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Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #5

November 25, 2020 Ben Model Leave a comment

Ever slam your hand in a door? This is what we played with in the last of the five videos.…

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Posted in: Undercranking Filed under: parallel exit

Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #4

November 24, 2020 Ben Model 3 Comments

One of the facets of silent film, and silent film comedy, is that since the film overall is being projected…

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Posted in: Undercranking Filed under: parallel exit

Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #3

November 21, 2020 Ben Model 5 Comments

There are a few sequences in Chaplin’s “The Pawnshop” (1916) where Charlie and co-worker John Rand engage in slapstick hitting…

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Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #2

November 20, 2020 Ben Model 2 Comments

One of the gags I’ve seen in silent comedies many times that’s really something you’d typically see in an animated…

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Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #1

November 19, 2020 Ben Model 6 Comments

One of my fascinations with silent film is with how it is that it is shown faster than the speed…

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“Her Painted Hero”, Shot Through a Projector

November 16, 2020 Ben Model Leave a comment

I discovered this little nugget about film projection speed in a January 1916 issue of Moving Picture World, a trade…

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Battling the Elements at 16 Frames Per Second

September 19, 2020 Ben Model Leave a comment

Buster Keaton had an astounding grasp of what works at what cranking speed and how best to compensate for these…

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Posted in: Buster Keaton, Language of Silent Film, Undercranking

Undercranking Study: Buster Keaton Trails a Suspect

January 9, 2020 Ben Model 2 Comments

Buster Keaton, along with Larry Semon, made the best use of taking different shots at different cranking speeds within a…

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A Slightly Faster Sunrise

July 11, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

Kevin Brownlow mailed me an item from “Variety” when I was beginning my research on silent film projection and filming…

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Posted in: Language of Silent Film, Undercranking Filed under: f.w. murnau, kevin brownlow, variable speed

Charlie Chaplin and a Stationary Horizon

June 26, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

Something occurred to me during a screening of Chaplin’s The Immigrant (1917) that I was accompanying for a school group…

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Recent Posts

  • ep. 39: “Adventures in Sound!”
  • Rugelach and Gilbert Gottfried: the Gifts that Keep on Giving
  • Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #5
  • Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #4
  • Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #3
  • Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #2
  • Exploring the Speed of Silent Comedy Film – test #1
  • “Her Painted Hero”, Shot Through a Projector
  • To Blu or Not To Blu – Some Final Thoughts
  • Physical Media: “I’m Not Dead Yet”
  • For Some Fans, the Step Up to Blu-ray Means Replacing the Fridge
  • The Blu-ray Difference is Green
  • Being The Warehouse
  • Pressed DVDs vs. Burned
  • Why Isn’t This on Blu-ray? – a blog series
  • Battling the Elements at 16 Frames Per Second
  • ep. 38: scoring for scenes that suggest or specify a piece of music, and scoring a film from 1948
  • ep. 37: Mostly Lost, Keaton’s The Cameraman and The General, an electric organ and Laurel & Hardy
  • ep. 36: scoring Robin Hood and a 1927 Carmen, using the orchestral and cartoony sounds of a theatre organ, more live-streaming
  • ep. 35: Pottery at the Met, Behind the Door in Nebraska, Eisenstein in Bklyn, Clair on Long Island, plus FAQ

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