/r/silentmoviegifs
Celebrating silent movies by making GIFs out of them
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Rules:
Submissions should be gifs made from silent movies
For the purposes of this subreddit, including some sound effects or even brief segments with speech (example Modern Times) does not disqualify a movie from being considered silent. Movies released in sound and silent versions (example Blackmail) are also allowed.
Please use Imgur, Gfycat or Reddit uploads
Automod will remove submissions not from those sites, in an effort to prevent spam. If there is another gif hosting site you think should be allowed, please let mods know.
Please identify the movie gif is from
This can be either in title, or as a comment on your post. Please also try to include the year it was released. Mods will add flair for filmmaker/star if applicable.
You can also post albums containing gifs
Albums can also include non-gif images and gifs made from things other than silent movies, if these are used to provide context to some silent movie gifs. Example, it would be fine to post gifs from the sound version of Ben-Hur alongside gifs from the silent version for a comparison, or post a gif of scene and then a photo showing how scene was shot.
Buster Keaton gifs are exempt from first rule
If you want to make gifs from Keaton's sound movies, or his appearance on the Twilight Zone or whatever, more power to you. This also applies to Chaplin and Lloyd, and other silent stars at discretion of mods
Jacques Tati gifs are allowed on his birthday
Jacques Tati's birthday is October 9
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A century ago, Oscar Micheaux made Within Our Gates (1920), a movie about the violence and terror experienced by black people in America. Today it's the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director
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D.W. Griffith is sometimes called "the father of the close-up", but 100 years ago he wrote that the close-up was just "a mechanical trick” and predicted that it would rarely be used by filmmakers in 2024 because movie screens would be larger
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Charlie Chaplin in 1917 and 1972
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A cool way to start a movie: Director Ernst Lubitsch appears on screen in The Doll (1919), building a model of the set. After Lubitsch has built the set, the film cuts to a full-size version of it, complete with actors
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East Side, West Side (1927) was filmed on location in New York
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Ruth St. Denis, a pioneer of modern dance, provided the choreography for Intolerance (1916), which featured dancers trained at her Denishawn school
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Wings (1927), directed by William Wellman, won the first Academy Award for Best Picture
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Cut it out (1925)
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A 1916 anti-German propaganda cartoon created by animator Harry Julius
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Clara Bow in Wings (1927)
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Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance in Behind the Screen (1916)
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Metropolis (1927)
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Charlie Chaplin in The Adventurer (1917)
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Romeo and Juliet (1911), directed by Barry O’Neil
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