Silent Fantasy
see all genres ›Trick photography, fantastical design elements and fanciful themes were naturals for silent cinema, from Melies' magical miniatures to the mammoth mythological depictions of Fritz Lang's Valhalla hijinks.
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Scrooge
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one Christmas Eve. This 1923 version of Charles Dickens' immortal tale was also released to theatres as A CHRISTMAS...Watch Movie
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Scrooge
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one Christmas Eve. A long-thought-lost version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." This film was re-released in...Watch Movie
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Tannhäuser
Though different in spelling and pronunciation, Thanhouser’s adaptation of "Tannhäuser" was probably inevitable. The opera, with original libretto and music by Wagner, based on traditional legends, was the first Wagner opera seen in the United States and enjoyed great popularity throughout the...Watch Movie
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Cinderella
An elaborately produced version of the well known fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham. Although in-camera trick photography is important for the story, it is rather conventional, having been introduced over ten years earlier by...Watch Movie
