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18th Aug 2007, 12:26 PM #1
What's the oldest piece of telly/film you own?
I'm on a bit of a telly nostalgia fest at present and this got me to thinkin...
Mine are Quatermass and the Pit and Watch With Mother on BBC VHS which date back to 1952
I think my earliest film is Walt Disneys Bambi...
What about you?
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18th Aug 2007, 12:47 PM #2
I've got this 1922 film called Nosferatu on shiny disc....
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18th Aug 2007, 1:09 PM #3Pip Madeley Guest
Ditto! Although whenever I watch it, I can't help thinking of Paul Whitehouse's 'Monster Monster' character from The Fast Show
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18th Aug 2007, 1:11 PM #4Wayne Guest
It's Nosferatu 1922 for me as well.
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18th Aug 2007, 1:14 PM #5
I've got a Charlie Chaplin short film which was recorded in 1916.
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18th Aug 2007, 1:51 PM #6
The Great Train Robbery and Alice In Wonderland (well, what's left of it) from 1903.
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18th Aug 2007, 1:56 PM #7Pip Madeley Guest
I knew James would beat everyone.
Actually... I might be able to go further back than 1922 - does anyone know which silent film these clips are taken from? I'd like to know. The music's awesome too, check it out.
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18th Aug 2007, 2:13 PM #8
On a slight tangent for a moment in regard to old films I wish they'd put those 20 minute Laurel & Hardy shorts back on TV.
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18th Aug 2007, 2:21 PM #9
I was a bit cheeky as The Great Train Robbery is only a 12 minute effort. The oldest films I've got after that would probably be The Mustketeers of Pig Alley (D.W. Griffith short from 1912), The Birth of A Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). They last two run for about 3 hours each!!
Baynes might be able to top that.
Oldest TV would be The Quatermass Experiment (1953)
What a sad git!
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18th Aug 2007, 2:31 PM #10
Well, all that makes our 1939 Wizard of Oz seem positively modern!!
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18th Aug 2007, 2:41 PM #11
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18th Aug 2007, 2:45 PM #12
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18th Aug 2007, 3:06 PM #13Captain Tancredi Guest
TV- The Quatermass Experiment (1953)
Film- The 39 Steps (1935)
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18th Aug 2007, 3:59 PM #14
I do have George Melies' Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902) downloaded. It's only 14 minutes long. My next oldest is The birth of a nation (1915), so it's debatable as to whether James has beaten me there...a draw!?
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18th Aug 2007, 4:12 PM #15
I bow down before Carol. She's the biggest buff on here.
Unless you want to see who can manage to make it through The Birth of a Nation three times in a row. Once is pushing it!!
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18th Aug 2007, 4:49 PM #16Captain Tancredi Guest
Yes, but if you get through three times you qualify for a free pointy hat.
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18th Aug 2007, 5:44 PM #17
It might be cheating a little, but I've got The Sausage Machine (1895) on video, it's shown in full in a history of cinema documentary thing I taped years ago. But, er, well, yeah, that is kind of cheating a bit as it's a very short short, as it were. Gotta say the original's the best though, the remake they did in 1897 is rubbish!
Other than that, the oldest film I've got is Battleship Potemkin, but that's 1925 and so years off James and Carol."RIP Henchman No.24."
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18th Aug 2007, 6:55 PM #18
I have to admit that I've never watched "The birth of a nation" in one three hour sitting, and I've only seen it once!
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18th Aug 2007, 7:18 PM #19Pip Madeley GuestIt might be cheating a little, but I've got The Sausage Machine (1895) on video
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18th Aug 2007, 9:59 PM #20
I guess The Quatermass Experiment (1953) counts TV wise, bearing in mind that only a third of it exists! Otherwise, I think I've got the BBC version of 1984 on video somewhere - from 1954? And the complete Quatermass II from 1955.
Film-wise, I doubt I've got anything older than the Wizard of Oz (1939) - though the film seems so timeless, it's hard to believe it's approaching 70 years of age!
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19th Aug 2007, 11:46 AM #21
I'v got some Laurel & Hardy films that date from 1939 & some Will Hay DVD's which were made from 1935 - 1942. That's about it.
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