The silent comedy film series that Steve Massa and I and Ron Magliozzi put together in the late 2000s had…
Several years ago, I ventured into podcasting as a way of making it easier for me to blog. I figured…
“Live-Scoring for the Virtual Cinema” – in part one of this conversation, Ben Model discusses what it’s been like to…
I’ve scored a few films over the past year-and-a-half for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Spirals”, a 2½ minute “art…
I hope this series of posts that I began in January 2021 has been useful, educational, thought-provoking or food for…
Like the other points I’ve made about the culture and styles of the era of the 1910s and 1920s being…
I’ve covered what I’ve observed in titles cards in silent movies from the ‘teens and ‘twenties in a handful of…
Making a silent movie sounds like a fun idea, no? Lots of people with movie cameras — 16mm, 8mm, super…
There have been a handful of silent movies made over the past several decades that were released commercially. These pictures…
It came from France. Ironically similar to the way Sennett was influenced by the physical comedy shorts released by Gaumont…