Well...it may be more accurate to say that the ones that survived are high art...that old celluloid has a tendency to turn to goo after a short time, and only the ones that were copied and re-copied survived. There are probably a few crap silents floating around today, but you're more likely to find one of the Canonical Classics rather than some piece of rubbish. The only bad silent movie I've ever seen is "Birth of a Nation."
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Date: 2009-08-19 04:47 am (UTC)