London After Midnight
Here's the sixth of ten Goofy Movies narrated by a Smith called Pete. Like most of them, it starts out with a miked newsreel, then moves into a collection of clips from silent movies, stitched together into a nonsensical story by Pete's snarky voice-over.
It has very little to do with the way silent movies are put together (although I recently looked at a French film from 1924, THE MASKED LADY that made as little sense). However, the clips that were used in these burlesques were drawn from actual movies, and sometimes that's all that survives of them. In this case, I noticed a clip that is clearly from LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, perhaps the second most famous lost silent movie; if the late Forrest J. Ackerman were the authority, it was the worst loss to cinephiles, as he spent decades telling the readers of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND,
A decade or so, there was a clever 'reconstruction' of he film using production stills and the shooting script. I'm sure that some one is ready to go and add these three seconds. Certainly, every time they find another clip from METROPOLIS, they add it in, despite the quality.
It has very little to do with the way silent movies are put together (although I recently looked at a French film from 1924, THE MASKED LADY that made as little sense). However, the clips that were used in these burlesques were drawn from actual movies, and sometimes that's all that survives of them. In this case, I noticed a clip that is clearly from LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, perhaps the second most famous lost silent movie; if the late Forrest J. Ackerman were the authority, it was the worst loss to cinephiles, as he spent decades telling the readers of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND,
A decade or so, there was a clever 'reconstruction' of he film using production stills and the shooting script. I'm sure that some one is ready to go and add these three seconds. Certainly, every time they find another clip from METROPOLIS, they add it in, despite the quality.
- boblipton
- Nov 1, 2019