Nitrate Diva

Bess Flowers, “queen of the dress extras,” in a risqué scene from A Woman of Paris (1923).

From The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

Recently rediscovered early Technicolor footage of Louise Brooks in The American Venus (1926). 

Spring awakens in Louis Feuillade’s Le Printemps (1909).

Clara Bow in Children of Divorce (1927).

Buster Keaton tries to kiss the bride—but gets blocked by his affectionate dog in Seven Chances (1925).

Josephine Baker in La Sirène des Tropiques (1927).

That feeling when you have to give a speech and you’ve got a kitten stuck in your sweater... From The Freshman (1925).

Charlie Chaplin goofing around on the set of City Lights (1931).

Mary Pickford as introduced in the credits of Tess of the Storm Country (1914).

From Buster Keaton’s The General (1926).

Josephine Baker in La Sirène des Tropiques (1927).

Barbara Kent in Lonesome (1928).

Buster Keaton in Seven Chances (1925).

From Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922).

From The Telltale Heart (1928).

Lillian Gish in The Wind (1928).