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 clip from the 1927 film The Jazz Singer , Al Jolson sings “Dirty Hands, Dirty Face” for the crowd at Coffee Dan’s restaurant. The film tells the story of Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson), a young man from a devout Jewish family who defies...
This clip from the 1927 French film La Revue Des Revues features dancer, singer, and actress Josephine Baker. The story follows Paris nightlife as it was in 1927. The Jazz Age was in full swing at the time and Baker was the highest-paid entertainer in Europe. The film...
