I received notice Tuesday from the NYPL Library for the Performing Arts that that Silent Clowns Film Series screening of…
Mabel Normand had a head start. I’ll give you that. Her association with Mack Sennett and with Roscoe Arbuckle has…
The rehearsals and performance of my orchestral score for the Charley Chase short “Dog Shy” in February were probably the…
I never got to meet Diana Serra Cary, but I did have a couple of phone conversations with her. This…
We classic film fans typically own several “The Films of…” books that cover the careers of important stars or directors.…
I’ve heard the term “baby pictures” used when referring to a composer or other artist’s early work. They were made…
“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…