressionism, French avant-garde and montage cinema of the 1920s". Major audience and festival success was accompanied by the French melodrama "the Artist" (2011), directed by Michel Hazanavicius, who turned to the style of early Hollywood. The film won the best actor award at the Cannes film festival and five Academy awards, including best film, best Director and best actor.

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“The birth of a nation”

Hi, today is an article about a very interesting movie😀

The birth of a nation is an American feature silent film by David Griffith based on the works of Thomas Dixon "a member of the clan" and "Spots on the leopard skin". Initially, the film was also called "clan Member", but soon after the premiere, the Director decided to change its name.

"Birth of a nation" was the most ambitious film work of its time: the three-hour film consisted of more than 1,500 scenes, and its budget exceeded $ 100,000 (equivalent to $ 2.5 million in 2019). The success of the film contributed to the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, which ceased to exist in the 1870s.

In 1992, the film was added to the national register of the Library of Congress.

This film has 2 parts. The first was the United States before the Civil war. Second reconstruction.

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Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya

Hi, today I want to dedicate my article to the actress🤗😀

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya is a Russian and Soviet theater and film actress. Winner of three Stalin prizes . People's artist of the USSR . Knight Of The Order Of Lenin. Modern journalists often rate her as one of the greatest Russian and Soviet Actresses ,the " Queen of the second plan».

Faina Feldman was born on August 15, 1896 in Taganrog in a wealthy Jewish family. In addition to Faina, the family had three sons (Jacob, Rudolph, and Lazarus) and a daughter, Bella. In 1898, the family moved to a newly built house at 12 Nikolaevskaya street, which had previously belonged to the merchant Mikhail Nikolaevich Kamburov.

House of the Feldman family in Taganrog on Nikolayev street, she Studied at the Mariinsky women's gymnasium. She received the usual home education for a girl from a well-off family: she studied music, singing, and foreign languages. She was interested in theater from the age of 14, attending classes at the private theater Studio of A. Jagiello (A. N. govberg), graduating in 1914.

In 1915, she left for Moscow. She lived in a small room on Bolshaya Nikitskaya street. During these years, she met M. Tsvetaeva, O. Mandelstam, V. Mayakovsky, and met V. Kachalov for the first time. Judging by her memories, she was in love with Kachalov and admired his game.

Parents, brothers and sister of the actress in the post-revolutionary years left Russia and settled in Prague.

In the autumn of 1915, she signed a contract at the actors ' exchange to work in the Kerch troupe of Madame Lavrovskaya. The actress was invited "to the role of heroines-coquette with singing and dancing for 35 rubles with her wardrobe." Work in Kerch was not set: the public did not show much interest in the new troupe. Being on a walk to mount Mithridates with a certain "experienced tragedian" from the Lavrovskaya theater, I decided to look into the Bank (my mother secretly sent her money transfers from my father).

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“Safety comes first!”

Hi, I would like to dedicate today's article to one of the silent films.❤😃"Safety comes first!"is a classic Comedy silent film from 1923. The main roles were played by Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. Mildred Davis became the wife of Harold Lloyd in the same year 1923. The film is best known for the scene where Harold Lloyd hangs over the city on a clock hand. 

Plot:

1920s. An ambitious young man, eager to make a career, goes to a big city to earn money. His parents and fiancee, who remain in the small town, have high hopes for him, but he can't find a better job than a salesman at a Department store that pays $15 a week. Our hero writes letters to his beloved, who is waiting for him to achieve success in order to move to live with him, in which he hides the fact that there is no promotion on the career ladder.

He manages to save up from his meager salary for a garter for the bride, but a friend with whom they share a room and hide from the landlady in every possible way tells him that a chain is needed for the pendant. Harold sends the pendant with an "explanation" that he didn't like the chain and asked for it to be altered. His fiancee Mildred is delighted with his success....

Newspapers advertise the upcoming event, and when the police officer sees the photo, he recognizes Harold's friend. At the appointed time, he stands at the place where the ascent should begin, and Harold has to climb himself. On the second floor, a friend has to put on Harold's hat and jacket and continue climbing, but a policeman chases him, and on each floor, he shouts to Harold: "One more floor up until I get rid of the policeman!"When Harold is already high, Mildred comes to the Department store and recognizes Harold.

When, after overcoming many obstacles and avoiding almost certain falls, he climbs to the roof of the Department store, Mildred will hug him. And his friend runs from the policeman already on the roof and shouts: "I'll be back as soon as I get rid of the policeman!»

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Charles Spencer Chaplin

Hello, I want to dedicate my article to a silent film actor, Charlie Chaplin)))

Sir Charles Spencer (Charlie) Chaplin was an American and English film actor, screenwriter, composer, film Director, producer and editor, universal master of cinema, Creator of one of the most famous images of world cinema — the image of a tramp Charlipereti to the section "#Image of a Tramp", which appeared in short comedies set on stream in the 1910s at the keystone film Studio. Chaplin actively used the techniques of pantomime and buffoonery, although starting in the 1920s, his work began to pass much more serious social themes than it was in the early period of short films. Starting in April 1914, Chaplin began to act as a Director and script writer for most films with his own participation, from 1916 he also produced films, and from 1918 — wrote music.

