National Silent Movie Day – September 29:

A Trip to the Moon a.k.a. Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)
The Mermaid a.k.a. La sirène (1904)

The Frog a.k.a. La grenouille (1908)

The Ocean Waif (1916)

The High Sign (1921)

Metropolis (1927)

Hotel Monterey (1972)

A Trip to the Moon a.k.a. Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)
Directed and written by Georges Méliès. 13-minute silent movie. Inspired by the novels: From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, by Jules Verne, & The First Men in the Moon, by H. G. Wells. Cast: Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, François Lallement, Henri Delannoy, Jules-Eugène Legris, Victor André, Delpierre, Farjaux, Kelm, Brunnet, Ballet of the Théâtre du Châtelet, Acrobats of the Folies Bergère.

The Mermaid a.k.a. La sirène (1904)
Directed by Georges Méliès. Cast: Georges Méliès. French 4-minute silent. A magician sees a mermaid appear in what was an empty tank. Is she real, or one of his staged illusions? The zoom effect was achieved by simply moving the tank up to the camera.

The Frog a.k.a. La grenouille (1908)

3-minute silent short. Directed Segundo de Chomón. Cast: Julienne Mathieu.

The Ocean Waif (1916)

Directed by Alice Guy. Written by Frederick Chapin. Cast: Carlyle Blackwell, Doris Kenyon, Edgar Norton, Fraunie Fraunholz, William Morris, Augusta Burmeister, Lyn Donelson.

The High Sign (1921)
21-minute short movie. Directed and written by Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton. Cast: Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety, Ingram B. Pickett, Joe Roberts, Al St. John.

Metropolis (1927)

Directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang. Based on the novel by Thea von Harbou. Music by Gottfried Huppertz. Cast: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos, Erwin Biswanger, Heinrich George, Brigitte Helm, Fritz Alberti, Grete Berger, Olly Boeheim, Max Dietze, Ellen Frey, Beatrice Garga, Heinrich Gotho, Dolly Grey, Anny Hintze, Gottfried Huppertz, Georg John, Walter Kuehle, Vera Kálmán, Margarete Lanner, Rose Lichtenstein, Hanns Leo Reich, Arthur Reinhardt, Curt Siodmak, Henrietta Siodmak, Olaf Storm, Erwin Vater, Rolf von Goth, Helen von Münchhofen, Helene Weigel, Hilde Woitscheff.

Hotel Monterey (1972)

Silent documentary directed and written by Chantal Akerman. Released at the Venice Biennale in Italy on September 4, 1975. Filmed in 1972.