I hope this series of posts that I began in January 2021 has been useful, educational, thought-provoking or food for…
Like the other points I’ve made about the culture and styles of the era of the 1910s and 1920s being…
I’ve covered what I’ve observed in titles cards in silent movies from the ‘teens and ‘twenties in a handful of…
Making a silent movie sounds like a fun idea, no? Lots of people with movie cameras — 16mm, 8mm, super…
There have been a handful of silent movies made over the past several decades that were released commercially. These pictures…
It came from France. Ironically similar to the way Sennett was influenced by the physical comedy shorts released by Gaumont…
The top starring comedians of silent movies were the last to give up the ghost when talking pictures brought the…
Filmmakers’ love for silent cinema has held on throughout the post-Vitaphone decades, and the form has popped up from time…
What makes Silent Film its own medium, and not merely a genre of film, is its unique and specific messing…
A brief coda about Silent Film projection speed(s) before I move on to the next overall topic. And that is…