100 years ago today, D.W. Griffith showed his racist epic film "Birth of a Nation" at a private White House screening for President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson called it "history written.
In class today, I was very pleased to expose another classroom of students to the amazing film Where Are My Children, from 1916. This pro-birth control, anti-abortion film (the two.
Like most of you, I spend my Saturday nights watching silent films. Title cards like this one from Children of Eve are one reason. It's almost as if directors from.
Super cool: Hidden for more than 90 years beneath the rolling sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, an enormous, plaster sphinx from the 1923 blockbuster movie "The Ten Commandments" has been.
I turn my book into my editor in 36 hours. I am delirious. The only thing keeping me going is The Gay Shoe Clerk. Ankle. Hot.
Georges Méliès, The Doctor and the Monkey, 1900
Some late Georges Méliès this week, from 1912
Georges Méliès, The Christmas Dream, from 1900.
