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Category: Language of Silent Film

“The Language of Silent Film”, Beyond the Blog

May 21, 2022 Ben Model 3 Comments

Last week, I played my first in-person show at the Cinema Arts Centre since February 2020. Before the show, CAC…

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Why We Like Silent Film

October 26, 2021 Ben Model 3 Comments

I hope this series of posts that I began in January 2021 has been useful, educational, thought-provoking or food for…

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Stories for Today, Just Like in the Silent Era

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Like the other points I’ve made about the culture and styles of the era of the 1910s and 1920s being…

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Intertitles for Modern (Contemporary) Times

October 25, 2021 Ben Model Leave a comment

I’ve covered what I’ve observed in titles cards in silent movies from the ‘teens and ‘twenties in a handful of…

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So, You Want To Make a Silent Movie…

October 23, 2021 Ben Model 7 Comments

Making a silent movie sounds like a fun idea, no? Lots of people with movie cameras — 16mm, 8mm, super…

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Silents in the Sound Era

October 17, 2021 Ben Model 2 Comments

There have been a handful of silent movies made over the past several decades that were released commercially. These pictures…

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Keep the Silence, Lose the Linear Narrative

October 13, 2021 Ben Model Leave a comment

It came from France. Ironically similar to the way Sennett was influenced by the physical comedy shorts released by Gaumont…

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The Silent Comedians Hang On

October 6, 2021 Ben Model 3 Comments

The top starring comedians of silent movies were the last to give up the ghost when talking pictures brought the…

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Whatever Happened to Silent Movies?

October 4, 2021 Ben Model 4 Comments

Filmmakers’ love for silent cinema has held on throughout the post-Vitaphone decades, and the form has popped up from time…

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Silent Film and Expectations of Reality

October 2, 2021 Ben Model 1 Comment

What makes Silent Film its own medium, and not merely a genre of film, is its unique and specific messing…

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