Syd Chaplin - Gussle the Golfer (1914)

El medio hermano de Carlitos Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, en uno de sus primeros cortometrajes.
Es interesante comparar la forma de trabajar de Sydney con la de Charlie.
Nótese, también, la aparición de Mack Swain, un actor que solía trabajar en las películas de Carlitos...

Charlie Chaplin's half-brother, Sydney Chaplin, in one of his early shorts.

Interesting to compare Syd's performance here with Charlie's -Idle Class-.

Note the appearance of Mack Swain, a regular in Charlie's movies.

Cabiria - de Giovanni Pastore (Italia - 1914) Parte 1/3

Película completa (FULL MOVIE).
Duración parte 1: 30 minutos 29 segundos

Subtítulos en inglés

Cabiria is a classic silent movie from the early years of Italy's movie industry, directed by Giovanni Pastrone. It was released in 1914.

The movie is based on Emilio Salgari's Cartagine in fiamme (Carthage in Flames) and Gustave Flaubert's exotic novel Salammbo. Set in ancient Carthage during the period of the Second Punic War, it treats the conflict between Rome and Carthage through the eyes of Cabiria, the title character, who is kidnapped by pirates, sold as a slave in Carthage, and rescued from being sacrificed to the god Moloch by a Roman nobleman and his muscular slave Maciste (who would later become the protagonist in a whole seuccesful series of films on his own). Hannibal and his elephants fit into the convoluted plot of this epic film.

Italian author Gabriele d'Annunzio contributed to the screenplay and wrote all of the intertitles. The movie was inventive and innovative in its cinematography for the time, and was a major influence on Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith, although film critic Roger Ebert said Griffith "moves the camera with greater freedom and has a headlong narrative and an exciting use of cross-cutting that Pastrone does not approach." [1] The film also marked the debut of the Maciste character, who went on to have a long career in Italian sword and sandal films.


A restored version of the film screened on 27 May, 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival, featuring a filmed introduction by director Martin Scorsese.

Like Birth of a Nation Cabiria has aroused its share of controversy because of the political nature of its subject matter. It was produced by Italian ultra-nationalist Gabriele d'Annunzio and was released soon after the Italo-Turkish War, in which Italy conquered the North African Ottoman provinces of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania. The parallels in the film, about Rome conquering an inferior North African Carthage, can be seen as a celebration of Italian imperialism.

Cabiria - de Giovanni Pastore (Italia - 1914) Parte 2/3

Película completa (FULL MOVIE).
Duración parte 2: 29 minutos 03 segundos

Subtítulos en inglés

Cabiria - de Giovanni Pastore (Italia - 1914) Parte 3/3

Película completa (FULL MOVIE).
Duración parte 3: 43 minutos 28 segundos

Subtítulos en inglés

End of School Day at Coeducational School - Edison 1914

Más abajo está copiado el texto en inglés que acompaña a éste video. Voy a intentar reproducir lo que dice, al menos en parte.

Este es un típico film de chicos saliendo de la escuela. Lo único que cambia es el tipo de vestimenta que usaban. Se verán adolescentes haciendo gestos frente a la cámara (como suele pasar aún hoy... agrego yo)

La información acerca del film es escasa. Podría ser de comienzos de 1914, pero (dice quien comenta) no soy experto en el tipo de ropas que se usaban en esa época.

Pero eso no es lo que captó la atención de ésta persona, sino el hecho de que cree ver un reflejo en una ventana del porch "que no debería estar allí".

Dice haber visto el film docenas de veces pero no encuentra una respuesta para lo que se ve. Tedd (no sé quién es) dice que puede ser un problema durante el procesamiento del film.

Ahora se encuentran en un impasse al respecto. Hay algo allí, pero no saben decir qué puede ser. ¿Un fantasma? ¿Mala película? ¿Un gato? ¿ Un papel volando?

Es difícil encontrar algo en estos viejos films por la acción propia del tiempo.

El film está en de la colección American Memory y está bajo el rubro Schools, con el título de "End of School Day at Coeducational School" (Final del día en la Escuela Coeducacional)

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En fin, aparentemente esta persona que dejó este comentario es de aquellos que buscan determinados fenómenos que pueden darse fuera del alcance de los sentidos humanos y que una cámara podría llegar a captar. Al márgen de si es así o no... el film tiene por sí sólo un gran valor documental, por más que sólo sea una escena de escolares saliendo del colegio y yendo hacia sus casas.

