Joe Reid

joereid.bsky.social

24 December 2025 19:28

Gonna be a little bit ~different~ today and pay tribute to the queer icons of Christmas. Starting with fussy, frustrated, child-hating Professor Hinkle from "Frosty the Snowman."

Movies Silently

moviessilently.bsky.social

25 June 2025 01:43

Evelyn Preer in Oscar Micheaux's WITHIN OUR GATES (1920). Most of his silent films, including his debut feature THE HOMESTEADER, are lost but a single copy of this film was found in Spain and helped revive his reputation.

Movies Silently

moviessilently.bsky.social

07 May 2025 13:22

The elaborate stencil color in CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1925) took years to apply. Master colorist Madame Thuillier (who had worked with Méliès) studied period paintings in galleries to choose her palette and then workers cut one stencil for every color of every frame.

Movies Silently

moviessilently.bsky.social

07 May 2025 13:22

Natural color film, while beautiful in its own right, did not capture the fill spectrum and was limited to red and green. It was also fussy to film with, front-loading a lot of work in production. Very few feature films used either type of color for their full runtime.

Daniel Radosh

radosh.bsky.social

25 April 2025 14:46

The entire transcript of Time's interview with Trump is insane. Just to pick one moment: Trump says Biden would never do an interview with Time, then when told that he had asks how it went, then when told he can read it himself says that he had read it and it didn't go well time.com/7280114/dona...