Charlie Chaplin's First Movie
Charlie Chaplin's first movie was called "Making a Living." It premiered on February 2nd of 1914. It's about 8 minutes long. Like all movies at that time it was a silent movie. Back then they played music along with the movie but they did not have the technology to record a soundtrack that went with the movie (ie no dialog.) It would be more than 13 years later before Al Jolson would become the first person to speak in a movie in 1927's The Jazz Singer. He said "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothing yet." These first movie words were actually not uttered till about half way through the film.
Anyhoo enough about "Talkies" (as they first called movies with talking in them.) Back to the subject at hands, suckers. Charlie Chaplin. I find it fascinating to watch this film and think about how it was "cutting edge" entertainment at the time. I also try to imagine what they would think if they could go ahead 93 years ahead to the future in 2007 and see that some lunatic like me was posting their film on his "blog" on this thing called the internet... Well. These are just the kinds of things I like to think about. I think it's hard to remember that everything was the present when it was happening. Well obviously right? But we have a tendency to look back at the past and place it within our own context and to not really think about it as being the present at that time. The most advanced modern age. Most likely folks 93 years from now will look back at the things we do now and think them quite quaint... Assuming, of course, that people still exist in the year 2100.
Watch this crazy biz. The music is pretty fly innit? Actually that gets me on to another topic. In my view film isn't an art form that ages very well. Compare for example the watchability of movies from the 60s compared to the listenability of music from the 60s? There's something about film that makes it "date" much faster than music. And how about them ol' words? The written word can cut through all the insanity of existence the same way it did 1000 years previous. Are the films of today going to stand up in that same way to be able to make sense to future generations? I'm not so sure.
Now.... Seriously, I'm done ranting. Just watch it:
Anyhoo enough about "Talkies" (as they first called movies with talking in them.) Back to the subject at hands, suckers. Charlie Chaplin. I find it fascinating to watch this film and think about how it was "cutting edge" entertainment at the time. I also try to imagine what they would think if they could go ahead 93 years ahead to the future in 2007 and see that some lunatic like me was posting their film on his "blog" on this thing called the internet... Well. These are just the kinds of things I like to think about. I think it's hard to remember that everything was the present when it was happening. Well obviously right? But we have a tendency to look back at the past and place it within our own context and to not really think about it as being the present at that time. The most advanced modern age. Most likely folks 93 years from now will look back at the things we do now and think them quite quaint... Assuming, of course, that people still exist in the year 2100.
Watch this crazy biz. The music is pretty fly innit? Actually that gets me on to another topic. In my view film isn't an art form that ages very well. Compare for example the watchability of movies from the 60s compared to the listenability of music from the 60s? There's something about film that makes it "date" much faster than music. And how about them ol' words? The written word can cut through all the insanity of existence the same way it did 1000 years previous. Are the films of today going to stand up in that same way to be able to make sense to future generations? I'm not so sure.
Now.... Seriously, I'm done ranting. Just watch it:
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that's one of the tastier rambles i've eaten today. mmm delicious!
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