Milton Sills was a huge star of the silent era. His name and face may be unfamiliar today but he…
I’d been waving a “smoking gun” I’d been alerted to verifying the concept and technique of acting for an undercranked…
Once I discovered or realized this notion that people making silent comedies, and Silent Film in general, were aware of…
I’d always been fascinated with and puzzled by the way silent movies are shown faster than they were filmed at…
There was something slightly unsettling about the employment office sequence I saw in the “The Chaplin Revue” (1959) of “A…
When you work in a niche-market end of the arts – and a niche-within-a-niche-within-a-niche market, at that – you dream…
The silence in Silent Film can be selective. It’s not just the fact that there were no microphones during filming.…
I thoroughly enjoyed presenting and live-scoring Keaton’s Go West (1925) for the Cinema Arts Centre via live-stream last night! Our…
I’m trotting out this rare silent short for the holiday weekend. It’s “The Story of the Star Spangled Banner” (1921).…
What struck me and stayed with me for years was the scene in A Dog’s Life (1918) where Charlie is…