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The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick + Buster Keaton, 1928)
Jan
14
National Dress Up Your Pet Day
Buster (Buster Keaton) with Josephine the monkey on his shoulder. DPs: Reggie Lanning & Elgin Lessley.
– Now, see! You kill-a de monk!
– Pay him for that baboon… or I'll run you in!
After cameraman Buster accidentally knocks over a monkey, he has no choice but to take the sailor-suited simian along on his movie shoots.
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Escrime [Fencing] (Étienne-Jules Marey, 1890)
Jan
4
revolvers
A revolver to commemorate Samuel Colt's sale of 1 000 revolvers to butcher Captain Samuel Walker in 1847.
“Art and science encounter each other when they seek exactitude.”
– Étienne-Jules Marey
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang, 1924)
Jan
2
dragons
Siegfried (Paul Richter), seen from the back, bathing in the blood of the slain dragon. On his left shoulder blade, a linden leaf. DPs: Carl Hoffmann, Günther Rittau & Walter Ruttmann.
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À propos de Nice – point de vue documenté [À propos de Nice] (Boris Kaufman + Jean Vigo, 1930)
Jan
1
New Year's Day
Exuberant prostitutes, Jean Vigo (5th from the left), and some who appear to be men in drag, dance on a landing with confetti all around them. In the moving footage they can be seen high-kicking with increased vulgarity, the camera posed below them. DP: Boris Kaufman.
Confetti for New Year's Day.
“In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial… the last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution.”
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Die Puppe [The Doll] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
Dec
16
Stupid Toy Day
The doll (Ossi Oswalda) mischievously sticks out her tongue. DPs: Theodor Sparkuhl & Kurt Waschneck .
A ridiculous toy for Stupid Toy Day.
“She must have one complex mechanism!”
– Lancelot
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The Monkey Talks (Raoul Walsh, 1927)
Dec
14
Monkey Day
Jocko (Jacques Lerner) in embrace with his Olivette (Olive Borden). Amazingly, Lerner does not wear a mask; it's all the work of makeup craftsman Jack Pierce. DP: L. William O'Connell.
A monkey for (unofficial) Monkey Day.
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Speedy (Ted Wilde, 1928)
Dec
7
National Cotton Candy Day
Harold 'Speedy' Swift (Harold Lloyd ) and his gal Jane (Ann Christy) enjoy big bags of cotton candy at the fair. DP: Walter Lundin .
Cotton candy for (National) Cotton Candy Day. Gifs via Little Horror Shop on Tumblr.
“When a boy loses his job, buys a new suit and takes a girl to Coney Island, he's either insane or in love – – and there's not much difference.”
– title card
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Sioux Ghost Dance (William K.L. Dickson + William Heise 1894)
Dec
1
Hornbill Festival
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La plage 23 septembre 1971 + 18° (Paul-Armand Gette, 1971)
Sep
23
1971
A filmstrip with three stills. The first one is a shot from above. We seen a young woman's thighs in a short skirt. She's kneeling down in the sand. Someone's hand hovers above one of her knees. The both wear matching leather jackets. Still two and three are merely identical; a young blond woman looking sideways. Behing her tall dune grass. Image source
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Mit dem Motorrad über die Wolken [A Motorcycle Trip Among the Clouds] (Lothar Rübelt, 1926)
Jan
9
roadside picnic
A man and woman (Signorina Hansi) in 1920s motorcycle outfits enjoy a cheese-and-wine picnic at the Waldsee. DP: Franz Sochor.