Sometimes the expositional sub-titles in Silent Film may have a little more personality or a persona to them. But not…
One type of sub-title in Silent Film is the one whose purpose is to feed us exposition. A disembodied narrator…
The universe of Silent Film allows for something that may be possible in sound film or in literature, and isn’t…
The tag-line above first appeared in 1929, the final year of the silent film era. The idea encouraged busy Americans…
If there’s one other ubiquitous stereotype people have about silent movies besides heightened or exaggerated gesturing it’s the use of…
It’s possible I’ve taken up the carpet before I took up the tax. I’ve written sixteen posts so far in…
This subtle miming-to-support-what’s-being-said or conveyed appears to have gotten itself set and codified by the mid-‘teens. It didn’t change much…
There is an aspect of physical performance in Silent Film that lies somewhere between what I’ve been writing about and…
The movement and performance styles in silent films evolved during the 1910s and 1920s, becoming less theatrically-rooted and more naturalistic…
In some early silent films one of the main characters will face the camera or at least what it appears…