The Oyster Princess is a grotesque comedy presented in 4 acts about an American millionaire’s spoiled daughter’s marriage that just doesn’t go as planned. There is confusion and controversy, but also an amazing dance scene. It was released in 1919 and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This was among his more famous, which earned fame from his intangible use of style and sophistication in this movie among others. The term for his style was later dubbed “The Lubitsch Touch”.
Features a jazz music score compiled by Euterpe Jones.
Another movie about the American civil war by D.W.Griffith.
This movie directed by D.W. Griffith it’s a story about Klu KluK Clan, it was extremely controversial at that time..
Lillian Gish is the star of this drama, about a blockhouse under siege by marauding Indians, until the cavalry arrives at the nick of time. Griffith believed this to be the best film he had done up to that time, and it was one of his most popular two-reelers, as well as one that pointed the way towards the large spic productions like The Birth of a Nation, that would follow.
An exciting western adventure story and drama in one. The orphaned daughter (Blanche Sweet) of a farmer is raised by a step-father who subsequently seeks to marry her. She marries another man instead, and goes west with a wagon train with the man she really loves (Charles H. West) and their infant daughter. The wagon train is attacked by Indians and the family is separated — after the cavalry has routed the Indians, the father searches for his wife and daughter and finds them alive, beneath the bodies of the homesteaders who were protecting them.
Directed by Stuart Paton the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) was the first adaptation of Jules Verne noel.
The film depicts a strike in 1903 by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, and their subsequent suppression. The film is most famous for a sequence near the end in which the violent putting down of the strike is cross-cut with footage of cattle being slaughtered, although there are several other points in the movie where animals are used as metaphors for the conditions of various individuals. Another theme in the film is collectivism in opposition to individualism which was viewed as a convention of western film. Collective efforts and collectivization of characters were central to both Strike and Battleship Potemkin.
