Silent horror and expressionist nightmares.
Silent horror and expressionist nightmares. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 31 HUSH:
Lon Chaney's Phantom haunts the Paris Opera. The unmasking scene still makes audiences jump.
Alexandre Volkoff's 1930 adventure based on Tolstoy's Hadji Murat, starring Ivan Mozzhukhin.
A sleepwalker, a sinister showman and a town of jagged painted shadows. The German Expressionist film that shaped horror.
The German-titled print of Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror: Murnau's unauthorized Dracula with a rat-faced count.
Murnau's Nosferatu in a DVD-sourced copy: a rat-faced count, a ship of plague and shadows that crawl up the stairs.
A 1928 silent adaptation of Poe's Fall of the House of Usher.
Lon Chaney is Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame, in the 1923 silent classic.
Episode 1 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 crime serial. A Paris journalist starts chasing a shadowy gang, and it opens with a severed head.
The Phantom of the Opera in its 1929 version, the silent classic with Lon Chaney reworked for the sound era.
Robert Wiene's 1920 expressionist vampire tale, made the same year as his Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Victor Sjöström's 1921 Swedish ghost story: the last sinner to die on New Year's Eve must drive Death's carriage for the year ahead.
Walter R. Booth's 1901 British trick film: miserly Scrooge gets a visit from Marley's ghost.
Roland West directs a masked killer called the Bat, prowling a creaky old mansion in this 1926 silent mystery.
Felix the Cat investigates a haunting. Spooky doings, one black cat, zero fear.
An early silent version of the Jekyll and Hyde story, from 1913.
Buster Keaton plays a bank clerk falsely accused of robbery who hides in a 'haunted' house, really a front for counterfeiters. Gags galore.
Lon Chaney is Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame, in the 1923 silent classic. Patsy Ruth Miller co-stars.
John S. Robertson's 1920 take on the Jekyll and Hyde story, the tale of a respectable doctor and the monster in his own mind.
Lon Chaney as the masked phantom haunting the Paris Opera, in the 1925 silent horror landmark. Watch for the unmasking.
Episode 2 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter: The Ring That Kills.
Georges Méliès' 1896 trick film: a giant bat flaps into a castle and turns into the devil, and the magic gets busy.
Episode 6 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter is called Hypnotic Eyes.
Episode 10 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter is called The Terrible Wedding.
Episode 8 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter is called The Thunder Master.
Episode 4 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter is called The Spectre.
Episode 3 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter: The Red Codebook.
Episode 5 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter: Dead Man's Escape.
Episode 7 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter: Satanus.
Episode 9 of Louis Feuillade's 1915 serial about the Vampires, a Paris crime gang. This chapter: The Poisoner.
Part one of the 1923 silent Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Lon Chaney as the bell ringer.
Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his Transylvanian castle, then sets his sights on Hutter's wife. F.W. Murnau's 1922 vampire landmark.
Lionel Barrymore directs an early sound mystery with a shadowy killer on the loose. Fog, suspicion and primitive microphones.
Dud breaks his mother's bank to buy his girlfriend Maime an ice cream cone, gets punished, and runs away. Early animated trouble.
Summer 1912 at Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt sorts his mail with son Archie's help, with views of the house and grounds.
Calvin Coolidge, wife Grace and their sons at home in autumn 1919, around his re-election as Massachusetts governor.
Three jumping Tommies, in British military-style costumes, tumble through acrobatic stunts on a garden-backdrop stage in 1920 vaudeville.
Kruger and Ward, billed as the tall and short of it, clown across a painted stage in a 1919 vaudeville act.
A 1919 vaudeville oddity billed as a balancing and iron jaw novelty act, with a clown in a sailor suit tumbling in.
A baboon plays the violin, then produces a striped kitten from nowhere. An animal act with a dog and a donkey, filmed on stage in 1919.
Billed as artistic foot jugglers, three performers in kimonos juggle with their feet in a 1919 vaudeville act.
Calvin Coolidge at his summer home in Plymouth, Vermont, lending a hand on his cousin Ed Blanchard's farm. The summer White House, shirtsleeve edition.
Schoolchildren perform folk dances of the world on the lawn outside their school. Silent footage, probably from the 1920s or 1930s.
A bearded peddler hawks his goods on a New York street, and a gesture turns into a fight. A staged 1900 comedy, with ethnic humor that is dated.
