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Please use the following title formatting, when posting: · Film Name - Director/s (YYYY)

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Always include the original film name, director and year of release. If you do not know some of the required information, state that in either the title or top-level comment e.g. [Roma, Federico Fellini, Unknown Year]. The reason we ask for this information is that you can only search on the content of post titles, not comments.

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Please watch what is posted already, maybe your gif isn't the most suitable for this community.

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The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) is today believed to be a lost film. The only part of the movie known to still exist is this brief montage sequence created by Slavko Vorkapić.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's intriguing is that even a century ago, the perception of Wall Street remained unchanged: a predator, a untamed force causing destruction, often seen akin to a wolf in the financial landscape.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A small but incredible shot! The Wall Street building, absorbing the capital (the factories/transports), and shredding money at the same time as a machine. It's beautiful!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's mesmerising

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It looks like it’s spitting out ticker tape, i.e. stock valuations, not shredding money

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely incredible composition

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really makes you wonder exactly how they achieved this at that time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mattes! Lots can be accomplished simply by controlling what part of the film gets exposed and when.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There really was so much expression in silent movies. This is awesome.