Music & Movies

I've heard of silent movies just never watched many

You can't miss with "Greed", "Intolerance", anything by Buster Keaton, Murnau's "Faust" and "Nosferatu" and the french serial "Les Vampires". Really, if you can get access to any of these on video or DVD and care about good movies at all, do it.

I don't know if Laurel & Hardy were ever silent though.
"Metropolis", Melies's "Trip to the moon", Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, "Battleship Potemkin" and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" are all worth seeing but more for their innovations than great stories.
"Birth of a Nation" Tends to upset people because of its racial political agenda, but is still really important because it features the first uses of closeup and intercutting of scenes.

Anyone that hase even a passing interest in these movies, if you haven't seen Peter Jacksons hilarious mockumentary, "Forgotten Silver", go out and hunt it down on video now. You won't regret it.

Yes, they were... Eisenstein's Battlecruiser Potemkin also had a huge influence on cutting techniques. The scene at the stairs in Central Station from the untouchables is one big hommage to that.

I don't want to be snobbish however, I prefer a talkie almost anytime

Here's a bit of obscure trivia: Charles Chaplin and Oliver Hardy were in a film together just before they got famous. I think Chaplin and Laurel came to America as part of the same troupe of performers.

probably

That is obscure jbryanc... I did a whole project on Charlie Chaplin in college and I'd never heard about that. I wasn't on the net then though. (I remember, it took me so long to finish, I ended up naming my new cat Charlie)

well any paper (or project) you do for college is going to be time consuming. Home work and college is just a given.

i never had a lot of homework in college...

I do.

Sir Rahz
I saw the film at a Chaplin festival when I was in college in the middle of the last century. I believe it was made pre-1920. Chaplin was a star but Hardy was described as "an incredibly young" Oliver Hardy. He didn't have the mustache because, of course, the mustache was Chaplin's.

Wow! I'm going to keep my eyes open for that one... You know the spaghetti factory in Vancouver's gas town? That's where I fell in love with all those ol' flicks...