📝 Plot: In colonial Indochina, Tao, a mysterious figure posing as a dragon-like spirit, spreads fear to control oil-rich territories. Soun, the rightful heir, resists his takeover with the help of administrator Jacques Chauvry. Their struggle unfolds across continents in a silent serial filled with deception, pursuit, sabotage, and resistance against exploitation and manipulation.

#Tao #Adventure #Drama #Mystery #ColonialStory #SilentFilm #FrenchCinema #SerialFilm #ClassicCinema

Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)

May

03

A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering.

and May 4.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆

📝 Plot: In a Parisian fashion house, a young mannequin becomes entangled in a web of jealousy, ambition, and romantic rivalry between a millionaire admirer and a false friend. As tensions rise within the world of haute couture, love and deception collide, exposing fragile relationships and social ambition in 1920s high society.

#RueDeLaPaix #SilentFilm #Drama #Romance #FrenchCinema #FashionWorld #Jealousy #ClassicFilm #1920s

🎬 Rue de la paix (1927)

Subtitles available:
🇬🇧 English

⬇️ Download https://app.box.com/s/7m23piwnkyubn2gkp8kwqyjs090762p9

🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198988/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
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#RueDeLaPaix #ComedyDrama #SilentFilm #FrenchCinema #HenriDiamantBerger #Fashion #Romance #Jealousy #ClassicCinema

Also, here’s all of the #SilentFilm, Transitional sound film and/or films related to #SilentFilm and Transitional sound films on the TCM schedule for May that I could see #TCMParty #PaulRobeson #comedy #SilentSundayNights #horror
Sadly no #SilentFilm or transitional sound film on the TCM schedule this week until next week’s #SilentSundayNights when they’ll be showing 3 comedy shorts made by Jasper and Charles Parrott AKA Charley Chase
#TCMParty #CharlesParrott #JasperParrott #comedy #CharleyChase
Jobyna Ralston and Harold Lloyd in “Girl Shy” (1924)
#TCMParty #SilentSundayNights #GirlShy #HaroldLloyd #JobynaRalston #SilentFilm
Posters for “Girl Shy” from The USA, Sweden and Denmark
#TCMParty #SilentSundayNights #GirlShy #HaroldLloyd #SilentFilm
Bebe Daniels and Harold Lloyd in “Bashful” (1917)
#TCMParty #SilentSundayNights #Bashful #BebeDaniels #HaroldLloyd #SilentFilm