The dawn of sound, 1927-1935.
The dawn of sound, 1927-1935. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 13 FIRST WORDS:
Florenz Ziegfeld's only film: a shopgirl dreams of the Follies, capped by an early Technicolor revue.
A young German soldier, inspired by his teacher's patriotic speeches, enlists in World War I. Lewis Milestone's 1930 anti-war epic.
An early talkie newsroom crime drama with Robert Armstrong and a young Carole Lombard.
A story of cheat, deception and possibly even murder. A 1930 drama from Tiffany Pictures, directed by Phil Rosen.
Clara Bow's first talkie: a party-loving college girl falls for her professor. Dorothy Arzner directs. Added color.
A 1930 Chesterfield musical comedy romance with Alice Day and Johnnie Walker, from the days when everybody burst into song.
Alice Day stars in this 1927 silent comedy short.
Yasujiro Ozu's early silent, a 1930 crime romance.
Buster Keaton plays a bookish scholar who has to turn athlete to win the girl. Stone Face meets track and field.
Music hall star Wee Georgie Wood leads a gang of kid troublemakers in this 1930 British comedy.
A 1929 drama and romance titled Woman to Woman.
A trailer for D.W. Griffith's 1930 talkie biopic, tracing Lincoln from country lawyer to the White House.
Vacationers at a beach resort tangle in romance and music. Includes a young Arthur Lake, before Dagwood. Early talkie in added color.
A hopeful college kicker gets football tips from Olympic legend Jim Thorpe in this 1932 comedy short.
Buster Keaton plays a street photographer who falls for a girl at a newsreel office. Chasing her means chasing film.
The dawn of sound, 1927-1935.
A 1929 comedy of mistaken identities and wife-swapping with Charlotte Greenwood, in a colorized print.
The dawn of sound, 1927-1935.
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 parade of animals leads piano-playing Krazy Kat to an arena where he and a Lion face off in a musical boxing duel. A 1930 Columbia cartoon.
A 1928 Japanese silent drama. Expect shadowy stylization and silent-film wit from another side of the world.
The dawn of sound, 1927-1935.
Monty Banks' train gags from his 1927 silent comedy Play Safe, boiled down to two reels of runaway rail chaos.
The dawn of sound, 1927-1935.
Buster Keaton's riverboat comedy, with a cyclone finale among the most famous stunts in film. 1928.
A trailer for The Blue Angel, the 1930 drama of a stern professor and a cabaret singer named Lola Lola.
A trailer for Lon Chaney's 1928 crime drama The Big City, with Marceline Day.
Carole Lombard and Jeanette Loff in a 1929 pre-Code drama about gambling and rackets, with Robert Armstrong and Hedda Hopper.
A 1928 film with a title that sounds like a call of the wild. That's about all the record says.
A tavern worker and a burgomaster's daughter wear elaborate disguises to win the men they love. Silent comedy in added color.
D. W. Griffith's 1928 romantic drama. It arrives with sound effects and a musical score on the cusp of talkies.
A 1928 exploitation melodrama warning parents about a teenage girl's slide into drinking and wild parties. Rate mature.
Clara Bow, a shopgirl with plenty of It, sets her sights on her boss. Gary Cooper pops up in a small role.
A guy mistaken for a pro racing driver keeps up the act to win the girl. Reginald Denny stars in this wacky 1927 silent comedy.
Clara Bow plays an American girl in France who tangles into a complicated romance with a young Frenchman, in this 1927 silent.
The first Philo Vance film. William Powell investigates the death of a blackmailing showgirl. Early pre-Code mystery from 1929.
Andy Clyde and Thelma Hill hit the links in a Mack Sennett comedy short from 1929. Early sound, golf gags.
Vaudeville performers fall in love in an early talkie that peeks backstage. Hal Skelly and Nancy Carroll. Added color.
Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland star in this 1928 romantic drama. A glamorous silent from the brink of talkies.
A gang moll and a mob boss plot revenge on a detective in a 1929 New York crime story. Crooks are not supposed to go below the deadline.
A restless young flier leaves home after a fight with his plane-maker father and finds adventure. A 1927 silent about air racing.
An American arms dealer plots a war in the Latin American republic of El Tovar. A 1928 silent adventure romance.
Czech director Gustav Machaty's sensual silent drama of seduction and its aftermath, four years before his scandalous Ecstasy.
Annie Callahan and Maggie Murphy feud across the alley while their kids fall in love. An excerpt from a 1927 comedy.
Buster Keaton plays a bookish student who tries every sport on campus to win a girl. Not a natural athlete, 1927.
Bessie Smith finds her man Jimmy has gone to her room with another woman, and sings W.C. Handy's blues about it. A 1929 short.
The Ingenues, an all-girl vaudeville band, play four numbers including Tiger Rag in this 1928 Vitaphone short.
Lionel Barrymore directs an early sound mystery with a shadowy killer on the loose. Fog, suspicion and primitive microphones.
An innocent young man escapes prison, and a detective hunts him until he realizes the truth. Robert Ames, 1929, with Willard Mack directing.
Two young men, one rich and one not, love the same woman and become WWI fighter pilots. Trailer for the 1927 Wings.