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One of my favourite Chaplin scenes
Silent comedy performed to music
The Great Dictator (1940)
The finished product from Metropolis (1927), mixing a full-scale set (the stairs) with a miniature and some double exposure
Some cite this as the first pie fight in movie history: From That Ragtime Band (1913) with Ford Sterling hitting Mabel Normand with a pie
In 1910, Bebe Daniels played Dorothy in the earliest surviving film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A theme for today: Charlie Chaplin references on The Simpsons
(Jaws Wired Shut, Season 13)
Harry Langdon's The Strong Man was released 90 years ago today.
Frank Capra's first time directing a feature
Buster Keaton never stopped doing falls, from his first movie in 1917 to his last in 1966