I’m not sure exactly how this happens, but the pauses the performers insert so that “one thing and one thing…
The “deliberate tempo” Milton Sills writes of was one of two things I picked up on when I began watching…
Milton Sills was a huge star of the silent era. His name and face may be unfamiliar today but he…
I’d been waving a “smoking gun” I’d been alerted to verifying the concept and technique of acting for an undercranked…
Once I discovered or realized this notion that people making silent comedies, and Silent Film in general, were aware of…
I’d always been fascinated with and puzzled by the way silent movies are shown faster than they were filmed at…
There was something slightly unsettling about the employment office sequence I saw in the “The Chaplin Revue” (1959) of “A…
When you work in a niche-market end of the arts – and a niche-within-a-niche-within-a-niche market, at that – you dream…
The silence in Silent Film can be selective. It’s not just the fact that there were no microphones during filming.…
I thoroughly enjoyed presenting and live-scoring Keaton’s Go West (1925) for the Cinema Arts Centre via live-stream last night! Our…