Next we saw the 1922 silent film Nosferatu,which was directed by F.W. Murnau, who then lived in Germany. He left that country for the United States in 1926, and he died in 1931, so most of his films were silent, and he did not live to see the Nazis take power in Germany. For more information about Murnau's Nosferatu, see this entry below:
http://worldlit2.multiply.com/journal/item/154/Nosferatu_1922
Dr. Elizabeth Miller's web site on Dracula includes a list of his characteristics (according to Bram Stoker):
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/traits.html
Note that Murnau created the vampire's inability to stand sunlight.
Dr. Miller has included another essay on the link between bats and vampires:
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/bats_vamp_drac.html
Here is a link to Roger Ebert's review of the 1931 Dracula, the first "talkie" vampire film.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990919/REVIEWS08/909190301/1023
Or you might prefer a more recent version of Dracula.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19921113/REVIEWS/211130301/1023
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040507/REVIEWS/405070306/1023
Below is a picture from Transylvania, the region in Romania where Dracula was said to come from.
Looks like it is time for a map.
We also looked at this trailer of Herzog's Nosferatu (1979):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeYpGsEdEZU
For more about silent movies, see the following entry:
http://worldlit2.multiply.com/journal/item/165/1923_Stan_Laurel_in_Roughest_Africa
Or this link to "The Little Pest" with accompaniment by Ben Model:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z6hgc6I4-s
You might also enjoy Rosa Rio and Buster Keaton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_kZzmpAU8Q&feature=related
Here are some pictures of the early nickolodeon theaters.
Finally, here is a history of silent film:http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ryahnke/film/cinema1.htm
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