this flim is 100 flams old

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:11 pm

Studies In Animal Motion (1922)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... tion-1922/

animals, in slow motion. includes a boxing kangaroo.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:43 am

dng wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 8:04 pm Hawick Ba' (1923)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... k-ba-1923/

scottish football at its finest

Fire up VAR, I say!

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:48 am

dng wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:11 pm Studies In Animal Motion (1922)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... tion-1922/

animals, in slow motion. includes a boxing kangaroo.

You could imagine Johnny Morris fighting a kangaroo in an episode of Animal Magic, and then voicing/dubbing over 'the ringside commentator'.

Post by **dng** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 4:11 pm

Playmates (1922)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... ates-1922/

Unexpected ultra horror

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:15 pm

3. Motorised beasts lumbering uselessly around in circles on a table in your local toy shop every Christmas.

Or in Man Utd's central defence?

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:17 pm

Will Hay!

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:18 pm

Mucho unsettling, that! *shudders*

Post by **dng** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:24 pm

yes. just utter total horror from the first minute to the last minute

Post by **dng** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:24 pm

(thankfully thats the same minute)

Post by **dng** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:24 pm

but still

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:55 pm

dng wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:47 pm(the naked city)

I watched another film by the same director today. Brute Force - Burt Lancaster must break out of prison because he’s the most manly man who has ever lived. It was brilliant

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:46 pm

I wish I was as manly as Burt Lancaster.

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:47 pm

we all wish we were as manly as burt lancaster

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:47 pm

this was only his second ever film apparently

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:38 pm

he starts this scene fully dressed but not even clothes can contain him

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Post by **vom** » Thu Mar 16, 2023 7:24 am

Yeah I loved that one too. Jules Dassin is one of my favourite directors from that era, I don't really understand why he's not more recognised as one of the best. Maybe because he was a victim of the Communist blacklist shit. Although after that he made a few amazing films in Europe, married a beautiful Greek actress and lived to be 96 so I think he had the last laugh

Post by **dng** » Thu Mar 16, 2023 1:02 pm

excellent. also yeah, i'd never really heard of him before, despite having heard of (but never seen) a bunch of his films (the naked city, rififi, topkapi)

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Mar 16, 2023 3:53 pm

dng wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:38 pm he starts this scene fully dressed but not even clothes can contain him

images-original.png

My kinda 5-A-Side football team photo!

Post by **dng** » Mon Mar 27, 2023 8:38 pm

within our gates (1920)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... ates-1920/

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:17 pm

Informative goodness, Davuss. Good work, sir!

Post by **vom** » Thu May 04, 2023 2:33 pm

I watched both of Buster Keaton's 1923 films this week, Three Ages and Our Hospitality. I didn't expect to like them as much as some of his later ones but Three Ages was surprisingly great and had an excellent dinosuar in it (also a lion)

Our Hospitality not quite as good, it starts reallllllllly slowly but builds up to a pretty magnificent ending

they are both one hundred years old

Post by **dng** » Thu May 04, 2023 6:11 pm

hooray

Post by **dng** » Thu May 04, 2023 6:12 pm

i bought some charle chaplin films the other day so might watch them soon

Post by **dng** » Thu May 04, 2023 6:18 pm

oh and also here's some more 100 year old football

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... 1923-1923/

at old wembley when it was still new wembley

Post by **blombluss** » Thu May 04, 2023 7:56 pm

The Jurassic Prak sequels would've been bettre if Buster Keaton was in 'em all.

Post by **blombluss** » Thu May 04, 2023 7:58 pm

dng wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 6:18 pm oh and also here's some more 100 year old football

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... 1923-1923/

at old wembley when it was still new wembley

Lovely stuff, Davuss, the notes equally so.

Post by **vom** » Mon May 08, 2023 9:44 pm

dng wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:55 pm These films aren't 100 years old at all: The Balloonatic (1923) / The Love Nest (1923)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... nest-1923/

The end of Buster Keaton (or at least my box set of Buster Keaton)

also I just finally got around to rewatching The Balloonatic and it's really shit

Post by **vom** » Mon May 08, 2023 9:44 pm

maybe he was busy saving up his better ideas for the feature length films

Post by **vom** » Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:09 pm

The Saphead

Buster Keaton's first feature film, and the only one he didn't direct. I mostly watched it for completist reasons but I actually liked it a lot! It's a more traditional romantic comedy, with only a little bit of physical / slapstick stuff, but I found it pretty relentlessly charming.

It is 103 years old.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:40 pm

Hurrah!

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:58 pm

yes. ecellent. i was wondering whether to bother watching that and now maybe i will

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:58 pm

if i ever start watching flims again

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:59 pm

actually tonight i watched the brood, a 70s cronenberg film i hadn't seen before. it was... intense

Post by **vom** » Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:18 am

ves

I've only seen that on a really crappy DVD that looked Extremely Bad but it did kind of suit the film

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:49 pm

Chuff me, I've just read up on that on Wikipedia.

Christ!

Post by **dng** » Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:52 am

this flim is in COLOUR

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... -sea-1922/

how terrifying

Post by **dng** » Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:55 am

and this flim is from plymouth

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... idge-1901/

and is also three flims

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Aug 03, 2023 2:00 pm

dng wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:52 am this flim is in COLOUR

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... -sea-1922/

how terrifying

Top work, Sir!

And I never knew Technicolor dated back to 1922!

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Aug 03, 2023 2:10 pm

dng wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:55 am and this flim is from plymouth

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... idge-1901/

and is also three flims

Hurrah!

Also - best notes!

Post by **dng** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 3:53 pm

dng wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:52 am this flim is in COLOUR

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... -sea-1922/

how terrifying

more 1922 colour

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... -iii-1922/

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:48 am

Good and noble work, Davuss!

Also, I rather digs that first bkg music choone.

Post by **dng** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 2:29 pm

the mystery of fu manchu (a 15 episode series from 1923)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... nchu-1923/

i've been watching these on and off all year and finally finished today

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:01 am

An enjoyable write-up, that!

I'm also going to murder someone by dropping a poisonous cat onto their head.

And furthermore, this mans would've made a fine Dr Who:

Dr Who Manchu

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 28, 2023 10:30 am

Surely Fu Manchu should be the master

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:08 pm

the kuleshov effect

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... fect-1918/

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:42 pm

Nice! I knew of the effect, but not it's name.

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 12, 2023 3:19 pm

the floorwalker (1916)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... lker-1916/

charlie chaplin runs up and down an escalator for 30 minutes (pretty good)

Post by **vom** » Thu Oct 12, 2023 4:48 pm

excellent

I think I've only seen "The Immigrant" from that era. I've seen a couple of earlier ones, but they were terrible. I would like to see more of these but I am NOT ALLOWED to buy any more blu-rays even though that set sounds lovely

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 12, 2023 4:58 pm

also the baddie in this was called george brush

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 12, 2023 5:59 pm

also: john bull's animated sketchbooks (1915-1916) / A Prize Fight or Glove Fight between John Bull and President Kruger (1900)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... 1915-1916/

animated political satire/wartime propaganda (shite)