Silent Movie (motion picture) - Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar (performers) (1976)
Title
Silent Movie (motion picture) - Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar (performers) (1976)
Subject
Motion picture
URL
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Description
Content description from WorldCat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Movie):
Silent Movie is an American satirical comedy film co-written and directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, and Sid Caesar, with appearances by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau, and Paul Newman playing themselves. While indeed silent (except for one word, music, and numerous sound effects), the film is a parody of the silent film genre, particularly the slapstick comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, and Buster Keaton. Among the film's most famous gags is the fact that the only audible word in the film is spoken by Marcel Marceau, a mime. Sound is a big factor in the film's humor, as when a scene that shows the New York City skyline begins with the song "San Francisco", only to have it come to a sudden stop as if the musicians realize they are playing the wrong music. They then go into "I'll Take Manhattan" instead. The trend of large corporations buying up film studios is parodied by the attempt of the Engulf and Devour Corporation to take control of a studio (a thinly veiled reference to Gulf+Western's takeover of Paramount Pictures).
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Silent Movie is an American satirical comedy film co-written and directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, and Sid Caesar, with appearances by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau, and Paul Newman playing themselves. While indeed silent (except for one word, music, and numerous sound effects), the film is a parody of the silent film genre, particularly the slapstick comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, and Buster Keaton. Among the film's most famous gags is the fact that the only audible word in the film is spoken by Marcel Marceau, a mime. Sound is a big factor in the film's humor, as when a scene that shows the New York City skyline begins with the song "San Francisco", only to have it come to a sudden stop as if the musicians realize they are playing the wrong music. They then go into "I'll Take Manhattan" instead. The trend of large corporations buying up film studios is parodied by the attempt of the Engulf and Devour Corporation to take control of a studio (a thinly veiled reference to Gulf+Western's takeover of Paramount Pictures).
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Mel Brooks (director, writer, and performer)
Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, and Barry Levinson (writers)
Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, and Sid Caesar (performers)
Publisher
Crossbow Productions
Twentieth Century Fox
Date
1976 June 17
Citation
“Silent Movie (motion picture) - Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar (performers) (1976),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 24, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/710.