Greed (1924)

I can already guess what everyone's response to this one will be. Originally an 8 hour silent movie cut down to a 2 hour movie but with the help of still photographs restored to a 4 hour movie, any way you look at it it's a long watch but it was on this morning and my mom wanted to see it so I recorded it and we're going to watch (part of) it tonight. This should be very interesting but I'd sure like to know both what the original 8 hour film was like and HOW they EVER thought they could put that in a theater back then.