sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-01-19 12:06 am

The intertitles in our silent picture show

I want to go back in time and steal this man's waistcoat. Or at least ask what he was reading:



(Francis George Packer, an actor I'd never heard of even under his stage name, Nigel De Brulier. He played the prophet Jokanaan in the 1923 avant-garde film of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, however, so I expect to see more of him soon. Discovered while looking for Conrad Veidt.)

[livejournal.com profile] nineweaving worries it would wear me, but I think the wolf hat could take it.

[identity profile] timesygn.livejournal.com 2012-01-20 01:35 am (UTC)(link)

And whoa! Look ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-poWwCWnl3s