Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film - 08 Comedy

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film - 08 Comedy - A Serious Business

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Episode 8 of 13.
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Four great comedians of early silent comedy, Harry Langdon, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin. Among those interviewed are Hal Roach, director Frank Capra, and editor William Hornbeck.
Hollywood learned very early how to make people laugh. Comedy was king, and battling for the throne were stars like Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon and Charlie Chaplin. In a purely visual medium, their comedy was a work of genius. Interviews include Hal Roach, Sr., Jackie Coogan, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

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@voyaristika5673 Ай бұрын

Why don't these videos have more views? All these pioneer's voices in one series are priceless. Thank you for making them available.

@paulconnell893 Жыл бұрын

'The Kid'... floods of tears right now

@RubyofTrinity 2 жыл бұрын

"Orphanage" indeed. Chaplin grew up in the WORK HOUSE. He was one of the last generations to do so. Man. People were hardcore back then.

@craigtalbott731 2 жыл бұрын

“Ladies and Gentlemen: In spite of everything our enemies say, first off I want to tell you that our comedies are not to be laughed at!” - Samuel Goldwyn

@Grlsinger47 10 жыл бұрын

@ Jonas U...Keaton shot at 0:52 is from "The Goat" (1921)

@Nigelsmom2136 2 ай бұрын

Buster Keaton was brilliant.

@bostonblackie9503 3 жыл бұрын

Great documentary but wish they had been able to run the films at the speed which they had originally been seen. It makes all the difference!

@classiclife7204 3 жыл бұрын

The old comedies were mostly run at higher speed for added comic effect, particularly the Sennett-produced ones.

@awsome1605 Жыл бұрын

@@classiclife7204 This is true, the practice is known as undercranking. Old comedies frequently used this to heighten the speed of jokes. Many times when say Chaplin is running at a frantic pace it is because it was cranked at 14fps and projected at 24fps, giving it a quicker speed which was wholly intentional.

@classiclife7204 3 жыл бұрын

About the only time this documentary was seriously wrong about something: the comic "genius" of Harry Langdon. Let's be clear: they'd already done 30 minutes on Fatty Arbuckle, who was the REAL 4th genius of silent comedy. And they'd already mentioned Laurel and Hardy elsewhere as well (and they were mostly post-silent comedy, anyway). So, Langdon lucked out here. He's basically Chaplin without the timing. His inferiority is so evident when compared to the others that I'm surprised Brownlow stuck with the idea. Oh well - I do recommend the others, of course.

@alexvokoun9272 2 жыл бұрын

I think the idea was so show three guys who actually were geniuses and turned into legends, while Langdon was essentially a one hit wonder. So it was supposed to show the other side of the spectrum. But Youre right, the fourth genius was definitely Fatty Arbuckle.

@awsome1605 Жыл бұрын

I agree that Arbuckle should be represented but Brownlow may be taking cues from James Agee's essay "Comedy's Greatest Era" which initially revived interest in silent comedians and listed Langdon as the fourth greatest.

@hornybodhisattva 5 жыл бұрын

What about fatty arbucle

@bertrandgerard1723 3 жыл бұрын

Aux éditeurs français ou à la tv française, please, le doublage existe en français

@SrAJones-ns7sx 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the Lloyd estate was stingy with footage; much better film they could've showed with him. Chaplin and Keaton snippets were much better and varied

@meeeka 7 ай бұрын

He's not American but love Max Linder.

@LilLuNLove 2 жыл бұрын

where is episode 7

@Grlsinger47 10 жыл бұрын

My order of preference is : 1) Buster Keaton, 2) Charlie Chaplin, 3) Harold Lloyd. I tried to watch a Harry Langdon movie, but I didn't find him funny and it bored me so badly that I couldn't watch it all the way through .

@classiclife7204 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they'd already had to cover Arbuckle elsewhere, re: the scandal, so they couldn't cover him twice. So they dredged up this otherwise forgotten guy, Langdon - whom, by the way, I'd never heard of until I saw this series years ago, and I consider myself pretty well-educated in film. I would've advised Brownlow to have spent the minutes devoted to Langdon on the other 3 instead, particularly Chaplin, who could've had a whole hour-long examination, frankly.

@melissacooper4282 2 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing Harry Langdon co-star with Oliver Hardy in Zenobia. It was mediocre at best because Oliver Hardy and Harry Langdon didn't have that same chemistry as when Hardy worked with Stan Laurel.

@SrAJones-ns7sx 2 жыл бұрын

Arbuckle ANYTIME before Langdon....

@classiclife7204 2 жыл бұрын

@Lawrence Windrush I bet it's terrific. I'll look that up, thanks!

@marcdelente2456 Жыл бұрын

Mack sennette disait tout doit avoir un rytme fou sinon je m ennui . Quand le parlant arrivera en 1929 progressivement il sera obligé de ralentir le rytme de ce comédies en 1936 il revendra ces studios. Comme certains acteurs quelques soit le genres vont sombré dans l anonymat Ceci dit dans ce document ont retrouvé beaucoups de scènes qui ont été monté sur le film de robert yougsont la grande époque. Sinon quand blinder vien retrouvé chaplin a Hollywood ça carrière est fini en france mais a Hollywood n ont plus il ce suicider avec ça femme. Un jour j'ai fait un festival sur le comique et maud Est venu elle ne ma rien sur son père . Et je l'ai laissé tranquille je pense que ça a du la blessé .