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Description
Silent Film Online contains more than 1,000 streaming online silent feature films, documentaries, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s, representing the foundation of modern cinematic technique and film theory.
Through examples such as D.W. Griffith’s use of cross-cutting in Birth of a Nation, Robert Wiene’s experimentation with camera angles and stage settings in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Eisenstein’s demonstration of the power of editing in Battleship Potemkin, these films show us the origins of the narrative language of cinema that we know today. The collection contains works from other legendary filmmakers such as Georges Méliès, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Charles Chaplin, F.W. Murnau, Luis Buñuel, Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Sjostrom, Erich von Stroheim, Carl T. Dreyer, Edwin S. Porter, and many others. The perspective is global, delivering examples of silent from Germany, Britain, the Soviet Union, and France.
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Alexander Street’s detailed Semantic Indexing lets you explore the content in depth, through credits and keyword access to social, cultural, or political dimensions.
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Dates covered
1890s to the 1930s.
Updating frequency
Complete.
Sources
Moving pictures.
Type of coverage
Streaming video.
Print counterpart or
related resources
DVD copies of most of the titles may be found in QuickSearch .
Producer/content provider
Alexander Street Press
Vendor/electronic presentation provider
Alexander Street Press
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