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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 30, 2009 05:58 PM
I should mention I do have a love for 30's humor, features and shorts. There was a cvertain quality to those films that remains timeless.
Especially when seeing films that were shot on location. Silents are really fun to watch in this regard. I find it fascinating watching "The Great Train Robbery" (1902) and realizing that much of what made the old west, thee old west, was still alive and kicking. I'm seeing, (in that film) a part of the country that was as it was back then, living once again on actual film. Its mesmerizing!
The same follows for those early silents in Hollywood, when you see streets and otherwise.
A really good example of this, by the way, is the Porky Pig cartoon, "I Ought to be in Pictures", which was a live action/animation film, in black and white. There is a long drawn out shot of Porky driving in his "toon car" down a street in L.A. I love freeze framing that whole scene and seeing Gas stations (and the signs for gas!) and trolley cars and the like all over the place. It's magical.
Even more interesting to me, personally, are the transitional films, silent to sound. The awkwardness of them all, but a whole era completely ending. Its sad in some way. Especially when you consider how many careers just abruptly ended, SNAP! just like that and they were museum pieces!
Sorry about getting a little off track.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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