Now lost, Paul Wegener's The Pied Piper of Hamlin contained rats animated by Lotte Reiniger (The Adventures of Prince Achmed). #SilentMovie #LostFilms #cinemastodon

Paul Leni's second US film was The Chinses Parrot, now lost. #LostFilms #SilentMovie

Still working on my silent film music article and thinking of what accompanists I’d like to have heard play for a movie back in the 1910s or 20s. Alura Mack playing Oscar Micheaux’s Birthright (1924/25). Rosa Rio playing London after Midnight (1927), is tempting. Theda Bara’s 1917 Cleopatra, music by Mildred Fitzpatrick or Edith Lang. #SilentFilm #FilmMusic #LostFilms

Lost Poverty Row Films That Actually Sound Kinda Good: WHAT PRICE DECENCY? (1933) from Equitable Pictures. The price is clearly not that of admission, since we’ve got Dorothy Burgess and those legs on every publicity photo for this one. She’s a “woman with a tainted past” who moves to the tropics, marries a not-so-nice pearl trader, then falls for another man.  Feels like the plot of most of those “tropic-set” films of this era. #precode #OldHollywood #classichollywood #lostfilms

Scene from Paul Wegener's lost film, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. #SilentMovies #LostFilms #ClassicFilm #cinemastodon

CELLULOID GHOSTS - our Top Ten lost films. #cinemastodon #LostFilms #SilentMovies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHBfbBp8hN8&list=PL1DHoBtqR2tPL5cwPBhy7ZNGoCZ7IIRyr&index=20

On December 3, 1927 London After Midnight debuted in the United States. Here's some original Lon Chaney art on a torn-out book page to celebrate!
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#LondonAfterMidnight #LonChaney #SilentFilms #LostFilms #MGMVaultFire #Horror #HorrorArt #HorrorCommunity #FanArt #MastoArt #ClassicFilm #Art #Drawing #MovieHistory

Lost Poverty Row Films That Actually Sound Kinda Good: IS THERE JUSTICE? (1931), another from Sono Art-World Wide. Why does this "thrill-o-drama" have "everything the public wants", you may ask? Well, here's a one-sentence description of the plot: "The brother of a woman who died in jail seeks revenge on the district attorney by getting hold of a photograph of his daughter dancing on a table on her underwear." #lostfilms #povertyrow #OldHollywood

The poster for F. W. Murnau's Der Januskopf, based on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Now, sadly, lost. #ClassicFilm #SilentMovie #LostFilms

Lost Poverty Row Films That Actually Sound Kinda Good: COCK O’ THE WALK (1930) from Sono Art-World Wide and producer James “Covered Wagon” Cruze.  Austrian Joseph Schildkraut plays an Argentinian café violinist who is pimped out by Myrna Loy to rich women- and ends up saving a suicidal woman by proposing marriage to her. This sounds insane and I am heartbroken this film is among the lost. #lostfilms #povertyrow #OldHollywood