International silent cinema (pre-1931 only, avoids foreign copyright restoration)
International silent cinema (pre-1931 only, avoids foreign copyright restoration) Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 74 INTERTITLE:
Czech director Gustav Machaty's sensual silent drama of seduction and its aftermath, four years before his scandalous Ecstasy.
Jean Vigo's 1930 city portrait of Nice, from beach crowds to wry visual jokes. Silent, sunny and a bit cheeky about the idle rich.
Mary Pickford sails into World War I when her ship is torpedoed, in Cecil B. DeMille's wartime drama.
Eddie Quillan, Sally Starr and Frances Upton star in a 1930 comedy.
Mud animation from San Francisco pioneer Joseph Sunn, part of the Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff series. Stop-motion made from earth.
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon star in this 1930 RKO crime drama directed by George Archainbaud.
Mud animation from San Francisco pioneer Joseph Sunn, from the Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff series. Stop-motion with a squishy touch.
A charming silent German classroom film on weaving wicker furniture from reed rope, by hand. Circa 1930.
G. W. Pabst's silent drama of hunger and hard choices in postwar Vienna, with Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen.
Four young Berliners spend a lazy Sunday at the lake, made by a crew that later conquered Hollywood: Siodmak, Ulmer, Wilder and Zinnemann.
A bored wife escapes a stifling marriage through daydreams. Germaine Dulac's 1922 French silent is an early feminist landmark.
Alexandre Volkoff's 1930 adventure based on Tolstoy's Hadji Murat, starring Ivan Mozzhukhin.
Dimitri Kirsanoff's 1920s French avant-garde Menilmontant, a lyrical silent about Paris working-class life.
A silent German educational film on how icebergs are formed, from glaciers to the open sea. 1930s science class.
Goketsu Jiraiya, or Jiraiya the Hero, a 1921 Japanese silent from Nikkatsu. A folk hero comes to the screen.
Hollywood's most famous dog, Rin Tin Tin, hunts his master's killer across the desert in this 1930 serial.
A matador and a bull face off in mud animation by Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn. Titles by Syl MacDowell, from Ralph Wolfe's Mud-Stuff.
A silent German classroom film that follows iron ore into a smelter and out as steel, circa 1930.
A 1928 Weimar slice of life by Erno Metzner, a dark, suspenseful tale in intertitles. Streets, crime and nerves.
San Francisco, 1912: a parade celebrates the formation of the Chinese Republic under Sun Yat-sen, with flags and crowds near Chinatown.
Mary Pickford and Thomas Meighan star in M'Liss, a 1918 western melodrama.
Dziga Vertov's 1924 animated satire from early Soviet Russia, a cutout cartoon with a political point.
Lupu Pick's 1921 German silent, Shattered (Scherben). A quiet, tragic chamber drama.
Crowds, stores, a parade, fireworks and a Chinese ring game as Marysville, California celebrates the Bok Kai Festival with a close look at the dragon.
Benjamin Brodsky's silent travelogue spotlights the work of Japanese women, filmed for the YWCA. A restored tour of Japan in the late 1910s.
San Francisco's Garibaldi Italian Picnic: crowds in the streets and park, a parade, officials on the reviewing stand and little boys waving hats at the camera.
Walter Ruttmann's abstract animation, where painted shapes and colors move to a silent rhythm. Early German experimental film.
Max Linder plays a heartbreaker in this 1917 Pathe two-reel comedy, with Marcelle Leuvielle, which Linder wrote and directed.
Aerial shots of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, a bird's-eye look at a movie palace.
Walter Ruttmann's second Lichtspiel: moving abstract shapes and color, no story needed. Early German animation as pure motion.
A Soviet film recounting 1919, when General Denikin's White Army threatened the Soviet Republic. Narrated, one-sided and dramatic.
Walter Ruttmann's fourth abstract Lichtspiel, early German animation from the 1920s with shapes in motion.
Walter Ruttmann's third abstract Lichtspiel from 1924, early German animation where light and shape do the acting.
A documentary on Chinese history from 1800 to 1927, covering the Boxer Rebellion and Sun Yat-sen, produced in 1967 by David Wolper.
A Soviet newsreel on the October Revolution and the civil war between the Red and White Armies, with the fight for Kiev and Moscow.
Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet silent about a 1905 mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. Montage mastery.
German footage of Operation Albion, the 1917 invasion of Estonia's western islands. A rare World War I land and sea operation on film.
The camera pans the house in Ekaterinburg where Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed in July 1918, then shows Bolshevik prisoners.
Quentin Roosevelt appears in France during World War I, with French and American officers including Eddie Rickenbacker.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. attends the Women in War Work Congress in Paris, 1918. She ran YMCA canteens and clubs for soldiers in France.
Theodore Roosevelt returns from his African hunting trip via the Nile, Paris, Scandinavia, Germany, Britain and a New York welcome.
