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Yukon 
"Co-editor of FWFR book"

Posted - 01/17/2010 :  01:14:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Chapter 10 is now going through an overhaul -- thanks to an e-mail from the publisher's lawyer.
The origical plan was to have the chapter highlight obscure movies found on-line. Benj is going to make a webpage for these movies to make the book interactive. But there are rights issues, so the only thing the lawyer said we can use that is legally safe is any movie made before 1924.
(This is sad news because it means we have to drop them from the book. But who knows, if this book is a success and there is a sequel, we may run an "Obscure movie" section without links, that way we can have reviews for Bambi Meets Godzilla and How to Build An Igloo.)


This posed a big problem because it's hard to find a movie on-line made before 1924 that is also popular on FWFR. The Execution of Mary Stuart and Boxing Cats. Prof Welton had lots of great reviews.
But some other films only had one or two. For each movie we list in the book, we need to run four reviews with it.
So if anyone wants to improve their chances of getting in the book, please take a look at the following films and start writing. Your help is greatly appreciated by Benj and I.


ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke25rh_8veM
The classic Lewis Carroll story sees Alice follow a rabbit down a tunnel and enters a magical world. Time: eight minutes.

ANNIE OAKLEY (1894)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrRBKKXotM&feature=related
Legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley shows off her shooting skills by blasting glass balls and other objects. Time: twenty-five seconds.

THE BARBERSHOP (1894)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRX_nJ2f3c
In this silent film by the Edison Manufacturing Company, a man gets a shave in a barbershop while two customers wait and chat

THE BOYS THINK THEY HAVE ONE ON FOXY GRANDPA, BUT HE FOOLS THEM (1902)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WejQY1kAjQ

CATTLE DRIVEN TO SLAUGHTER (1897)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjPL6EJUfa8
A herd of cattle go through the stockyards on the way to a slaughter house. Time: thirty seconds.


A CHESS DISPUTE (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2NUQav88yo
Two men in a restaurant get into a fight over a game of chess. The skirmish is broken up by a waiter. Time: one minute.

THE COCK FIGHT (1894)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne1euamkoqE
Two roosters fight each other. Time: forty seconds.

A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSF7p_DAAxw
A rich business man tries to corner the world wheat market. The price of bread skyrockets, driving the grain producers towards poverty.

THE DANCING SKELETON (1897)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBQpmWZ3ckg
A skeleton dances as various bones fall off the body and magically reattach themselves. Time: forty-five seconds.

DEMOLISHING AND BUILDING UP THE STAR THEATRE (1901)
http://mais.uol.com.br/view/x128ls2g2g4v/demolishing-and-building-up-star-theatre-0402E4990366
Using time-lapses photography, a theatre in New York is completely dismantled and torn down. Tome One minute forty-five seconds

THE DOG FACTORY (1904)
http://www.veoh.com/browse/movies/sort/title#watch%3De925086eECnG5E
A butcher runs a machine called the Patent Dog Transformator. Dogs are dropped into the machine and transformed into sausage. The sausage is put in the machine and live dogs are made.

DRIVING CATTLE TO PASTURE (1904)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lykybVed7Xc
Cowboys round up and move a herd of cattle. Time: one minute.

FUN IN A BAKERY SHOP (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u20lu6NAtPU
A baker plays with dough, sculpts it into funny faces and throws it at another baker. Time: one minute thirty-eight seconds.

THE GAY SHOE CLERK (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2X_BZpnWFc
Two women enter a store. The salesman places a shoe on one of the woman and then starts kissing her. The other woman then starts hitting the salesman with an umbrella. Time: one minute, thirty seconds.

GLENROY BROTHERS COMIC BOXING (1894)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sNd0dkBAjg&feature=related

HOW THE FRENCH NOBLEMAN GOT A WIFE THROUGH THE NEW YORK HERALD PERSONAL COLUMNS (1904)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOhlARBlzAs
A French nobleman places an ad announcing any woman who wants to get married should meet him the next day at 10 a.m. A dozen women show up and chase him around the countryside.

JAPANESE ACROBATS (1904)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CP8YA3A0QE
One Japanese acrobat lays on the floor and uses his feet to flip and turn the other acrobat. Time: one minute forty seven seconds.

LIFE OF AN AMERICAN FIREFIGHTER (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4C0gJ7BnLc&feature=related
Firefighters rush into a burning building and save a mother and her toddler. Time: six minutes.

LOVE IN A HAMMOCK (1901)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8PlfHNTHVQ
A man and woman kiss and hug while in a hammock unaware of the two mischievous boys behind them. Time: one minute.

NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922)
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/travel_and_culture/watch/v17495787G8tg573F#
Considered cinema�s first full-length feature documentary, this film follows one year in the life of an Eskimo named Nanook as he hunts and plays in the Canadian Arctic.

NEW YORK CITY GHETTO FISH MARKET (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUvSIebZuw&feature=related
People explore the stalls of a turn-of-the-century fish market in New York City. Time: two minutes.

PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EIFFEL TOWER (1900)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuLmhk3ViX8
Men and women walk around the base of the tower. The camera then pans up and down to show the height and beauty of the tower. Time: one minute thirty seconds.

A PILLOW FIGHT (1897) (I used the reviews from New Pillow Fight 1897)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVvkDY6Fp8M&feature=related
Four teenage girls jump out of their beds and start to have a pillow fight. The pillows break open and feathers fly everywhere. Time: twenty-seven seconds.

TRAPEZE DISROBING ACT (1901)
A female trapeze artist starts taking off her clothes as two men from the balcony cheer her on. Time: two minutes twenty-one seconds.

UNCLE JOSH AT THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW (1902)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHQPUlB6SRM

WHAT HAPPENED ON TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK CITY (1901)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZsPk6Qq4TY&feature=fvw
People walk along a New York City street. The film ends with a woman in a dress stepping on a sidewalk grate and a gust of wind blows her dress up. Time: One minute twenty seconds.

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (1910)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1MMaXcEI98
This silent, short B&W version of Frank L. Baum�s novel was made almost three decades before Judy Garland�s more famous Oz movie was made. Time: Thirteen minutes

WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT (1903?????????????) Using reviews from film The Wright Brothershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-CvkEUSAO4&feature=related
Orville and Wilbur Wright demonstrate their new flying machine. Time: one minute thirty seconds.


w22dheartlivie 
"Kitty Lover"

Posted - 01/17/2010 :  03:29:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Just out of curiosity, how would one enter a review for a film that is not listed here nor can be found on IMDb? Oh, and have you checked the internet archives? They tend to have silent films.

Edited by - w22dheartlivie on 01/17/2010 03:32:44
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Yukon 
"Co-editor of FWFR book"

Posted - 01/17/2010 :  03:57:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If the film isn't listed on IMDB, then it can't be listed on FWFR.com. That's one of the rules of this site.

You have to submit info to IMDB to get them to list the film, then get Benj to add it to FWFR.com

I think a few people have done ths before.
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w22dheartlivie 
"Kitty Lover"

Posted - 01/17/2010 :  04:54:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ack! Some of those in the list aren't on IMDb!!
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[matt] 
"Cinemattic."

Posted - 01/17/2010 :  13:10:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

I've previously submitted a couple of films to IMDb to get them on fwfr.

It's not too difficult and can be done here.

Don't worry about adding every detail the form asks for (e.g. production company, gross etc.) just fill in all the info you can find online.

Edited by - [matt] on 01/17/2010 13:12:00
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randall 
"I like to watch."

Posted - 01/17/2010 :  14:14:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Also, once it's on IMDb, you don't have to ask benj any more: you can add to the fwfr database by yourself.

Edited by - randall on 01/17/2010 14:14:35
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aahaa, muahaha 
"Optimistic altruist, incurable romantic"

Posted - 01/17/2010 :  18:18:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am taking the liberty of embedding fwfr links in the title for the films already available here so as to make it easy to submit reviews.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke25rh_8veM
The classic Lewis Carroll story sees Alice follow a rabbit down a tunnel and enters a magical world. Time: eight minutes.

ANNIE OAKLEY (1894)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrRBKKXotM&feature=related
Legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley shows off her shooting skills by blasting glass balls and other objects. Time: twenty-five seconds.

THE BARBERSHOP (1894)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRX_nJ2f3c
In this silent film by the Edison Manufacturing Company, a man gets a shave in a barbershop while two customers wait and chat

THE BOYS THINK THEY HAVE ONE ON FOXY GRANDPA, BUT HE FOOLS THEM (1902)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WejQY1kAjQ

CATTLE DRIVEN TO SLAUGHTER (1897)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjPL6EJUfa8
A herd of cattle go through the stockyards on the way to a slaughter house. Time: thirty seconds.


A CHESS DISPUTE (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2NUQav88yo
Two men in a restaurant get into a fight over a game of chess. The skirmish is broken up by a waiter. Time: one minute.

THE COCK FIGHT (1894)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne1euamkoqE
Two roosters fight each other. Time: forty seconds.

A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSF7p_DAAxw
A rich business man tries to corner the world wheat market. The price of bread skyrockets, driving the grain producers towards poverty.

THE DANCING SKELETON (1897)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBQpmWZ3ckg
A skeleton dances as various bones fall off the body and magically reattach themselves. Time: forty-five seconds.

