I’ve been drawing from frozen dvd images - something I used to do a lot of, but haven’t in a long time. From Queen Margot.
These are my friends. Watch the video and then give them money.
I’m pretty sure this is the movie my brother remembered from his childhood and couldn’t find again for the longest time.
Lupina & the Devil from Santa Claus (Mexico, 1959)
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Some lovely mermaid footage from the 1924 Peter Pan. Just magical!
As part of the lead-in to Trav S.D.’s book “Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube” (September 2012), in 2006 he founded the Mack Sennett Centennial Project, an endeavor to recpature and explore the lost art of silent screen comedy. Here is the first of his experiments, shot by Jim R. Moore, and starring Trav S.D., Robert Pinnock and moi.
Alice Guy was an amazing person who really should be better known. One of the true pioneers.
Rose Caron, opera singer/actress - Alice Guy Blache
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The Haunted House. 1908.
This is just completely delightful. YouTube says 1908, IMDB 1906.
My obsession with early technicolor continues. Here is a simply amazing clip the inamorato (the man self styled Trav S.D.) posted on his blog today of the Albertina Rasch dancers. From the film The March of Time, 1930.
"You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film. … There is something very distorted about this reality that they’ve created, which is that it is OK to torture women on screen. Any kind of violence towards women in a sexual scenario is fine. But give a woman pleasure? No way. Not a chance. That’s pornography."
— Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Valentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he performs cunnilingus on Michelle Williams. (via agarfields)
(Source: feminishblog, via mudwerks)
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