A SELF-MADE FAILURE is "Dizzy" Daniels' latest and greatest silent comedy assault. It's in the tradition of the great silent clowns of the twenties where Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd ruled the silver screens.

 

A SELF-MADE FAILURE holds the distiction of being the first authentic
silent film comedy in eighty years. Even Chaplin's last silent film, MODERN TIMES (1936) had scenes with voices in them. When Mel Brooks made SILENT MOVIE in 1984, even he couldn't resist adding Marcel Marceaux's voice in it as a gag. SILENT MOVIE was also shot in color and was filmed at regular sound speed with certain scenes speeded up for comic effect. Silent comedy films were usually all shot at slower speeds and projected faster.