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This is a typical film of kids let out of school, and amusingly, the only thing that really has changed is the clothing. You'll see the teens plotting to get in front of the camera, those that just want to get on home.

This was taken at a coeducational high school, but information on the film itself is sketchy. It might be an Edison actuality, it might be from 1914, it might be from PA. I think it's a little earlier than 1914, myself, but I'm no expert in the clothing styles.

But that wasn't what caught my attention about this film. On the porch, there is a window. On or in the window, there is a reflection which really shouldn't be there.

I've run over this film dozens of times, and I don't have an answer for the flickering light. Tedd watched the film several times, and thinks it is just a problem with the film process.

So we're at an impasse. There is something there in that film, but we can't tell what it is.

Ghost? Bad film? Cat? Errant piece of paper?

It's very difficult to find things like orbs, threads, mists, and the like in old film simply because of the age of the film and the likelihood of dust and damage, but this one may be the exception.

Or it could be a problem in processes.

The film is in the American Memory collection under "Schools", and is called "End of School Day at Coeducational School".

The music is called "Gentle Soul", taken from an opera we wrote around Dr. Caligari. This is a rough acoustic cut, which I thought fit here.

Because if the flickering light in the film isn't a cat, a paper, bad film, then it does seem to be some benign presence watching over the kids as they head for home.

Some rights reserved.

Funeral de Emiliano Zapata (Morelos - México, Abril de 1919)

FUNERAL DE EMILIANO ZAPATA. Cuautla, Morelos
Abril 1919, Blanco y Negro, 38"
Fuente: Video Emiliano Zapata.
Colección México Siglo XX.
Editorial Clio, Libros y Videos.
México, 1998.

La muerte de Emiliano Zapata (México)

Video històrico con escenas de la muerte del caudillo.(Narraciòn de Manuel Bernal, pelicula archivo Salvador Toscano).

Pancho Villa y Emiliano Zapata en la capital

Pancho Villa y Emiliano Zapata en la ciudad de México en la convención revolucionaria

Emiliano Zapata entrevistado por periodistas. 1914-1919.

ZAPATA EN ENTREVISTA POR PERIODISTAS Hermanos Alva. Morelos 1914-1919, 35 mm B/N, 1'02" Video de la Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Digitalizado en 1998 por Iliana León para la Dirección General de Actividades Cinematográficas de la UNAM. Más información: http://www.biblioteca.tv

Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay, 1914)

Parece que los dibujos animados son más antiguos de lo que pensé. También la atracción que sobre los productos audiovisuales producen los animales prehistóricos

Duración 5:46 minutos

La Grande Guerre 1914-1918 (Primera Guerra Mundial 1914 - 1918)

Parte de un documental francés que muestra imágenes del reclutamiento de ciudadanos ingleses para la guerra y algunas propagandas utilizadas para tal fin

The Kiss (El Beso) 1914

1914 silent film starring William Desmond Taylor and Margaret Gibson (aka Patricia Palmer). In 1922, Taylor was murdered, and many years later Gibson reportedly confessed to having murdered him.


Película muda de 1914 protagonizada por William Desmond Taylor y Margaret Gibson. En 1922, Taylor fue asesinado y varios años más tarde, Gibson confesó que ella lo había matado.

Duración: 9:55 minutos

Fiestas del Centenario de la Independencia de México (1910)

Fiestas del Centenario de Independencia de México, celebradas en Septiembre de 1910. Fragmento extraído del documental Memorias de un mexicano editado por la fundación Carmen Toscano.

Duración: 9:27 minutos

Paseo en Buenos Aires (1915 y 1920)

De 1915 y 1920, cine mudo argentino, en blanco y negro. En estas imágenes podemos ver en la primera parte, en Palermo, un lugar de Buenos Aires, un paseo matinal, donde se luce la moda de la epoca en el niño, la mujer y el hombre. La verdadera "bella época". En segundo termino, a pocas cuadras, El Rosedal.

Cortesía de Roberto Di Chiara.

