For our final episode of 2021 we're going back to 1921 one more time for a look at American cinema 100 years ago!

We discuss enduring classics like Charlie Chaplin's THE KID alongside other key comedies by the likes of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Max Linder, films by D.W. Griffith (ORPHANS OF THE STORM), Henry King (TOL'ABLE DAVID) and Lois Weber (THE BLOT), the star power of Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino, left-wing filmmaking, the one supposedly ‘avant-garde’ American film of 1921 (MANHATTA), a plethora of lost and forgotten films, 'international cinema' in the US and much more!

Recommended reading includes:Kevin Brownlow, 'The Parades Gone By…' (1968)Ibid, 'Behind the Mask of Innocence' (1990)

and there are quotes read out from Steven J. Ross, 'Working Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America' (1998)

Filmography:

A Daughter of the Law (dir. Grace Cunard)A Sailor-Made Man (dir. Harold Lloyd and Fred C. Newmayer)Action (dir. John Ford)Dream Street (dir. D.W. Griffith)Hard Luck (dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)I Do (dir. Harold Lloyd and Fred C. Newmayer)Manhatta (dir. Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler)Never Weaken (dir. Harold Lloyd and Fred C. Newmayer)Orphans of the Storm (dir. D.W. Griffith)Seven Years Bad Luck (dir. Max Linder)The Ace of Hearts (dir. Wallace Worseley)The Blot (dir. Lois Weber)The Boat (dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)The Contrast (dir. Guy Hedlund)The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (dir. Rex Ingram)The Goat (dir. Keaton and Edward F. Cline)The Idle Class (dir. Chaplin)The Kid (dir. Chaplin)The Love Light (dir. Frances Marion)The Lucky Dog (dir. Jess Robins)The New Disciple (dir. Ollie Sellers)The Play House (dir. Keaton and Edward F. Cline)The Sheik (dir. George Melford)The Sky Pilot (dir. King Vidor)The Three Musketeers (dir. Fred Niblo)The Wallop (dir. John Ford)Tol'able David (dir. Henry King)

The soundtrack includes covers of ‘100 Years Ago’ by the Rolling Stones and ‘Lonesome Road Blues’ from Emmett, and an accordion interpretation of ‘1921’ by the Who from Sam.

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Produced by Sam Storey