Video: 'The Phantom of the Opera (1925) [HD] - Lon Chaney'
(Sunday, September 6, 1925, evening EDT) — The Phantom of the Opera, a silent horror film about a hideously deformed man who haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera, premiered tonight at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
Directed by Rupert Julian, the film starred Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe and Gibson Gowland.
Video: 'The Gold Rush (1925) - Charlie Chaplin - funny classic video'
(Monday, June 26, 1925, evening) — The Gold Rush, a silent film about a lost soul in the Yukon who seeks love and wealth, premiered today at Grauman’s Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin, the film starred Chaplin, Mack Swain and Tom Murray.
Video: 'The Lost World FULL MOVIE! (1925)'
(Monday, February 2, 1925) — The Lost World, a silent fantasy adventure film based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel about explorers who encounter living prehistoric animals in South America, had its world premiere today in the U.S.
Directed by Harry Hoyt, the film starred Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes and Alma Bennett.
Video: 'The Navigator (1924) Buster Keaton'
(Monday, October 13, 1924) — The Navigator, a comedy silent film about two members of the idle rich who have to move fast when they”re stranded on an abandoned luxury liner, was released today in the U.S.
Directed by Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp, the film starred Keaton and Kathryn McGuire.
Video: 'Thief of Bagdad (1924) - Film complet'
(Tuesday, March 18, 1924) — The Thief of Bagdad, a swashbuckler film about a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad, premiered today in New York City.
Directed by Raoul Walsh, the film starred Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston and Anna May Wong.
Video: 'A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1923)'
(Saturday, March 12, 1923) — Inventor Lee De Forest demonstrated his sound-on-movie-film system, called “Phonofilm,” to the press today in New York.
(Saturday, March 4, 1922) — Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel, opened today in Berlin.
Directed by F. W. Murnau, the classic German Expressionist horror film stars Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.
(Sunday, October 30, 1921) — The Sheik, a silent movie directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, and Adolphe Menjou, premiered tonight in Los Angeles. It was based on the bestselling romance novel “The Sheik” by Edith Maude Hull.