DEMOLISHING AND BUILDING UP THE STAR THEATRE (1901)
http://mais.uol.com.br/view/x128ls2g2g4v/demolishing-and-building-up-star-theatre-0402E4990366
Using time-lapses photography, a theatre in New York is completely dismantled and torn down. Tome One minute forty-five seconds

THE DOG FACTORY (1904)
http://www.veoh.com/browse/movies/sort/title#watch%3De925086eECnG5E
A butcher runs a machine called the Patent Dog Transformator. Dogs are dropped into the machine and transformed into sausage. The sausage is put in the machine and live dogs are made.

DRIVING CATTLE TO PASTURE (1904)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lykybVed7Xc
Cowboys round up and move a herd of cattle. Time: one minute.
Listed as Driving Cows to Pasture (1903) on FWFR - assuming both are same.


FUN IN A BAKERY SHOP (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u20lu6NAtPU
A baker plays with dough, sculpts it into funny faces and throws it at another baker. Time: one minute thirty-eight seconds.

THE GAY SHOE CLERK (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2X_BZpnWFc
Two women enter a store. The salesman places a shoe on one of the woman and then starts kissing her. The other woman then starts hitting the salesman with an umbrella. Time: one minute, thirty seconds.

GLENROY BROTHERS COMIC BOXING (1894)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sNd0dkBAjg&feature=related

HOW THE FRENCH NOBLEMAN GOT A WIFE THROUGH THE NEW YORK HERALD PERSONAL COLUMNS (1904)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOhlARBlzAs
A French nobleman places an ad announcing any woman who wants to get married should meet him the next day at 10 a.m. A dozen women show up and chase him around the countryside.

JAPANESE ACROBATS (1904)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CP8YA3A0QE
One Japanese acrobat lays on the floor and uses his feet to flip and turn the other acrobat. Time: one minute forty seven seconds.

LIFE OF AN AMERICAN FIREFIGHTER (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4C0gJ7BnLc&feature=related
Firefighters rush into a burning building and save a mother and her toddler. Time: six minutes.
Listed as Life of an American Fireman (1903) on FWFR & IMDB - assuming both are same.

LOVE IN A HAMMOCK (1901)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8PlfHNTHVQ
A man and woman kiss and hug while in a hammock unaware of the two mischievous boys behind them. Time: one minute.
I have linked to Making Love in a Hammock (1897) on FWFR though these are different. Yukon, is it okay?

NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922)
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/travel_and_culture/watch/v17495787G8tg573F#
Considered cinema�s first full-length feature documentary, this film follows one year in the life of an Eskimo named Nanook as he hunts and plays in the Canadian Arctic.

NEW YORK CITY GHETTO FISH MARKET (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUvSIebZuw&feature=related
People explore the stalls of a turn-of-the-century fish market in New York City. Time: two minutes.

PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EIFFEL TOWER (1900)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuLmhk3ViX8
Men and women walk around the base of the tower. The camera then pans up and down to show the height and beauty of the tower. Time: one minute thirty seconds.
Listed as Panorama of Eiffel Tower (1900) on FWFR - assuming both are same.

A PILLOW FIGHT (1897) (I used the reviews from New Pillow Fight 1897)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVvkDY6Fp8M&feature=related
Four teenage girls jump out of their beds and start to have a pillow fight. The pillows break open and feathers fly everywhere. Time: twenty-seven seconds.

TRAPEZE DISROBING ACT (1901)
A female trapeze artist starts taking off her clothes as two men from the balcony cheer her on. Time: two minutes twenty-one seconds.

UNCLE JOSH AT THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW (1902)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHQPUlB6SRM

WHAT HAPPENED ON TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK CITY (1901)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZsPk6Qq4TY&feature=fvw
People walk along a New York City street. The film ends with a woman in a dress stepping on a sidewalk grate and a gust of wind blows her dress up. Time: One minute twenty seconds.

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (1910)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1MMaXcEI98
This silent, short B&W version of Frank L. Baum�s novel was made almost three decades before Judy Garland�s more famous Oz movie was made. Time: Thirteen minutes

WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT (1903?????????????) Using reviews from film The Wright Brothershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-CvkEUSAO4&feature=related
Orville and Wilbur Wright demonstrate their new flying machine. Time: one minute thirty seconds.

So, all the films are available on FWFR as well, including this proxy for WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT (1903?????????????) which albeit is a 1997 film.
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Yukon 
"Co-editor of FWFR book"

Posted - 01/17/2010 :  21:20:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks Aahaa!

And yes, I forgot to mention that for the film Love in a Hammock, I'm using reviews for Making Love in a Hammock.
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