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Kirkamus Anderson
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posted March 11, 2011 02:01 PM

I love watching silent cinema with terrific stunts.

Cars flying through the air, jumping from train to train, narrowly avoiding total disaster.

What are some of your favorite silent films with TERRIFIC STUNTS?

Buster Keaton? Charlie Chaplin? others?

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Michael O'Regan
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posted March 11, 2011 02:06 PM

Harold Lloyd in his "thrill" films such as SAFETY LAST, HIGH AND DIZZY, FEET FIRST, etc.

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Kirkamus Anderson
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posted March 11, 2011 02:15 PM

oh man! This is Great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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posted March 11, 2011 02:29 PM

Larry Semon comedies and Yakima Canutt westerns!

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Terry Lagler
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posted March 11, 2011 02:35 PM

Maybe not really a stunt but there's something about Chaplin trying to make it up the stairs in "One AM" that just amazes me.

And of course

Need I say more?

Cheers
Terry

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Kirkamus Anderson
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posted March 11, 2011 02:39 PM

Love the house falling down gag!

does anyone know who did that classic stunt you see all the time in commercials and whatnot.

It's a guy in a little car (kind of looks like a soapboax derby car), and he flys off a ramp and soars through the air?

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Joe Caruso
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posted March 11, 2011 03:40 PM

Lige Conley in AIR POCKETS
Jimmy Adams in NERVE TONIC
Lloyd in THE NON-STOP KID (And believe me, it is)

Shorty

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Tony Stucchio
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posted March 11, 2011 06:09 PM

SHERLOCK JR.

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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posted March 12, 2011 03:43 AM

I can't remember in which film I saw that stunt but it's my favorite of Keaton's :
Buster is standing next to a piano, he grabs his right leg, lifts it and lays it on the piano top, then he grabs his left leg and does the same. There's a microsecond there where it feels like he's floating, and one can think that he'll stay aloft thanks to trickery, but no, he falls and crashes down. It's so amazingly simple and silly, that it is pure comic genius.

Then there's also the incredible "feet in cement bowls" dance/routine from "Our Relation" with Laurel and Hardy.

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Gary Crawford
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posted March 14, 2011 12:52 PM

Almost all the Larry Semon comedies have incredible gags and stunt.....not much to do with characterization...but wow..what amazing fun. The Sawmill, The Show, There's one in a grocery store.... one in a Dept. Store.....
And of course, there's Monty Banks in Play Safe. The Blackhawk super 8 prints of most of the Semon comedies are beautiful and usually show up pretty cheaply on ebay. Even my modern audiences ...well,you can hear them ooh, ahh...and gasp during some of those Semon shorts.

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David Kilderry
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posted March 15, 2011 01:05 AM

The two best for stunts in my opinion: Keystone Cops and Snub Pollard.

Make sure you watch Snub in It's A Gift. My favourite silent comedy of all time and easy to get on 16mm, std 8 or Super 8.

David

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Tony Stucchio
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posted March 15, 2011 06:20 PM

IT'S A GIFT is perfect to show to someone unfamiliar with, or who claims he/she doesn't like, silent comedy. It is short but sweet.

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