Public Domain Movies - Best Classic Movies. Home - Famous Players OrchestraFamous Players Orchestra. Download & Streaming : Moving Image Archive : Internet Archive. Movies From the Silent Era. Movies From the Silent Era($20.00 each plus shipping) SQUARE SHOULDERS (1929) and THE BIG TOWN (1925) SQUARE SHOULDERS starring Louis Wolheim and Junior Coghlan. Tad is a young boy who wants to go to military school so he can grow up to be a great soldier, just like his dad. Little does he suspect that Slag (Wolheim), a bum and a thief, is actually his father. Slag, not wanting to reveal his true identity and thus destroy Tad's belief in his father as a war hero, robs a factory for the money to send his son to a fancy military academy.
I order to stay close to Tad, he takes on a job at the academy's stable. This is a truly wonderful film with elements of comedy and drama. THE BIG TOWN starring Our Gang. GRANDMA'S BOY (1922) and I DO (1921) Hooray! I DO starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis and Noah Young. Directed by and starring William S. THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN (1922) with SPOOKS (1931) and THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN (1934) THE BIRTH OF A NATION starring Lillian Gish, Henry B. Lisa's Nostalgia Cafe - Lisa's Silent Movie Page. 1900 -Motion pictures are a regular part of vaudeville shows, and kinetoscope machines can still be found in most penny arcades and amusement parlors. The movies are very short, and usually consist of nature shots (breaking waves), action shots (trains & street scenes), brief comic interludes, short variety acts, current events (the Spanish-American War) and boxing matches (which prove extremely popular).
These snippets of real life are known as actuality films. 1901 -Edison builds the first indoor glass-enclosed studio. 1902 -The birth of movies as we know them. They no longer simply record the world around us; they begin to tell stories as well. 1905 -The idea of the Nickelodeon is born. 1907 -Nickel Madness! 1907 -Already, people are worried about the impact these "nickel emporiums" are having on the public. 1910 -Up until this time, the performers appearing in motion pictures are usually stage actors who consider it "beneath them" to do movies. 1913-1918 -Movies come of age. Music. NitrateVille.com • Index page. Silent Era : The silent film website. Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.