Why don't we have more of these?
I discovered a wonderful action figure of Lon Chaney from the famous (and, sadly, lost) film London After Midnight. You can also get figures of him as Erik in Phantom of the Opera and as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I did find, much to my delight, a series called Silent Screamers Action Figures. These gems include the Frankenstein monster from Edison's 1910 version of the classic tale (in which Charles Ogle played the monster) and Count Orlok from Murnau's classic Nosferatu.
These figures were all sold out at the website I checked. But they're sold all over the place.
How about some other figures?
- John Gilbert and Lillian Gish in La Boheme
- Valentino and Agnes Ayres in The Sheik
- Buster Keaton and Brown Eyes in Go West
- Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston in Girl Shy
- Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky in any of their movies
- Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish in Way Down East
- Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson in The Affairs of Anatol
- George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor in Sunrise
Come on, people! Get with it! Make some!
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Lost
One of the saddest things about the silent era; so many films from that time no longer exist. I read somewhere that the guesstimate is 80 - 90%.
That is one GRIM statistic. For all of the great films that still exist, how many more are gone? No wonder we get excited at the news that the missing footage of Metropolis has been found. I wouldn't mind taking a tour of screening rooms, old movie theaters, and the houses of theater owners, in the hope of finding even one reel of a missing film. I'm that intent.
I know that the AFI has a list of "Most Wanted" of the lost films, but I couldn't find it online; I found many mentions of it, but not the list itself.
Here are some of mine:
The Miracle Man
The Greatest Thing in Life
London After Midnight (I've seen this referred to as perhaps the most famous lost film of them all)
Remodeling Her Husband (starring Dorothy Gish and directed by none other than her sister, Lillian; her only film behind the camera)
Cleopatra
The entire epic of Greed
The Boy in Blue
Number 13
Chaney! Gish! Murnau! Hitchcock!
That is one GRIM statistic. For all of the great films that still exist, how many more are gone? No wonder we get excited at the news that the missing footage of Metropolis has been found. I wouldn't mind taking a tour of screening rooms, old movie theaters, and the houses of theater owners, in the hope of finding even one reel of a missing film. I'm that intent.
I know that the AFI has a list of "Most Wanted" of the lost films, but I couldn't find it online; I found many mentions of it, but not the list itself.
Here are some of mine:
The Miracle Man
The Greatest Thing in Life
London After Midnight (I've seen this referred to as perhaps the most famous lost film of them all)
Remodeling Her Husband (starring Dorothy Gish and directed by none other than her sister, Lillian; her only film behind the camera)
Cleopatra
The entire epic of Greed
The Boy in Blue
Number 13
Chaney! Gish! Murnau! Hitchcock!
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