The General was the first movie I watched for this project, and also the first silent film I sat down and watched all they way through. I have seen bits and pieces of silent movies, but never a full feature length film before, so that was an interesting experience. I am very surprised and impressed how few times they have to resort to putting dialog on the screen. I guess you really learn to Show, Not Tell when telling is as abrupt as in silent movies. It was interesting to see a couple of scenes that I recognize, namely the barrels being thrown out the back of the train and the train falling from the burning bridge. I really thought the train falling from the bridge was fake, but after a bit of research it turns out that it was a real, full size train falling into a river. Something else I didn't think about until I was browsing around was how many stunts there were involving real moving locomotive, which was quite dangerous.
Overall, the movie was interesting and good, but not amazing. It can best be summarized as "Silent Mr. Bean on a Train"
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