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Post by tobias on Mar 18, 2017 15:40:26 GMT
If you've seen it in film-class please list the oldest you've seen in other classes aswell because a lot of places film classes do not exist (like for instance where I went to school). I am asking specifically about general schooling, not college or university.
For me it's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) in history class. We've also seen Die Dreigroschenoper/Threepeny Opera (1931) in german class. I was wondering wether teachers would even consider showing older films than these - at least outside of film class (as they almost necesarily would have to be silent). So which films are it for you?
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Post by bobbystarks on Mar 18, 2017 15:42:42 GMT
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 15:58:47 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)- though I'm not done with school, and I hear we may watch All Quiet on the Western Front sometime soon.
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Post by tobias on Mar 18, 2017 16:00:57 GMT
Cool, what was the context? |
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Post by bobbystarks on Mar 18, 2017 16:07:01 GMT
Cool, what was the context? I honestly can't remember. It was in one of my art related classes in 10th or 11th grade. It was one of my teachers favorite films so he showed it to us. Thank god he warned us about the eye scene before hand. But I already kinda knew about it due to Pixies' "Debaser", though I didn't realize it was this film in particular until he told us. |
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Post by michael128 on Mar 18, 2017 16:08:31 GMT
The Kiss (1896)
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Post by erickeitel on Mar 18, 2017 16:18:26 GMT
Feature length would probably be Nanook of the North (1922, though I saw some clips of older films in class). Short would be The Great Train Robbery (1903).
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Post by tobias on Mar 18, 2017 17:29:54 GMT
Feature length would probably be Nanook of the North (1922, though I saw some clips of older films in class). Short would be The Great Train Robbery (1903). Interesting, which classes were that? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 18:15:14 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird. At that time, it was a 42 year old film and the class was still not paying attention because it was in......BLACK AND WHITE!  I hated watching movies in school; people were so insufferable.
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Post by tobias on Mar 18, 2017 19:56:24 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird. At that time, it was a 42 year old film and the class was still not paying attention because it was in......BLACK AND WHITE! I hated watching movies in school; people were so insufferable. Yes, I know what you mean. Close to everyone didn't much like Citizen Kane when we watched it in english class (but I think people were quiet). I have a rather positive memory of watching Al Quiet in the Western Front. I think most came out liking it. Dreigroschenoper I think was liked by me and the teachers  but we had read the play so I think people were somewhat focussed. |
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Post by Joaquim on Mar 18, 2017 20:08:16 GMT
We saw like a clip of The Birth of a Nation but oldest seen in its entirety is It Happened One Night. I've seen older stuff in uni film appreciation class though.
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Post by atn on Mar 18, 2017 20:28:08 GMT
I think Julius Caesar '53 for an English class
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Post by bobbystarks on Mar 18, 2017 23:45:06 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird. At that time, it was a 42 year old film and the class was still not paying attention because it was in......BLACK AND WHITE! I hated watching movies in school; people were so insufferable. Christ it was the worst. Don't know how I got through it without blowing a gasket. |
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Post by wonky on Mar 19, 2017 0:01:46 GMT
Same, I think. That was Spanish 4 in high school, going through Dali for a unit on Spanish art. |
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Post by no on Mar 19, 2017 0:17:12 GMT
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (1878)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 0:25:55 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird. At that time, it was a 42 year old film and the class was still not paying attention because it was in......BLACK AND WHITE! I hated watching movies in school; people were so insufferable. Christ it was the worst. Don't know how I got through it without blowing a gasket. I know! Like if you have a short attention span, then do something else instead of making fun of the movie. They just crack jokes to be cool. Teenagers suck. |
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Post by Sharbs on Mar 19, 2017 0:27:16 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird as well
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Post by erickeitel on Mar 19, 2017 0:39:14 GMT
Feature length would probably be Nanook of the North (1922, though I saw some clips of older films in class). Short would be The Great Train Robbery (1903). Interesting, which classes were that? was a general introductory studies class. Nanook was a documentary ethics and theory class. |
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Mar 19, 2017 19:48:35 GMT
Discounting the various film classes I took in college, probably A Trip To The Moon.
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Post by dadsburgers on Mar 19, 2017 21:06:05 GMT
Very good question, let me think back...
I went to college for film, so the oldest full-length feature we watched in whole was Metropolis. We watched shorts going all the way back to the beginning and clips from others like Battleship Potemkin and Birth of a Nation as well.
As for high school, the bulk of movies was from history classes. The Last Emperor, Gandhi, etc. The oldest one I can think of was Zulu with Michael Caine from 1964. We also watched a lot of movies from my Italian class, often contemporary. The oldest ones I can remember are Ciao, Professore! and Johnny Stecchino from the early 90s.
The one exception, to actually answer your question, is when we watched Bicycle Thieves from 1948 in my Italian II class in 9th grade.
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but we had read the play so I think people were somewhat focussed.
