Richards Favorite Videos » Short http://vid.richardland.com Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:40:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Insect Poetry http://vid.richardland.com/insect-poetry/ http://vid.richardland.com/insect-poetry/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:30:41 +0000 Richard http://vid.richardland.com/insect-poetry/

An interesting, kind of emo, Will Venton claymation short.

]]> http://vid.richardland.com/insect-poetry/feed/ 0 The Parlor. Real Online Chatroom http://vid.richardland.com/the-parlor-real-online-chatroom/ http://vid.richardland.com/the-parlor-real-online-chatroom/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:36:29 +0000 Richard http://vid.richardland.com/the-parlor-real-online-chatroom/

An awesome dark comedy short film using an idea I’ve wanted to do in various forms for awhile: what if X online were depicted as real life?

]]> http://vid.richardland.com/the-parlor-real-online-chatroom/feed/ 0 The Storyteller. The Soldier and Death http://vid.richardland.com/the-storyteller-the-soldier-and-death/ http://vid.richardland.com/the-storyteller-the-soldier-and-death/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:41:08 +0000 Richard http://vid.richardland.com/the-storyteller-the-soldier-and-death/

Returning from war, a young solider trades his last biscuit for a magical sack..into which anything summoned will enter! Trapping devils and even death itself, the solder brings peace to his country. But Death soon proves a greater enemy captured then free.
My favorite of the Storyteller series, though its close with the Heartless Giant. Brilliantly written, executed, acted and edited and the cinematography here is the best from the series. The card game with the devils gives m the same excitement chills it did when I first saw it in kindergarden in 1989 and every time afterward on tape.
Best lines:

Devil: That’s a nice whistle. Ahh want ta hav it!
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Soldier: So… what shall we play for?
Devil 1: his soul!
Devil 2: his whistle
Devil 3: his TEETH…. aye collect teeth…

]]> http://vid.richardland.com/the-storyteller-the-soldier-and-death/feed/ 0 Charlie Chaplin. Between Showers http://vid.richardland.com/charlie-chaplin-between-showers/ http://vid.richardland.com/charlie-chaplin-between-showers/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:00:19 +0000 Richard http://vid.richardland.com/charlie-chaplin-between-showers/

In Between Showers, Chaplin and Sterling play two young men, Masher and Mirval Masher, who fight over the chance to help a young woman, played by Emma Bell Clifton, cross a muddy street. Eventually a police officer, played by Chester Conklin, arrests Mirval.

]]> http://vid.richardland.com/charlie-chaplin-between-showers/feed/ 0 Charlie Chaplin. Cruel, Cruel Love http://vid.richardland.com/charlie-chaplin-cruel-cruel-love/ http://vid.richardland.com/charlie-chaplin-cruel-cruel-love/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:31:00 +0000 Richard http://vid.richardland.com/charlie-chaplin-cruel-cruel-love/

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin’s romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. “Cruel, Cruel Love” was presumed a lost film for 50 years until a rather good complete nitrate copy was discovered in South America. “Cruel, Cruel Love” was then copied and its original two reel format is available for sale… or right here on richardland.com ;)

Cruel Cruel Love (1914)
Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee, Eva Nelson.
Directed by George Nichols, Mack Sennett

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