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These days, you can do pretty much anything with CGI (sometimes it's good, sometimes it's… not). But back in the early days of movies, filmmakers had to be a lot more creative about they filmed stunts. This collection from silentmoviegifs explains how some impressive scenes from movies by the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were achieved — our personal favorite is the Chaplin rollerskating scene:
[silentmoviegifs Via Reddit]
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