Oldest movies you've seen?

[Shoggoth2588]

What are the oldest movies you've seen?

I've seen Nosferatu (1922)

I've seen that one as well and quoted it in a fan-parody making fun of Twilight. It seemed like a good idea at the time...

I think that may be the oldest movie I've seen (not counting the recording Garden Party shown on either Game Overthinker or, Big Picture). My favorite old movie though is 12 Angry Men. No idea what year it was released and can't be bothered to check out imdb.

 

[OneCatch]

Citizen Kane for me. I don't generally watch many really old movies. Will probably watch Metropolis some point soon though, and that's 1927 I think.

Yeah, Metropolis is the earliest on my shelf (filmed in 1925-26, released in early 1927 I think). It's really good though - get hold of the remastered version if you can - it incorporates some of the lost reels that were found in 2005, which add a fair bit to the story.

This is the earliest film I've seen. I felt that the repetitive music got annoying somewhere towards the end, but it's still the groundstone of scifi films.

Yeah, I agree the music is a little too... strident. I guess that's cause we're often used to slightly more subtle audio cues nowadays - I find a lot of older film's soundtracks distracting to say the least.

Either way, it's still a really good film!

 

[The Last Nomad]

I've seen the very first motion picture... so that I guess. But its not really a movie I suppose, just a clip of a horse running.

 

[literallyanythingelse]

Throne of Blood and Twelve Angry Men (both 1957)
The first is basically Macbeth but in feudal Japan, and the second follows twelve jurors as they decide the fate of a young man.
Both very good movies, both highly recommended.
But both of those are beaten by the greatest movie ever:
Duck Soup (1933)
Marx Brothers for the win.

I remember watching Throne of Blood in a school assembly. I found it hilarious because the opening sequence has men riding in and out of fog for a good 20 minutes with no context or fighting. I imagine it's meant to be the part where Macbeth cleaves a bloke from 'nave to chops' or something like that. Disappointing lack of cleavage though. In the cleaving sense.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

I've seen most of Alexander Nevsky from 1938. Can't remember much of it though, other than it being pretty good considering how old it is.

 

[Deathmageddon]

I saw a silent, greyscale adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu, but it was make in the early 2000's...

 

[Darknacht]

Roundhay Garden Scene(1888).

Beat that Escapists!

What about "The Horse in Motion"?

 

[Drummie666]

The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Yeah... I can't think of anything earlier than that and I only watched it because the rest of my family watches it like, every year.
I'm not much of a movie goer.

 

[freakydan]

I caught the 1920s version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore (Drew Barrymore's grandfather) on TV a few years back. I think that's the oldest I've seen all of. I was thinking it'd be Battleship Potemkin, but Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde predates it by 5 years.

 

[Eleuthera]

Beat several times over already, but the oldest film I've (fully) seen is 'Gone With The Wind'(1939)

 

[xXGeckoXx]

Captain Blood (1935, awesome)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Also awesome.

 

[1080bitgamer]

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), a bit of an oddball film

 

[bernardblack]

A Trip to the Moon (1903) and Citizen Kane (1941). Didn't really care for Citizen Kane, a Trip to the Moon was very interesting though.

 

[DanielBrown]

Not sure. Have some horror box with tons of old, bad movies. Only watched a few passively since there's no subtitles and the sound quality is awful. Think most of them were from the 30's-60's. Also seen a bit of Nosferatu, but it didn't get much attention from me either(cursed ADD tendencies, I need action and color!).

Guess the only one I actually remember well is Casablanca.

 

[guitarsniper]

The Mark of Zorro (1920)

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I saw 'The Great Train Robbery' (1903) as part of a film history module in Media Studies, though for actual feature length films, the earliest I've seen is probably 'His Girl Friday' (1940) which I think holds up pretty well.

 

[Pegghead]

While I can't say for sure which one it is, they were playing these silent, black and white serials on tv once based on The Three Musketeers. It would be somewhere up the top of this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers_in_film

It was...interesting, seeing how far we've come in terms of production values. I remember at one point one of the musketeers bursts into a room through a window made of cardboard. It was hilarious.

 

[RyoScar]

Oldest one i've seen is The Wizard of Oz (1939)

 

[Breaker deGodot]

I've seen "The Great Train Robbery" (1903), which is more interesting for the history behind it than the film itself. Additionally, there's the films of Fritz Lang, such as "M" (1930), "Metropolis" (1927), and "Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler" (1922) . Then there's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928), which is perhaps my favorite silent film ever. Finally, there's a sizable chunk of Marx Brothers movies, like "Duck Soup" (1933) and "A Night at the Opera" (1935). Those movies are just as funny now as they were 70-80 years ago.

I've seen a movie about the moon which was really old but can't remember the year (it was also really short).
Then the ones I can actually remember, star wars IV, Spagetthi Western...

"A Trip to the Moon" (1902), perhaps?

 

[Starik20X6]

Saw Metropolis (1927) not too long ago. I think that's the oldest 'film' I've seen. Like others I've seen a few of those little 3 second clips from the late 1800's and early 1900's but I don't really remember the names of them.