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…
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…