The Silent Era: Crash Course Film History #9

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The Silent Era of Hollywood set a lot of things into motion in terms of how movies were made and sold. Big stars were one of the main ways studios tried to make their movies stand apart from one another and get the public to make choices at the cinema. But, this also gave a lot of power to those stars to command a lot of money. In this episode of Crash Course Film History, we take a look at the Silent Era of Hollywood and people like Charlie Chaplin.

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Weird bit of historical perspective: While all this was going on, the Ottoman Empire was still a thing.

tomsmeehuijzen

i opened this video with my speakers unplugged and thought i was being ironically trolled for two minutes >:(

stoothemighty

I thought I wouldn't like Crash Course film history, but this has been one of my favorite courses and all of the videos are really interesting so far. Keep up the good work guys!

Laura-qpiw

If any of you guys are interested in the golden age of Hollywood in general, I *highly* recommend the podcast You Must Remember This, especially the series of episodes about Louis B. Meyer (one of the founders of MGM) and The Blacklist era (McCarthy, the Red Scare, etc.)

argella

Fun fact the actor Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. Because of other famous people with that name he dropped Douglas took the name Keaton from the great Buster Keaton whom he held in high regard. No relation.

NorybDrol

The thing I love about crash course is the amount of detail they put into every video. I have a feeling that I've seen vids on cinema history where this would be in the first episode, here it's number 9! Good job!

Roflmaolinde

I know all of these Silent Film actors because of Turner Classic Movies. I always love watching Silent Sunday's on TCM. Harold Loyd, Charlie Chaplain, and Buster Keaton are my all time favorite comedic actors along with The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges

natasharomanof

Poor Roscoe Arbuckle. Not only was he acquitted, but the jury of the third trial apologized to him for what he'd been through. It didn't matter, though, because his career in front of the camera was finished. The really sad part of the story of Roscoe Arbuckle, though, is that he was actually poised for an on-screen comeback, but died just a day or so after finding out that it was going to happen.

Incidentally, this year marks the 100th anniversary of Buster Keaton making his first movies.

orionova

I hope crash course film history covers Mae West. Considering that we are going to cover censorship in film in future episodes.

The censorship back then hated her guts, and that hate only made Mae West more popular.

steamdeco

I love this series! I'm actually in an Art 101 class right now for generals, and we started learning about film history just after this series started! We watched "A trip to the Moon" and "The Gold Rush" (Charlie Chaplin) It's just been really cool to learn about it, so thank you!

rachellofgran

I'd really been looking forward to this episode since the beginning of Crash Course Film History! There's so much to talk about.

It's too bad Buster Keaton didn't get a bigger role in the episode. If you do an episode on movie stunts, I hope he gets a little more spotlight. Watching that scene where the front of a building falls and just barely misses him always blows my mind.

isaacallan

Major movies talked about:

A Trip to the Moon
The Birth of a Nation
The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari
Metropolis
Battleship Potemkin

Have I missed any?

jordancollins

I'm quite surprised by the chose timeline. The Jazz Singer is from 1927 and the Hays Code doesn't really start getting applied before 1933/1934. So that's quite weird that you chose to speak of the later first, since by 1930 virtually all silent films had stopped (except for Chaplin of course).

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