Silent Film Gifs
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The Wolf of Wall Street - Rowland V. Lee (1929)
The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) is today believed to be a lost film. The only part of the movie known to still exist is this brief montage sequence created by Slavko Vorkapić.
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Napoléon - Abel Gance (1927)
Director Abel Gance included a triptych sequence in 'Napoléon' (1927) that needed three screens to be properly projected
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Champagne - Alfred Hitchcock (1928)
Hitchcock achieved this shot in 'Champagne' (1928) by using an over-sized glass with a lens placed in the bottom
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Eternal Love - Ernst Lubitsch (1929)
John Barrymore and Camilla Horn in Eternal Love (1929), the final silent movie directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and the final silent role for Barrymore. It was believed to be a lost film until a print was found in the film collection of Mary Pickford.
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The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
Renée Falconetti delivered what is considered one of cinema's greatest performances in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), and then never appeared in another movie.
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Hypocrites, Lois Weber (1915)
"Hypocrites, also known as The Hypocrites and The Naked Truth, is a 1915 silent drama film written and directed by Lois Weber. The film contains several full nude scenes, and is said to include the first appearance of full frontal nudity in a non-pornographic film by an American actress. The film is regarded as anticlerical, and the nudity was justified by its religious context."