Duración: 3:40 minutos

La Revolución Rusa de 1917 (en inglés)

Para bien o para mal. Gustara o no, la Revolución Rusa marcó todo un siglo de historia. Y aunque pareciera que quedó todo sepultado en la nada y el olvido, yo creo que quedan huellas, quedan enseñanzas de lo bueno y de lo malo que se puede tomar de esa experiencia para aplicarlo en algun momento futuro de la historia. Modificado, adaptado y mejorado, sin dudas.


P.D.: Como el documental está en inglés, no termino de saber cual es la orientación que se le da a los comentarios vertidos allí. Por eso no opino al respecto.
Se ven imágenes de esos momentos, a Lenin, a Marx, Stalin y otros.

El TITANIC en el puerto de Belfast (1911)

Escala del TITANIC en el puerto de Belfast y la partida hacia su destino ya tan conocido.

Esta es la explicación sobre el video y su historia. Está en inglés, lamentablemente.

After the death of her cinema projectionist husband in England, his widow discovers in her garden shed a rusting canister below his work bench which contains authentic period newsreel film ( which appeared to have been forgotten ) of the R.M.S.Titanic at rest in her engraving ( fitting out ) dock in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1911 shortly after she had been launched there on 31/5/11.

Unfortunately this is the only actual film of the famous ship in existence and it does not last long. To make the video an acceptable length commercially, the producers of this film also included period film of the construction of her elder sister, R.M.S.Olympic whose keel was laid in 1908 and the ice flows from 1912 to give viewers an insight of what the origin of Titanic was like and the environment during her tragic collision accident with an iceberg at 11.40p.m. on Sunday 15/4/12.

Also seen is authentic footage of the Mackay-Bennett, which sailed out of Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada being chartered by the undertakers ( morticians ) acting for the relatives of the deceased, in a quest to find and preserve bodies recovered from the sinking location in the North Atlantic where crew and passengers perished.

The saviour ship of the 705 souls aboard who survived was R.M.S. Carpathia, which is seen steaming across the ocean. You will also see the White Star line offices in New York and people helping to organise relief for survivors together with certain of Titanic's suriving crew including Robert Hichens the coxain who was actually at the ship's wheel during the collision and was notionally put in charge of the same lifeboat as The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Carpathia's captian, Sir Arthur Rostron is also seen but he does not seem happy to be filmed for too long!

The point is that since R.M.S. Olympic was the elder sister ship, she attracted the bulk of the publicity causing the media to pass her off as the Titanic, after the tragedy on film and in photographs since obviously there was no other cine film of Titanic available.

Undoubtedly if you see old film of The Titanic, apart from what is mentioned above, it is probably of the Olympic. Typical are the launch - Olympic's hull was painted grey for the cameras of the day and at Southampton on her maiden voyage in June 1911, by which time it had been painted regulation black separated by a gold band which separated the white painted upper structure.

Some people still doubt that the ship in the opening shot is " Titanic." Unless you were actually there, or can prove the " historians " wrong, please be my guest !

As far as I am concerned the opening film is " the only film of Titanic in existence ."

Jack Johnson vs Frank Moran (1914)

Pelea entre Jack Johnson y Frank Moran en el año 1914.
Es un muy buen film para la época. Está filmada en interiores y con luz artificial con una sola cámara.


Frank Moran was a heavyweight contender best known for his title fights with champions Jack Johnson (Paris, 1914) and Jess Willard (New York, 1916). Moran's record is not impressive, but at the peak of his skills he was a rough aggressive fighter with brutal overhand right he called "Mary Ann". A former football player, and dentist from Pittsburgh, Moran's style suggests a bridge between the slower stand-up styles of the old school fighters and the modern fast paced boxers to follow, beginning a few years later with Jack Dempsey. Moran gave Jack Johnson a competitive 20 round fight, but Frank was too clumsy to break through Johnson's defenses. Against Jess Willard in 1916, Moran tried again, but Jess, whose stance reminds me very much of Vitali Klitschko, was strong and not only fought well defensively, but this film shows Willard was also effective on the infighting.

The Johnson-Moran movie is good for the period, filmed indoors under artificial lighting, though with only one camera. --Rotoscope