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…
One of the main reasons a silent film is often run at a more gooey speed is that a decision…
My rule of thumb with projection speeds and silent comedy films used to be guided by whether there were audience…
Some years ago, I made a project of deconstructing Buster Keaton’s The Goat (1921) in a series of undercranking studies…