This scene from the 1928 silent film The Circus finds Charlie Chaplin locked inside of a lion’s cage. He had sought refuge in the cage after fleeing a donkey. The lion scenes took around 200 takes with a real lion and the faces of fear displayed by Chaplin were...
The Great Gabbo is a 1929 film starring Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, and Marjorie Kane. It tells the story of a ventriloquist that increasingly uses his dummy “Otto” as his only means of self-expression. This scene features the song “Every Now...
In this vintage video clip, various scenes of the Foxettes are shown rehearsing their dance routine on top of the Arlington Hotel in Washington D.C. This was filmed on September 12, 1929....
