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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "anti-colonialism" (3)

Attack on a China Mission

James Williamson (director)
Williamson (production)

Language: Silent, released in Nov 1900
Minutes: 1

A short reenactment of a Boxer attack. Full description from BFI at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/520615/index.html

Featured elements:

: action; anti-colonialism; armed conflict; China; extended incident; historical drama; home invasion; rescue; yellow peril

How A British Bulldog Saved The Union Jack

Walturdaw (production)

Language: Silent, released in Sep 1906
Minutes: 9

It's the golden rule of American vaudeville and British music halls: when your act is doing badly on stage, especially if you've got zero talent, just start waving the flag - because then no one would dare boo you. Here we see that rule's early migration from stage to screen.

Featured elements:

: action; animal act; anti-colonialism; armed conflict; emblematic shot; ethnic stereotype; goofs; patriotism; South Africa; white supremacy

The Spiders (Serial)

Fritz Lang (director/writer)
Karl Freund (cinematographer)
Carl de Vogt (lead)
Georg John (lead)
Lil Dagover (lead)
Ressel Orla (lead)
Erich Pommer (producer)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Oct 1919

While in hot pursuit of conspicuous leisure, a delusional elite spots a bottle trashed in the sea. For no apparent reason, he takes it home and struggles to get to the urgent message he has convinced himself is inside (not wanting to simply break the valuable trashy bottle). He claims the bottle contained an urgent message (although its pedantry seems quite incongruent with the circumstances under which it was purportedly written). The message tells of “unbelievable treasures” and a gold mine “which appears to be inexhaustible” (claims that modern viewers will be familiar with from their encounters with the bottle's cyber-twin: scam spam). When he spins this tale to his fellow elites at Club Inbreeders, it gets picked up by an agent of a diabolical gullible mastermind, and leads to an intensely silly spectacle of competing blundering murderous international thieves - with one posing as White Savior - that modern viewers will be familiar with from their encounters with its political-twin: the new “Cold War”.

Featured elements:

: addiction; adventure; anti-colonialism; chase; Chinatown; corruption; cowboys; crime; criminal mastermind; ethnic stereotype; femme fatale; fighting; flashback; gambling; gangs; heroic defender; home invasion; hypnosis; lady or gentleman thief; melodrama; message in a bottle; religion; rescue; revenge; servitude; torture; treachery; unrequited love; white savior; yellow peril

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