/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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Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
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Greed (1924)
20:45 UTC
Buster Keaton in The Goat (1921)
01:02 UTC
As an illustration of how rapidly movies were changing in the late 1920s, these are the Best Actor winners from the first two Academy Awards ceremonies: Emil Jannings and Warner Baxter
04:22 UTC
Suspense (1913), directed by Lois Weber
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Mare Nostrum (1926), an early example of a movie set on a submarine. Directed by Rex Ingram
20:27 UTC
Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure (1929)
05:13 UTC
Having a character hanging off the side of a cliff is one of the oldest cliches in cinema, but look at how Abel Gance depicted it in La Roue (1923)
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Louise Brooks in "Pandora’s Box" (1929)
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Charley Chase in The Uneasy Three (1925)
18:00 UTC
Buster Keaton in My Wife's Relations (1922)
21:23 UTC
Charlie Chaplin was pretty skilled at doing things in reverse, as demonstrated by this unused scene from Behind the Screen
16:05 UTC
Theda Bara was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1910s, but little of her work is available to watch today. Of the 38 films she starred in between 1915 and 1919, 36 have been lost or exist only in small fragments
20:18 UTC
One second from every one of Buster Keaton's silent movies, in order of release
21:45 UTC
Great surreal gag in 1918's Out West
16:24 UTC
The ending of Ernst Lubitsch's Madame DuBarry, where Pola Negri's title character is guillotined, is pretty shocking for a movie released in 1919
00:54 UTC
Buster Keaton and Phyllis Haver in The Balloonatic (1923)
20:56 UTC
Does anyone recognize the movie advertised on the posters in the photos? It is 1915 and after.
00:08 UTC
Buster Keaton eludes a tackle in Three Ages (1923)
20:14 UTC
The Magic Sword; or, A Medieval Mystery (1901). Directed by Walter R. Booth
06:13 UTC
110 years ago today, audiences first saw Charlie Chaplin playing the Little Tramp on screen with the release of Kid Auto Races at Venice on February 7, 1914
05:36 UTC
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
20:00 UTC
Help! What film is this clip from? Found among my great-grandmother's 8mm collection - definitely from 1935 or earlier
16:46 UTC
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