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Post by **blombluss** » Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:15 pm

dng wrote: ↑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)

As ever, a most pleasing read!

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:22 pm

dng wrote: ↑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)

Excellent!

Also - when the Lusitania was traversing the ocean / getting sunk, the animation style put me in mind of Ivor The Engine.

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:44 pm

that was definitely the best bit

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:49 pm

i started watching the master mystery today, a serial where harry houdini is a patent clerk who must foil some minor patent fraud by, er, fighting THE AUTOMATON. What is THE AUTOMATON, you ask?

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Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:50 pm

anyway the first two episoes were genuinely the most boring thing i've ever watched, and i'm not sure i'll ever watch the next 18 (EIGHTEEN)

but if you want to for some reason here they are in shite youtube-O-vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zipdW_YOM3g

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:56 pm

also harry houdini has a strange face but i couldn't tell you exactly what's strange about it but it's strange it really is

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Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:57 pm

oh no here comes the automaton!

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Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:58 pm

lots of the comments on the youtube videos soeem to be about how rubbish the automaton is but i think he seems quite nice

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:58 pm

like one of those brigands from the moon

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:08 pm

Also it should be noted that THE AUTOMATON's "giant form three times the size of a man" is in fact the exact size of a man

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Post by **vom** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:35 pm

I love the automaton and I am sad to learn that his serial is rubbish

Post by **endar** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:59 pm

yeah i've seen that before somewhere

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:10 pm

that poster was in my random images folder on my laptop, saved from tumblr on september 4th, 2016

so i expect we must have spoken about it on lold n3ta sometime around september 4th, 2016

maybe

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:10 pm

or maybe i was just trapped on tumblr then i do not know

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 18, 2023 1:10 am

dng wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:50 pm but if you want to for some reason here they are in shite youtube-O-vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zipdW_YOM3g

After reading the foreward at 49s in, I want to be the president of International Patents Inc, and halt progress for utterly selfish financial gain.

Post by **dng** » Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:10 pm

Three Ages

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

Buster Keaton is in love across all of time

Post by **vom** » Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:45 pm

hooray

I liked this one a lot, especially the Roman stuff

Post by **dng** » Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:49 pm

I just worried that maybe they'd upset that little cat

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:43 pm

Caveman / Roman / American - the three states of matter.

Also - good stuff, Davuss!

Post by **dng** » Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:26 pm

thank you

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

i was going to watch some more buster keaton today but i watched some snooker instead

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

presumably as close to being the exact opposite of buster keaton in entertainment form as it is possible to find

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:31 pm

I started watching the snooker at the gym, and there was immediately a medical emergency in the audience and play stopped, so they went back to the studio and there was Shaun Murphy congealed in a chair, peevishness and dyspepsia given almost-human form, so I watched something else instead.

Post by **dng** » Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:24 pm

yes. i like the way shaun murphy's increeasing snooker ineptitude is rewarded with constant bbc commentary appearances for some reason

Post by **dng** » Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:24 pm

by which i mean i don't like it at all

Post by **endar** » Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:26 pm

he needs to supplement his income to maintain his top hat and monocle collection

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:21 pm

One day, footage of Shaun Murphy will be 100 years old, and dng will be forced to view and comment on it, and I will laug and laug and laug at his torment! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:28 pm

I will be 127 years old by then

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:51 pm

It'll be something for you to look forward to!

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:34 pm

dng wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:27 pm i was going to watch some more buster keaton today but i watched some snooker instead

There wasn't any snooker today so

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

Post by **vom** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:43 pm

hooray

Post by **vom** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:45 pm

agreed that this one takes a while to get good, but the last 20 minutes or so are brilliant

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:08 pm

Yes. All I knew about this one was that it had a great waterfall scene in it, so when it got to bit with the dam getting blown up, I thought, well that was okay but I'm not sure why it's so famous

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:08 pm

but then

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:08 pm

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:24 pm

Also, this isn't buster keaton but it was included on the disc

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

and was also from 1923

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 2:13 am

dng wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:34 pm
dng wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:27 pm i was going to watch some more buster keaton today but i watched some snooker instead
There wasn't any snooker today so

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

Good mans! *thumbs up*

Also, all feuds should involve cliff falling and river sweepage!

Post by **dng** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 1:12 pm

Cats

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... chat-1900/

Lots and lots of cats

Post by **endar** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 2:05 pm

Bon Les Freres Lumieres

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 3:27 pm

Nice work, Davuss!

Post by **dng** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:44 am

oh no its 2024

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... gdad-1924/

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:26 pm

This pleases me, and not just because you mention 8-bit adventures, either!

Also - Anna May Wong = lovely!

Post by **vom** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:48 pm

good stuff!

Post by **vom** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:51 pm

He Who Gets Slapped is probably my favourite non-Buster-Keaton film from 1924 if you're taking requests

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:38 pm

dng wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 1:05 am One Week (more Buster Keaton incredibleness)

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... ek-1920-2/

which I also watched before, in actual 2020, like I was supposed to:

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

for some reason that review is much more miserable than this one. possibly because in those days i didn't even know what a buster keaton was

I watched this today, because they were showing it in a tent with a live musical accompaniment to celebrate new year's day, for some reason. Also most of The Haunted House. Anyway they're the only Buster Keaton's I've seen, they were good. My 5 year old thought they were funny too.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:39 pm

Last night I watched The Big Sleep. It was utterly incomprehensible.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:40 pm

I feel like with an extra 20 minutes of exposition it could have been the best film ever made.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:42 pm

Wait this is the thread for films that are 100 years old. I'll come back in 22 years.

Post by **dng** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:53 pm

vom wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:51 pm He Who Gets Slapped is probably my favourite non-Buster-Keaton film from 1924 if you're taking requests

i am! i will watch it

Post by **vom** » Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:39 pm

hooray