Based on the 77th Infantry Division's surrounded 550 men in the Argonne. They suffered thirst, hunger and losses, but refused to surrender. 1919.
A 1918 animated pitch for war savings stamps, in which thrifty Americans help lock Germany's Kaiser in a circus cage. Subtle it is not.
Slow motion shows Babe Ruth's mighty swing, plus a strikeout at normal speed, and swings by Tris Speaker and Wally Pipp. Baseball, 1926, in detail.
Home movies of Ira Gershwin's circle: George Gershwin, Leo Robin, Harold Arlen and Al Jolson aboard the Majestic, in Palm Beach and Miami Beach.
Theodore Roosevelt urges crowds to back Liberty Loans, in Baltimore on September 28, 1918, and at Sagamore Hill on April 2.
Theodore Roosevelt's push to reclaim desert land, with views of Frederick Newell and Gifford Pinchot. A 1928 documentary on the Roosevelt Dam.
Captain gets life insurance, his wife bakes him a pie, and the Katzenjammer Kids sneak toads inside. He thinks she's poisoning him. 1918 animation.
A 1928 Japanese silent drama. Expect shadowy stylization and silent-film wit from another side of the world.
Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in D. W. Griffith's 1921 melodrama set during the French Revolution. Billy Bitzer shot it.
Beach and seaside scenes from the Lumière brothers' catalog, filmed in La Ciotat, France. Sea air, 1896.
A religious procession in Seville and bullfights in Seville, Béziers and Nîmes, shot in the late 1800s. French camera, Spanish scenes.
A man afraid of the flu microbe sprays everyone he meets, police included, until the angry mob chases him. A 1908 Pathe chase comedy.
An elderly widower takes rooms at a seaside boarding house and falls for the widow, but frets about his thinning hair. A 1912 romantic comedy.
A Chinese man is arrested and led away in San Francisco's Chinatown while a crowd looks on. An 1897 Edison view, staged or not, from a dated outsider's eye.
A staged reenactment of the Russo-Japanese War battle off Korea: a Japanese ship damages one Russian vessel and sinks another. Edison, 1904.
Two U.S. Navy eight-oar boats race side by side while a camera follows from a chase vessel. Sweat, oars and 1904 bragging rights.
Thousands leave the grandstand at the Longchamps military review and surge across the parade grounds toward Paris. A very busy 1900 crowd scene.
Performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show dance for a French camera in this 1896 short. A staged show piece, dated in its portrayals.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West parade rolls down Fifth Avenue with cowboys, cavalry and kids running alongside. New York, 1901, show business on horseback.
A Parisian couple falls for a cow's milk in the countryside, buys her, and tries to take her home to the apartment. The misadventures start immediately.
An animated cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 European tour, with a big stick in hand and crowned heads in a car. Political satire, early animation style.
A pan along the Champ de Mars ends with the base of the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadero in the background. Paris in 1900.
Hundreds of carriages and Parisian buses pass near the main entrance on the Champs-Elysees. Paris traffic in 1900, with horses at the wheel.
Prisoners are marched along a chain after cleaning the grounds of the Charleston Exposition. A 1902 document of its time, in a harsh period.
A silent travelogue of China and its people, produced by Isaac O. Upham. A dated outsider's view.
A Biograph melodrama: a Sioux woman follows a white man to a small house and starts a family. A dated 1909 story, with white actors in Native roles.
A magician pulls national flags from a paper hoop in a patriotic 1900 trick film. Flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland and England appear in turn.
Men hop along in a potato sack race while women, children and dogs cheer them on. An 1896 Lumiere comic race.
A sleepwalker, a sinister showman and a town of jagged painted shadows. The German Expressionist film that shaped horror.
Eisenstein's 1925 landmark of a ship's mutiny and the massacre on the Odessa steps. Spanish-titled copy.
A frontier melodrama of a runaway husband, a settler's daughter and a deadly family feud. Dated, staged view of Native characters.
Fritz Lang's 1919 silent drama, Harakiri. An early work from the director of Metropolis, in German intertitles.
A real newspaper personals ad sends a French nobleman to Grant's Tomb to find a rich American wife, and the chase is on.
The Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser Chitose slides down the ways at a San Francisco shipyard on January 22, 1898.
The cruiser Chitose again, this time nearly head-on, with rowboats crowding the foreground.
A woman and her mother bring a little dog home from a dog shelter in Gennevilliers. A 1908 Pathé comedy.
Robert Wiene's 1920 expressionist vampire tale, made the same year as his Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Winsor McCay's 1918 animated reconstruction of the Lusitania torpedoing, introduced by McCay himself. Sobering, ambitious hand-drawn work.
Louis Feuillade's 1918 French serial Tih Minh, from the director of Les Vampires.
A Soviet newsreel on industrializing the USSR, 1925 to 1930, full of factories, machines and displays of power. Official propaganda, dated.
Two animated tire commercials by German abstract pioneer Walter Ruttmann. Proof the avant-garde paid its bills with ads.