Strange and weird films from long ago

[if6wasnin9]

Rosemary's Baby was weird. So was Edgar Allan Poe's The Mask of Red Death (I think). TB was very prominent during Poe's time and that's what it's about.

 

[Shevek]

Canada's National Film Board had some wild stuff. I remember one about two neighbours escalating a fight, but it was done in stop motion, so they seemed to be just standing but sliding around. Come to think of it, they were standing so uniformly straight that they may have been manikins.
There is also "Shangrila," about an aircraft crash accidentally finding a hidden valley of great peace and harmony.

 

[velociraptor]

Canada's National Film Board

Oh, they put out some great stuff.

The Railrodder

Check out The Railrodder with Buster Keaton. Genius.

 

[Shevek]

Oh, they put out some great stuff.

The Railrodder

Check out The Railrodder with Buster Keaton. Genius.

I found it completely pointless. Maybe that's considered art.

 

[velociraptor]

I found it completely pointless. Maybe that's considered art.

Not everything has to have a point. Unless it's a weapon where a pointy end is useful.

I enjoyed the absurdity of it.

 

[Shevek]

Not everything has to have a point. Unless it's a weapon where a pointy end is useful.

I enjoyed the absurdity of it.

I thought it was a sensible way to take an interesting journey, but Buster seemed to be completely oblivious to the novelty. I thought it might have been a way to give him an income boost after his stunting days were done.

 

[Shevek]

I have here a six DVD set of "Aviation 20 exciting films from the first flights to the edge of space" selected from the US national archives. I'm up to 1926 now, and the whole third disk has not a single flight, just scenes of a Navy base and school, in silent black and white.