Gaslight Follies

  • Documentary
9/28/1945
110
NR

Time Marches Back!

Four-part documentary (each part of which was also available as a short subject) relating to films and other customs of the 1910s and 1920s.

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      • Geronimo1967

        This starts off as a wonderful excuse to indulge in some cinema nostalgia but sadly as it stops reflecting the stories of the past and starts presenting the dramas to us directly, it rather falls off a cliff. The opening section of this quartered feature illustrates some of the stars of the silent screen - some of the most unlikely and some of the most famous before taking us on quite an interesting and informative look through some of the early newsreels that deal with some fairly embryonic science and some of the world's great and good. The third and fourth parts are still in the same vein, but the Victorian Melodrama "the Drunkard" must have (I hope) looked far better on stage and finally a rehash of "East Lynne" - a silent movie made in...

        November 22, 2023

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