Hells Heroes or - The Three Godfathers

The original version of this tale was a short story, "Broncho Billy and the Baby",  which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1910 and was the basis for an Essanay short film of the same name. The short story  is credited as the basis for Kyne’s later novel ‘The Three Godfathers’ in 1913; an online version is dated 1916 and would seem no longer than the original story. Set in Arizona, the basic plot has a gang of bank robbers stumble on a covered wagon where a dying woman entrusts her ba...

How the world ended in 1916

The End of the World (1916). DB here: The pull-quote might be "Gripping entertainment and a vivid introduction to storytelling strategies characteristic of Danish silent cinema!"  (Too long for a poster, though.) It appears in my essay on a remarkable silent film you may not know. I bet you’d like it. Danish cinema has gripped my interest for about fifty years. Like most cinéphiles, I started with Dreyer, moved on to Christensen, and then just tried to keep up with trends leading to ...

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Till Eulenspiegel: Traveling Trickster of Medieval German Literature

Scene from the Ballet Till Eulenspiegel (1916) / Public Domain There is a suggestion that the name is in fact a veiled pun on a Low German phrase translating to "wipe-arse". Edited by Matthew A. McIntoshJournalist and HistorianBrewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction Till Eulenspiegel is the protagonist of a German chapbook published in 1515 (a first edition of c. 1510/12 is preserved fragmenta...