“Sing ‘Fly, Birdie, Fly’,” Angela Fish is prompted by her father in a scene from “Bell Boy 13”. She sits…
“Silent films were never really silent” is one of the main tenets one hears or says in defense of silent…
Owners of Blackhawk Films 16mm and 8mm prints of “A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studios” probably had no idea…
There are a number of remarkable things I noticed in the Douglas MacLean comedy “One a Minute” (1921) as I…
I’ve become interested in the idea of conflated memory. It’s taken me down an interesting rabbit hole with my silent…
John Cleese said a lot of things during three days I spent in Dallas in the first week of December,…
My “right brain theory” about silent film resonated with a journalist recently. It doesn’t usually happen, and I was pleased…
Several of us classic comedy film fans have been trying to dispel the myth of pie fights and custard pie-throwing…
On Tuesday night I rolled the dice and presented yet another obscure, unknown silent comedy film I’d taken a liking…
About a month ago I went from being a fan and regular listener of Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast to…