Together with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and David Griffith, Charles Chaplin founded the United Artists film Studio in 1919. go To the section " #Activities in United Artists (1919-1939)".

Winner of the 1973 Academy award and twice winner of the non-competitive honorary Oscar in 1929 and 1972. Chaplin received the honorary Academy award in 1972 with the following wording of his merits :" for an invaluable contribution to the fact that in this century cinema has become an art". The younger brother of actor Sidney Chaplin.

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential people in the silent film era. His work was greatly influenced by the French comedian and film actor max Linder, to whom He dedicated one of his films.

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“The arrival of the train at La Ciotat station”

The arrival of the train at La Ciotat station is an 1896 silent documentary short film; one of the first films made and publicly shown by the Lumiere brothers. In Russian-language sources, the film is also referred to as "Arrival of the train" and "Arrival of the mail train", the most famous film by the Lumiere brothers. The film premiered only in January 1896.Despite the simplicity of the plot (the screen shows only a train stop at the railway platform of the station of La Ciotat and passengers moving along the cars), the film has become widely known. According to reports, the first screening of the film caused panic among the public, which was not psychologically ready to accept the "animated" image of a train moving on the audience, shown in full size. One of the most important means of expression of this video was the continuous transition from General to medium and close-UPS with a fixed camera.The film was remade in anaglyphic stereo format in 1934 by Louis Lumiere himself. Fragments from this film were included in the Soviet film "The man from Capuchin Boulevard", which ironically reflects the history of early cinema.

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The plots of comedies ... they were built on silly positions or contrasts. Heroes... chasing each other, falling in the river or in a dirty puddle; the wife beat the husband who came home drunk; hero doused with water when it passes through the streets and gardens; the husband (which was a common story) were in a fight with the mother, the quarrel ended, as usual, the fight and victory mother-in-law

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Artistic features

The first silent films were experimental and intended to demonstrate the viability of the new technology. The plots of the short films of the Cinematographer and Cinematograph were primitive and repeated the theme of the Zoetrope. The catalog of Kinetoscope movies, which numbered 60 titles at the end of 1894, mainly consisted of films about trained animals, acrobats, dancing, and wrestling.  As a result, a whole direction of silent cinema was formed, later called the "Comedy of slaps". The signature technique of such films was throwing a cake, which quickly turned into a stamp. Actors were often required not to be dramatic, but to fall effectively in front of the camera. The visual and artistic possibilities of silent cinema at the beginning of its development were extremely primitive. The first silent films were shot in one frame without editing or panning. The cameraman set up his camera so that the entire set was in the frame. The fundus system had not yet been invented, and a canvas with a gray or brown background was attached to a wooden frame. At the same time, the lower right corner should have displayed the trademark of the film Studio, glued to the scenery to mark the negative. The characters were always shot in full length, without any division into medium, large and General plans. If an actor crossed the allotted boundaries, marked with strips nailed on the floor, and his legs were cut off by a frame, the double was considered defective, because " a person can not walk without legs." The lighting of the scenes being shot was also primitive: in the early years, film pavilions, like photo studios, generally dispensed with lighting devices, using daylight passing through the glass roof.

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Technical standard

In the days of silent cinema, technical solutions were created, some of which are still used today. The vast majority of films were produced on 35-mm film with double-sided perforation and a modern frame pitch of 19 mm. Initially, there were two varieties of this system: "American" and "French". The first, developed by Edison for the "Kinetoscope", used four rectangular perforations within the frame step, while the European version of the Lumiere brothers was provided with a single round perforation. Edison's first films were shot and shown at 30 to 40 frames per second, since there was no theoretical justification for this parameter. After the success of the" Cinematograph " of the Lumiers, their chosen frequency of filming and projection of 16 frames per second gradually became the universal standard for silent cinema. Unlike sound movies, where changing the projection frequency is unacceptable because it causes sound distortion, silent films could be shown at any speed. Movie projectors of the first years did not have a stable electric drive, and projectionists who rotated the mechanism manually often chose the projection frequency at their discretion, based on the "temperament" of the audience. The role of the person who turned the handle of the movie projector at the dawn of cinema was considered no less important than the role of the creators of the film: the selection of the projection tempo was also considered an art. For quieter viewers, a speed of 18-24 frames per second was selected, and for a" live " audience, the film was accelerated to 20-30 frames per second.

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"Silent movies"

Hi! I would like to start my blog with the topic "Silent movies". Silent cinema is a kind of cinema. These movies do not have a soundtrack.From the moment of the invention of film technology until the advent of sound cinema, silent films were the only kind of movies.Instead of a synchronous soundtrack, live music performed by an orchestra or a single taper was used as the soundtrack for silent films. Currently, silent films are not released. Few short films are produced. With the advent of sound in movies, most distributors found it useless to store silent films. most of the films were disposed of. To date, no more than 25% of silent films created in that era have been preserved. There was a kind of humor in the dumbness. Basically, the joke was not funny Cunts, and in ridiculous situations.That is, when Chaplin with insane speed runs on the mill, turning the workers noses wrench is the humor of the silent movies; the fallout from the police cars pile on a sharp turn, a banana peel on the sidewalk and wallet on a string is also there.