Jazz Age Dark Knight
August 20th, 2008 at 11:14am Will Pfeifer
Here’s something fun — a Batman film dating way back to the silent era of cinema …
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Of course, Batman wasn’t actually created until 1939, but that didn’t stop Andre Perkowski from cobbling together bits of various silent films, adding some convincingly dated intertitles and giving us an intriguing peek of what a silent film Batman might look like. Want to see more? Check out his You Tube site. Part 2 features The Joker, making great use of clips from the silent film THE MAN WHO LAUGHS — which was actually a big inspiration for the Joker’s look.
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1. CuriousOranges | August 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Great find! Looks like there’s a new one too, ten minutes and promises more chapters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4XqYT1-JU
“Mark of the Mad Hatter”
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2. Jerry | August 21st, 2008 at 12:52 am
These are really well made. Very cool.
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