Episode #21 of The Silent Comedy Watch Party will stream live on Sunday August 9, 2020 at 3 pm EDT.…
On this episode Ben talks about meeting an audience’s expectations of a score when a certain piece of music or…
Episode #16 of The Silent Comedy Watch Party will stream live on Sunday July 5, 2020 at 3 pm EDT.…
Episode #07 of The Silent Comedy Watch Party will stream live on Sunday May 3, 2020 at 3pm EDT. Co-hosts…
One of the reasons a majority of people associate the piano with silent film, as opposed to theatre organ or…
Ernie Kovacs played one version of “Captain Buzzkill” or another in most of the movies he made for Columbia. He…
One of my favorite sounds at a silent film show is that of kids’ laughter over the laughs of the…
A number of personal, “tone-poem” slice-of-life films were made at the tail end of the silent era. The ones often…
A couple weeks ago TCM aired The Love Light with Mary Pickford, and there was some Twitter chatter I picked…
Honoring the Gag Work in a Silent Comedy Sometimes Involves a Doing a Little Homework and Then Sharing Your Findings…