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…
This fall will mark 40 years since I began accompanying silent films. I’ve played to hundreds and hundreds of them,…
I don’t know when I first noticed the aspect of Silent Film that I quasi-retroactively refer to as “undercranking”. It’s…
I remember seeing an interview several years ago with someone involved with Blake Edwards’ “Victor/Victoria“ who said that one of…
Soviet cinema in the 1920s takes the Silent Film use of showing us something that represents a fuller picture for…
Silent Film’s visual shorthand can also ask us to conjure up an event or physical act by not showing it…
The visual shorthand of Silent Film also functions with physical objects. Often, by connecting them with other objects or between…