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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 16:00:07 GMT
What is your favourite defunct/obsolete film genre? That would include things like
Actuality films (common in the 1890s/1900s)
Newsreel
Serial
Erotic thriller (still occasionally done, but much rarer than it used to be)
Classroom film
Nudie film
Travelogue
Industrial film (though industrial videos are still made)
Musical revue film (common in the late-1920s/early-1930s, but very quickly unpopular)
Stag reel
...and various others.
My favourite defunct film genre is the actuality film, which were very brief glimpses of ordinary events...for me, seeing moments of Victorian/Edwardian life is just incredible.
(I hope I haven't posted this thread before. I searched for such a thread but can't find one)
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 8, 2017 16:05:23 GMT
Er... Westerns?
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 16:12:04 GMT
Good choice. They are way too few and far between these days. |
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 8, 2017 16:12:05 GMT
"French Foreign Legion" used to be a busy genre. The last one I can remember is: Legionnaire (1998) |
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Post by skribb on Aug 8, 2017 16:20:11 GMT
What makes "nudie film" different from softcore, sexploitation etC?
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 8, 2017 16:24:08 GMT
"Soundies"--the precursor to music videos, short musical films of performers from the 1940s.
I always had a soft spot for those classroom educational films we had to watch in elementary school in the 1970s. Some of them were the old "Castle" films from the 1950s, and while they
seemed out of date in the '70s, they were fun to watch. I always remembered the one that was all about proper hand washing--still very applicable today.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 16:46:14 GMT
What makes "nudie film" different from softcore, sexploitation etC? Nudie films featured lots of nudity, but no sex, and the nudity was tame compared to softcore films. |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 16:50:42 GMT
"Soundies"--the precursor to music videos, short musical films of performers from the 1940s.
Soundies were ahead of their time, anticipating the music video. Later in the 1950s there were "Snader Transcriptions", the same kind of thing but for TV. I wish more of the soundies and Snader shorts were made available, they seem quite rare. There was another version of the idea done in the 1960s, I believe distributed in Europe in a way similar to soundies (put a coin in and watch the film), but their name escapes me. |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 8, 2017 18:03:01 GMT
Big woods, big trees, northern woods, timberjacks type of movies.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 18:13:45 GMT
Big woods, big trees, northern woods, timberjacks type of movies. I watched a film recently called Timber War (1935). Only 10 ratings on IMDb, but it's public domain and circulates on an Alpha Video DVD. Probably would be considered un-PC these days. |
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Post by Wesley Crusher on Aug 8, 2017 18:23:52 GMT
Big woods, big trees, northern woods, timberjacks type of movies.  |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 18:28:31 GMT
Big woods, big trees, northern woods, timberjacks type of movies. Haven't seen the film, but I like the poster. In general I love looking at old posters. |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 8, 2017 18:39:14 GMT
Haven't seen the film, but I like the poster. In general I love looking at old posters. It's available on youtube |
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 8, 2017 18:40:06 GMT
I don't know if it is a recognized genre but I collect what I think of as "satirical 1960s freakout films". Examples:
Head (1968)
Candy (1968)
Putney Swope (1969)
The Magic Christian (1969)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
All are reviewed on my web page.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 19:00:27 GMT
I don't know if it is a recognized genre but I collect what I think of as "satirical 1960s freakout films". Examples: Head (1968) Candy (1968) Putney Swope (1969) The Magic Christian (1969) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) All are reviewed on my web page. I watched Head recently. Fascinating film. |
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Post by telegonus on Aug 8, 2017 19:42:09 GMT
Big woods, big trees, northern woods, timberjacks type of movies. Yes. There weren't a lot of them but they were a kind of western sub- genre. Along the same lines, and also, for the most part "northerns", movies about looking for gold, usually way up, well, north to Alaska. They often had Klondike or the Yukon in the title. There were a few gold rushes up there, I believe. More broadly, I also miss movies that treated the non-American, more broadly non-western world as exotic and strange, like another planet. I think of the Arabian Nights kinds of films; again, in a general sort of way, whether set in the Sahara or Baghdad, Egypt or Persia. Along the same lines were the "south seas romance" types of movies. Dorothy Lamour made a number of them but there were others as well, such as the early talkie Bird Of Paradise. Pirate movies are pretty much gone as a genre, though the occasional one still gets made. |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 20:03:04 GMT
Big woods, big trees, northern woods, timberjacks type of movies. Pirate movies are pretty much gone as a genre, though the occasional one still gets made. Speaking of which, I'd like to re-watch The Black Pirate (1926) at some point. I remember enjoying it when I last saw it. Two-colour Technicolor is da bomb. I've been tempted to make a post "Name classic films/shows with a cuddly swordsman", with Douglas Fairbanks films, some Errol Flynn films and the old "Adventures of Robin Hood" TV series cited as examples. Not sure how such a thread would go over, though... |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 8, 2017 21:14:48 GMT
Emerging in the United States during the early 1970s Blaxploitation films have had an enormous and somewhat controversial influence on American cinema. Blaxploitation films were the first to regularly feature soundtracks of funk and soul music and primarily used all black casts. Mainly set in poor urban neighbourhoods the films were an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines. The genre's role in exploring and shaping race relations in the US has been controversial. Some held that the Blaxploitation trend was a token of black empowerment, but others accused the movies of perpetuating common white stereotypes about black people. As a result, many called for the end of the genre. The NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and National Urban League joined to form the Coalition Against Blaxploitation. Their influence in the late 1970s contributed to the genre's demise. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the less radical Hollywood-financed film Shaft (both released in 1971) are credited with the invention of the 70s blaxploitation genre. Roscoe Orman stars as flamboyant pimp/drug dealer Willie Dynamite  |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 8, 2017 21:24:02 GMT
manfromplanetx Along the same lines, the 1930s/1940s "race film" subgenre of films with African-American casts, such as The Blood of Jesus (1941) and Moon Over Harlem (1939). Extremely low-budget, not even up to PRC standards, but occasionally watchable.
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Post by morrisondylanfan on Aug 9, 2017 2:30:21 GMT
Hi Dacron, I know I might be stretching "genre" a bit, but I really miss the animated shorts genre, where countless characters from Bugs Bunny and Goofy to Felix the Cat got the chance to shine in timeless classics,which in the world of 90 min movies have sadly lost their spot over the decades.
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