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…
The silence in Silent Film can be selective. It’s not just the fact that there were no microphones during filming.…
What struck me and stayed with me for years was the scene in A Dog’s Life (1918) where Charlie is…
At some point when I was in college or somewhere in my 20s, I saw “The Chaplin Revue” at the…
In the same way that silent film can be over-sped, with variable speed projection as an option there’s also the…
Yes, sometimes silent films are run too fast, faster than they ought to be. Some of them, anyway. For a…