I've seen stuff like Man Boarding a Train but I think the oldest movie I actually like watching just to watch would be The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari from 1920.
I've seen stuff like Man Boarding a Train but I think the oldest movie I actually like watching just to watch would be The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari from 1920.
Never got around to seeing that but I've heard the blackface is done tastefully.
There's actual Arabs in the movie as well as white people in Arabface. I was thinking today of doing some kind of writeup about how Lawrence of Arabia is actually an anti-white savior movie. It's really a "well-intentioned white people make everything worse" movie. Christopher Caudwell's essay about T.E. Lawrence as the last bourgeois hero in history is also pretty essential.