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Kids in 1902 react to seeing a movie camera in West Bromwich, England
(From Electric Edwardians - The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon)
City Girl (1930) was the last movie F.W. Murnau made in Hollywood
This shot from Buster Keaton's The General cost $42,000 in 1926, roughly $600,000 adjusted for inflation. It is often described as the most expensive shot of the silent era
Rosalind Byrne turns down Buster Keaton without a word being spoken in Seven Chances (1925)
"These men had come straight from the Front – from Verdun – and they were due back eight days later. They played the dead knowing that in all probability they'd be dead themselves before long."
Director Abel Gance on using 2,000 real French soldiers as extras in J'accuse
Mary Pickford and Frances Marion in 1919: Two future Academy Award winners
Famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley lining up a shot using a mirror