Ever slam your hand in a door? This is what we played with in the last of the five videos.…
One of the facets of silent film, and silent film comedy, is that since the film overall is being projected…
There are a few sequences in Chaplin’s “The Pawnshop” (1916) where Charlie and co-worker John Rand engage in slapstick hitting…
One of the gags I’ve seen in silent comedies many times that’s really something you’d typically see in an animated…
One of my fascinations with silent film is with how it is that it is shown faster than the speed…
I discovered this little nugget about film projection speed in a January 1916 issue of Moving Picture World, a trade…
Buster Keaton had an astounding grasp of what works at what cranking speed and how best to compensate for these…
Buster Keaton, along with Larry Semon, made the best use of taking different shots at different cranking speeds within a…
Kevin Brownlow mailed me an item from “Variety” when I was beginning my research on silent film projection and filming…
Something occurred to me during a screening of Chaplin’s The Immigrant (1917) that I was accompanying for a school group…