atari2600land's Blog - Silence is golden

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Well, black and white, anyway. I am amassing a collection of silent movies. I am buying them. I know they can be seen for free whenever I want on the internet probably, but I don't want to sit in my internet chair and watch a monitor, I want to sit in the comfy chair and watch them on the TV in the living room. There's probably a way to connect the TV to the internet, but god help me if I screw up the TV in the living room. That and I hate Netflix because they killed Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. So I have about a dozen so far. I bought from a catalog "The Sheik" and "The Student of Prague (1913 version)." I just find it so fascinating that these have been preserved for 100 years (or longer!) and digitally remastered so future generations can see what their ancestors used to go to the movies to watch. The older the better. I watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari a long time ago and I didn't understand most of it, but it's cool. Right now I'm buying the most famous ones, like Metropolis, or Birth of a Nation, or Intolerance. I also have a 3 DVD set of Charlie Chaplin. Poor Charlie. I read one time he came in third in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. This Halloween, I plan to watch Noseferatu. The one about Dracula and vampires. I also am making a movie. It's another minute-long movie. Remember me talking about the first one I made? Did I even talk about it? Well, anyway, this second one is called Officer Onion. It's about an onion ring that solved a crime because he was a cop that got killed in the line of duty and came back to life as an onion ring. Not only that, he was discovered by his former police partner! All I need to do is film the final scene. The ending is bad.

 

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