/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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Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives (1922) was reportedly the first movie that cost more than $1 million. One thing that added to its budget was the large Monte Carlo set built on the Universal lot
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A behind-the-scenes look at how a shot for Pretty Ladies (1925) was filmed
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Comparing the 1925 silent version of Ben-Hur with the 1959 remake
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The Dickson Experimental Sound Film, made in late 1894 or early 1895, is the first known film with live-recorded sound. For all of the silent era it was possible to make movies with sound, but it took about 30 years to figure out a way to keep the sound in sync with the picture
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Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) is believed to be the oldest surviving film
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High Treason (1929) is a British science-fiction film that imagines life in the futuristic year 1950
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The Dancing Pig (1907)
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Martin Scorsese used At the Foot of the Flatiron (1903) as a reference when making The Age of Innocence (1993)
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Shots from silent films that were inspired by paintings
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Roscoe Arbuckle mailing a letter in The Hayseed (1919)
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7th Heaven (1927), directed by Frank Borzage
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The Mysterious Island (1929) is one of the most bonkers movies of the 1920s. Filmed partly in Technicolor and partly underwater, it started production as a silent movie in 1926 and was finally released three years later with added sound, with a final budget of over $1 million
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Charlie Chaplin ruins a magic trick in The Circus (1928)
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With the addition of Spite Marriage (1929), all of Buster Keaton's silent films are now in the public domain
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Filibus the air pirate in her various disguises in Filibus (1915). Valeria Creti plays the title character
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Santa Claus (1925), directed by Frank E. Kleinschmidt
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Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost (1901) is the oldest surviving film with intertitles and the first adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol'
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Le Roi des dollars (1905)
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The housefront stunt in "Steamboat Bill, Jr." from 1928 starring Buster Keaton.
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The Christmas Dream (1900), directed by Georges Méliès
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