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>>1355 (OP) 
I never know that Biograph shot everything with 68mm film in their earliest years. It turns out a surprising number of early production companies used large format film because of Edison's patents on 35mm. Yet this is the first time I've seen any of it properly restored.
>A patent case victory in March 1902 allowed Biograph and other producers and distributors to use the less expensive 35 mm format without an Edison license, although Biograph did not completely phase out 68 mm production until autumn of 1903.
Too bad Biograph didn't use 68mm in all their productions. It was phased out years before Griffith started working for them. The DVDs of his early shorts don't look very good.

Anyway BFI says they've digitized 700+ early silent shorts to be put online this year commemorating Queen Victoria's 200th birthday. She was born in May so did this already happen? I don't think I've seen the restored shorts pop up anywhere.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/62-lff-victorian-moving-picture-show-imax

>>1356
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/victorian-film

>>1357
danke. I wish there were more.

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Best silent film face

>>1359
Yeah that scene with the old man giving her some bread is fantastic.

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I was reading about Lillian Gish giving many antiwar speeches in 1941. Her outspoken wrongthink eventually hurt her acting career. I'm disappointed I can't find any recordings or transcripts of her speeches, some of which were broadcast on the radio. HL Mencken observed at the time that newspapers avoided printing what she said. Does anyone have an idea where to find this material? Did she talk much about this period of her life in later interviews?

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Are there any silent films or footage dealing with the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918? I can't find anything.

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>>1362
Best I can do is this 1919 Italian film about the Black Death
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010559/

>>1363
That looks very interesting. Could you upload it here by any chance? It's evading me a bit.

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>>1364
Here's a torrent although the file is large (8GB)
https://rarbg.to/torrent/ru2gk95

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>>1365
>scene rips aren't so ba-

[End of Dump JW15 ~ 03/23/2020]

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>>1361
https://web.archive.org/web/20200806062409/https://lilliangish1893.com/against-war-executives-club-to-hear-a-talk-by-lillian-gish-chicago-tribune-1941/

Here is a brief Chicago Tribune article about Lillian Gish speaking to business leaders.
>repudiated her part in propaganda films that helped involve the United States in the world war
I believe this refers to a short called "Liberty Loan Appeal"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486704/

I imagine most people here interested in silent movies have seen this, but this series is essential for those who haven't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mo3Z8IkLnU

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow and Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius are worth watching too. I feel like I've also seen parts of Cinema Europe but don't remember much of it.

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A new seven-hour version of Abel Gance's Napoleon screens in Paris July 4 and 5 - that's about 90 minutes longer than Kevin Brownlow's version released through BFI a few years ago. I haven't been able to determine what footage Brownlow was missing and why--an interesting question considering he spent his life assembling footage for his project--though I assume the French Cinematique had a much larger budget for their restoration.

https://thefilmstage.com/the-7-hour-version-of-abel-gances-napoleon-a-restoration-16-years-in-the-making-will-premiere-this-summer/

I was building toward Napoleon by watching Gance's J'accuse, a rather underwhelming effort about a provincial love triangle interrupted by the horrors of WWI. I just can't take any more French stories centered around marital infidelity, especially involving a frumpy woman.

>>3232
I refuse to watch it until they restore the 9+ hours version.

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I finished Napoleon and it's undoubtedly a monumental film, much better than J'accuse, but I was surprised that the essence of Napoleon's life - his conquest of Europe - is not even included. After 5 and a half hours, Napoleon finally takes his first step into Italy.

The End.

The impressionistic triptych is beautiful regardless. I suppose Waterloo is a better film for coverage of the Napoleonic Wars. I've also got the Sacha Guitry's Napoleon from 1956 but I've never seen anyone recommend that one.