Did any silents "bloopers" survive?

Sure. On page 37 of the August 1918 issue of Photoplay, C. B.
DeMille's two reels of "Chamber of Horrors" is discussed, with 6 frame
captures, and descriptions. One of them is Fannie Ward falling off a
bridge when the railing gave way; I think I remember seeing that clip
on one of Dick Clark's TV blooper programs.

--Bruce

On Sep 14, 5:29 pm, "Carol" <carol.shub... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering, are there any candid extras, outtakes or bloopers around
> from any films of the silent era that didn't fall into the oblivion on the
> cutting room floor?
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"Carol" wrote:

> Just wondering, are there any candid extras, outtakes or bloopers around
> from any films of the silent era that didn't fall into the oblivion on the
> cutting room floor?

There are a lot of semi-bloopers. You can see a fly crawling
around on one of the title cards in HELL'S HINGES, and someone at
Keystone misspelled Mabel Normand's name as "Mable" in, well, MABLE,
FATTY AND THE LAW.

A Sennett girl gets her dress torn off for a gag in MATCHMAKING
MAMMAS, but I doubt anyone asked her to be wearing that sheer bra
underneath. Sharp-eyed viewers can catch the cinematographer's shadow
or reflection in all kinds of films: Ben Turpin's THE PRODIGAL
BRIDEGROOM and Helen Holmes' THE OPEN SWITCH are two examples.

Plenty of films were shot on flimsy sets whose walls visibly wobble
when doors are slammed. We just saw one of those, ON DANGEROUS GROUND,
at Cinecon a couple of weeks ago. And nickelodeon-era films are full
of tablecloths that flutter, thanks to filming on open stages on
breezy days.

Now some people will see these things and laugh derisively, but to
me they're just part of the charm of silent movies.
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There is suppose to be some kind of blooper reel on THE GAUCHO but I've
never seen it.

--

Darren
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Kino's BLACK PIRATE DVD has quite a few out-takes from the making of this
film.

--
Bruce Calvert
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Visit the Silent Film Still Archive
http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com
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On Sep 14, 8:29 pm, "Carol" <carol.shub... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering, are there any candid extras, outtakes or bloopers around
> from any films of the silent era that didn't fall into the oblivion on the
> cutting room floor?

The Thief of Bagdad has a lot of outtakes on the Kino special edition.
Fox's DVD for Sunrise also has a reel of outtakes.
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"Darren" <dnemeth01 DeleteThis @charter.net> wrote in message
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> There is suppose to be some kind of blooper reel on THE GAUCHO but I've
> never seen it.
>
> --


I've seen some of these and basically they show that all of those stunts
Fairbanks did that he made look so easy in the final finished motion picture
often took numerous takes before he got 'em right.

Joe Moore
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Film historian / archivist Bruce Lawton discovered
and preserved many unique (read: one-of-a-kind)
reels of Fairbanks outtakes. Some extraordinary
"blooper" material there -- the content is both
amazing and hilarious. A small portion of this
footage, about 19 minutes worth, was included in
Kino's 2004 Fairbanks collection.

-- PG
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On Sep 14, 5:29 pm, "Carol" <carol.shub... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering, are there any candid extras, outtakes or bloopers around
> from any films of the silent era that didn't fall into the oblivion on the
> cutting room floor?

Cecil B. DeMille kept an outtake reel (or two reels as indicated
in one of the other posts). What survives of this is about two thirds
of a reel of footage. The scene from "The Cheat" with Fannie Ward
falling off a bridge is there, as is a scene from "Witchcraft" (1916)--
not all the footage is from DeMille Films--in which Frank Clarke
accidentally hits Fannie Ward over the head with a cane. There is
also footage from "The Woman God Forgot" (1917) in which a horse is
rescued after jumping into a pool, and there is footage from another
non-DeMille film (I can't remember now whether it's from "The Only
Son" or some other 1914 film) in which a horse's leg gets caught
between the stattion platform and a flat car. This is covered from
two different angles all the way through as the cowboys ultimately
rescue the horse. The action was undoubtedly shot for insurance
purposes.
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