I just love when a movie with a prefix "the first ever to" turns out to be not only that but also a great movie after all. 1924's "The Chechahcos" was the first movie ever to be shot in its entirety in Alaska, even the indoor scenes. Before having watched it I thought it would be just another movie about those gold diggers who came to Alaska hoping to get rich but boy was I wrong. This is a tender story of a girl who loses her mother in an incident and the two men who saved her and became her guardians as she grew up. This silent movie is everything it's supposed to be: heart-warming, romantic, adventurous, thrilling, at times brutal and, of course, kind. It is one of a kind!
I was so surprised when I found out there are like only two sentences about this movie on Wikipedia - it deserves so much more than that. In fact, the shots of Alaska were so beautiful and unique that Charlie Chaplin himself used a couple of them for his well-known hit "The Gold Rush" a year later and that says something.
I love silent movies. There's something about them that a talkie doesn't have and it isn't sound. It's the soul. We experience a new spectrum of emotions by absorbing what's happening on the screen - we see the actors live through their roles not getting to hear a word from them. Pure emotions. Isn't it worth turning the sound off?!
I was so surprised when I found out there are like only two sentences about this movie on Wikipedia - it deserves so much more than that. In fact, the shots of Alaska were so beautiful and unique that Charlie Chaplin himself used a couple of them for his well-known hit "The Gold Rush" a year later and that says something.
I love silent movies. There's something about them that a talkie doesn't have and it isn't sound. It's the soul. We experience a new spectrum of emotions by absorbing what's happening on the screen - we see the actors live through their roles not getting to hear a word from them. Pure emotions. Isn't it worth turning the sound off?!
