Marion Davies’ 1922 Film Beauty’s Worth Gets a Deluxe Outdoor Screening In the Birthplace of Its Director Robert G. Vignola At…
I’ve recorded and posted a new episode of The Silent Film Music Podcast with Ben Model. It’s the podcast that…
USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive and Lobster Films Collaborate to Make Blackhawk Films Catalogs Available to Fans and…
Lubitsch-Directed “Rosita” (1923) Is On Screens Again After 95 Years and Worth Seeing I was on the fence about attending…
How I Learned Why It’s Called a “Step-And-Repeat” by Stepping And Repeating I have posed for photos at events for…
Or…What to Expect When You’re Expecting Something from a Hitchcock Movie I accompanied Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) on piano a couple…
Three Songs You Won’t Hear During My Accompaniment to “Show People” — and Why One of the bugaboos in film…
Honoring the Gag Work in a Silent Comedy Sometimes Involves a Doing a Little Homework and Then Sharing Your Findings…
Putting Humpty Together Again, Thanks to the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress It isn’t often that…
There was a lot of borrowing and sharing of material in the days of silent comedy shorts, a tradition that…