1910

This week I watched the Edison film Frankenstein (J. Searle Dowley, 1910). This print that someone has uploaded is not in great shape, but I doubt something this obscure is available in any other format.

The film admits to being a “liberal adaptation” of Mary Shelley’s original work [...]

1909

This week I watched two more D.W. Griffith movies. Both forms of social commentary, but radically different from each other: Those Awful Hats and A Corner in Wheat. The first shows the early 19th century’s version of a “turn off your cell phones” theatre service announcement. Top hats and large, flowered, wide-brimmed numbers were apparently [...]

1908

We’re going to start a new series here at Dear Jesus. Each week we’re going to post about a year in filmmaking. Starting at 1908, we will make our way towards 2008 to cover 100 years of film. To do this, we’ll pick one or a couple movies to write about for each year, chronologically.
Now, [...]