There is a warning that appears at the beginning of many Scott Joplin piano rags. I remember seeing this in…
Some years ago, I made a project of deconstructing Buster Keaton’s The Goat (1921) in a series of undercranking studies…
Ernie Kovacs must have had an inkling that his viewership on the half-hour comedy-variety show he did late mornings on…
Recording a New Piano Soundtrack for The Bride’s Play starring Marion Davies, Aided by a Live Show Experience The hardest…
There was no one way all film was accompanied musically during the silent film era. There was a range. A…
Every once in a while, I’ll hear or be told about some new amazing silent film discovery being shown at…
One of the bits of restoration work that went into The Alice Howell Collection DVD set was creating new main…
Ernie Kovacs made a point of bringing make-up artist George Fiala out on camera in what may his only TV…
I’ve seen Mabel Normand referred to as being a female Chaplin, in articles from the silent era and in contemporary…
Jack Newlon may have been hoping lightning might strike twice in 1952 when he composed and recorded Oriental Rag. His…