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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "carnival" (3)

In Love With The Bearded Woman (Amoureux de la Femme à Barbe)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Aug 1909
Minutes: 6

This is not Max, the dapper and loveable upper-class twit, but appears to be the same schoolboy in His First Cigar (same uniform and still living with parents), who now has lovesick eyes for big bush.

Featured elements:

: carnival; chase; comedy; identity mix-up

Mabel's Wilful Way

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Alice Davenport (lead)
Edgar Kennedy (lead)
Glen Cavender (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1915
Minutes: 14

Mostly looks like another product of the “Let's just go down to the park and roll the camera while we clown around” school of film-making. Highlight is use of a blackfaced stand-in for a role genuine black faces were not likely to be eager to be seen in.

Featured elements:

: animal act; bad cop; carnival; chase; comedy; family; fighting; identity mix-up; slapstick

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene (director)
Willy Hameister (cinematographer)
Carl Mayer (writer)
Hans Janowitz (writer)
Werner Krauss (lead)
Conrad Veidt (lead)
Friedrich Feher (lead)
Lil Dagover (lead)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (lead)
Decla (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Feb 1920
Minutes: 72

“Mother Of All Noir”? “The Big Source”? Whatever you call it, no denying that this is like so Noirsville. Music for this 1996 restoration is by Timothy Brock.

Featured elements:

: abstraction; alter ego; carnival; chase; crime; detective; flashback; manipulator; mind control; noir; psycho; rescue; unreliable narrator

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