A 1900 double exposure puts dancer Mlle. Cathrina Bartho's Speedway dance over the churning Whirlpool Rapids of Niagara Falls.
A staged street-tough dance from 1902, a man and woman in ragged clothes, filmed by Biograph. It is rough, and a dated take on slum life.
Two watchers drink and smoke at a New York tenement wake while a widow weeps. A 1903 Biograph comedy with a dated, stereotyped view of slum life.
Two men insist on being polite to each other in a saloon, after the comic strip. Biograph's 1903 bit of courtesy turned into slapstick.
A woman on stage is wrapped in two sheets of white fabric supported by poles. A 1903 vaudeville act captured by Biograph.
Amy Muller dances a fantastic toe dance, a hand-colored favorite of 1896. A vaudeville moment on early film.
A dancer in a ruffled dress and sash twirls across a bare stage in this 1903 vaudeville turn. Pure ballet-slipper energy, no plot required.
A stage cyclist rides circles backward and forward, then rears up and spins the front wheel. An 1899 trick-riding act, no helmet in sight.
A pair of old cartoon shorts, The Haunted House and The Skeleton Symphony, from a film collector's reels. Title only to go on, so expect spooky gags.
Juan Caicedo, billed as King of the slack wire, balances in midair in this 1894 Edison vaudeville short. No net shown.
Five performers in formal dress strut through a cakewalk, the fancy-stepping dance named for the prize. A 1897 vaudeville turn, with dated stage conventions.
A man in a three-piece suit cheers his horse on at an imaginary race, jumping up and down. A 1900 pantomime of betting fever.
Five performers in evening dress put on an exaggerated cakewalk, one in a long overcoat. A 1903 vaudeville turn, with dated stage comedy.
Crissie Sheridan floats through a skirt dance in a white gown, her arms swirling the fabric into circles and patterns. Vaudeville, 1897 style.
The Leander Sisters dance as Cupid and Psyche at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco. Wings, bow and arrow, and a lot of grace.
Three young women in frilly knee-length dresses and ballet shoes dance a quadrille on a stage with a black backdrop. Vaudeville, 1903.
A trailer for the 1920 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a fiend.
Gus Keller, Novelty Bag Puncher, pummels a speed bag on a painted forest stage. A 1903 vaudeville turn, fists flying.
A trailer for F.W. Murnau's 1926 Faust, with shadows, devils and a very bad bargain.
Mephistopheles hands Faust a sword and tells him to behead Marguerite. A 1900 Edison version of the old devil's bargain, with theatrical magic.
Vaudeville duo Hart and DeMar play comic-strip favorites Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a stage bit of mischief.
Edison's silent Frankenstein, one of the earliest screen takes on the monster tale.
The hearse leaves the McKinley home in Canton as the Cabinet, admirals and generals line up. A solemn piece of 1901 news.
Vaudeville's Glenroy Brothers act out The Comic View of Boxing, a tramp versus an athlete. Edison's camera caught it in 1894.
Three dancers in full costume perform the Mikado dance for Edison's camera. The catalog said it looked best colored.
A smiling man introduces Jumbo, a trained elephant, who sits on a stool and raises her front legs. A 1919 vaudeville-style animal act.
A boxer dog sits on a stage and punches a bag like a pro. Edwin S. Porter films Miss Laura Comstock's bag-punching dog.
Harry Houdini dives for treasure and escapes island captors to rescue a kidnapped father. This print is missing part of the middle.
A masked killer called the Bat prowls a creaky old mansion in this 1926 silent mystery, here with a musical soundtrack added.
A trailer for the 1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a twisted-set tale of a sinister doctor and his sleepwalker.
Vaudeville performers fall in love in an early talkie that peeks backstage. Hal Skelly and Nancy Carroll. Added color.
A meek clerk turned amateur detective investigates strange goings-on at a remote sanitarium. Lon Chaney stars, 1925.
An inventor takes the blame when his wife kills a man in self-defense, and goes to prison for 15 years. The 1929 talkie.
A 1919 vaudeville pony act: six plumed ponies, a seesaw and a showman in a white uniform.
Theodore Roosevelt speaks to soldiers assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill in 1917. A porch, a regiment and a speech.
A trailer for Buñuel and Dalí's 1929 surrealist shocker Un Chien Andalou. Dreams, ants and one very famous razor.