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Post by hi224 on Oct 4, 2020 6:25:32 GMT
i'd say Wings.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 4, 2020 6:58:26 GMT
That's a toughie.
I would assume the first silent film I took notice of was Nosferatu but I don't know when I would have first saw it--I recall PBS running silent movies.
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Post by claudius on Oct 4, 2020 7:09:36 GMT
THE ELECTRIC HOUSE was probably the first Silent short I ever saw. Mid-80s on Showtime.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA was my first full-length Silent film. November 16-17, 1988 on Arts & Entertainment.
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Post by marianne48 on Oct 4, 2020 11:19:35 GMT
Tempest (1928), starring John Barrymore. This was presented by the mid-'70s PBS series The Silent Years, hosted by silent screen star Lillian Gish.
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Post by wmcclain on Oct 4, 2020 11:53:18 GMT
I remember seeing BROKEN BLOSSOMS at an early age... The first I paid close attention to was METROPOLIS.
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Oct 4, 2020 12:13:00 GMT
It would have been either Keaton or Chaplin. Other than that, I think it was either Sunrise or Phantom of the Opera.
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Oct 4, 2020 12:15:57 GMT
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
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Post by Reynard on Oct 4, 2020 13:44:02 GMT
Nosferatu, most likely. That's definitely the first one I really remember, since I especially rented it on video instead of watching something from TV.
I may have seen some Chaplin from television earlier, possibly shorts, or it may have been a bit later. They never impressed me the way Nosferatu did.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Oct 4, 2020 14:04:43 GMT
silent movie. I didn't ever see no more.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 4, 2020 14:12:50 GMT
It must have been a Charlie Chaplin movie, probably when I was in my teens.
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Post by phantomparticle on Oct 4, 2020 19:35:00 GMT
Tough one.
On rare occasions a local tv station would run a couple of Sennett one and two reelers on Saturday mornings in the fifties. I was the only kid I knew who watched them. Everyone else laughed at them (and me) and couldn't get out of the house fast enough.
There was Paul Killiam's Movie Museum that cut features down to a half hour and in the sixties Fractured Flickers turned everything into a joke.
So, I really didn't get to see a complete silent feature until our PBS station began running some of the classics in the early seventies and I was able to see Lon Chaney in Shadows and Metropolis.
By that time, I had read and collected several books on the era, so I was well versed by the time I actually got to watch any of them. Needless to say, when they began showing up on vhs, I was like a kid in a candy store.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 4, 2020 20:03:58 GMT
Frankenstein (1910) or A Trip to the Moon (1902) sounds right.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 4, 2020 20:06:36 GMT
I don`t remember that, but if i where to make a guess it was probably a Chaplin film.
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Post by mcclance on Oct 4, 2020 20:08:27 GMT
Not sure, but it might have been either Nanook of the North or Modern Times. Probably the former. I watched both, in different classes, during my junior year of high school.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Oct 4, 2020 20:19:37 GMT
Probably the Valentino BLOOD AND SAND
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Post by llanwydd on Oct 5, 2020 2:04:20 GMT
First one I can remember watching is Easy Street (1914) with Charlie Chaplin. When I was a kid I lived in New Jersey and I used to watch a guy named Joe Franklin on a NYC tv station. He was all about nostalgia and he showed Chaplin, The Perils of Pauline and Keystone Cops. So I have been a Chaplin fan since the age of 8 or 9.
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 5, 2020 2:38:14 GMT
Back in the 60s I recall some silent shorts on television - Chaplin I think.
The first silent I actively sought out was Battleship Potemkin, about 25 years ago.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Oct 5, 2020 3:56:58 GMT
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 5, 2020 4:07:39 GMT
I don't remember, but it was probably The General.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 5, 2020 14:33:51 GMT
1925's The Lost World.
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