This visual shorthand employed in Silent Film helps us know immediately what sort of behavior to expect of the person…
We know who on the train with us is a conductor by their uniform. When I see a film crew…
Another way Silent Film engages us is by telling us very little about our story’s players and events. It’s similar…
A ventriloquist isn’t actually throwing their voice, although that’s often how the skill is referred to. The ventriloquist’s voice appears…
What did this aberration of the presence of sound mean to people making Silent Film? While it’s not known who…
One of my favorite natural laws of the universe of Silent Film involves, of all things, sound. That is, sound…
The unique combination of the delivering of reality and the elisions of it that we process in that quasi dream-state…
I’d initially planned for this last series of posts about sub-titles (intertitles) to be about the use of art and…
Okay, some final words about the appearance of text in silent movie intertitles before I move on to what sometimes…
The typefaces and hand-lettering styles in films from the silent era do not have a wide variety, and for the…