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…
The top starring comedians of silent movies were the last to give up the ghost when talking pictures brought the…
Filmmakers’ love for silent cinema has held on throughout the post-Vitaphone decades, and the form has popped up from time…
What makes Silent Film its own medium, and not merely a genre of film, is its unique and specific messing…
A brief coda about Silent Film projection speed(s) before I move on to the next overall topic. And that is…
I have a two-sentence slide about a third of the way in to my “Undercranking: the Magic Behind the Slapstick”…
The unique form of Silent Film allowed the performers, directors, scenarists, gag writers and stunt performers to unleash their imaginations.…
Buster Keaton said in interviews that one of the challenges of moving into feature-length was that you couldn’t do “impossible…
I’m not sure exactly how this happens, but the pauses the performers insert so that “one thing and one thing…