I read silent movie title cards and letter insert shots faster than most people in the audience do. I have…
It’s a sustained three-minute shot of three people, just sitting, listening to a singer, for a nearly three minutes before…
I hadn’t any more use for my 16mm print of Making a Stetson, so I sold it on eBay. I’d…
The Ninety and Nine was one of a handful of stage properties that were very popular and which toured a…
There’s a pleasant little moment in Sunrise (1927), after the couple has rescued a runaway pig from an arcade game.…
Kevin Brownlow mailed me an item from “Variety” when I was beginning my research on silent film projection and filming…
One of the reasons a majority of people associate the piano with silent film, as opposed to theatre organ or…
Ernie Kovacs played one version of “Captain Buzzkill” or another in most of the movies he made for Columbia. He…
On paper, when you look at it, the word “accompanist” is easy to read. And yet, half the time or…
When I meet people from other parts of the country and tell them I’m a silent film accompanist , they…