Blogs about Silent film
9 blogs about Silent film.
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Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more)
by John Bengtson "the great detective of silent film locations" New York Times.
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Mack Swain’s Santa Monica Adventures with Laurel & Hardy, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd Imagine a “lost” silent film providing detailed views of where Laurel & Hardy, Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin once filmed. This time it’s the 1918 Mack Swain L-KO comedy Adventurous Ambrose, …
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Cinematica
Vintage stuff from quieter times. Films, ephemera, housewares, but mostly films.
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The Great Stone Face—-Wasn’t On All Hallow’s Eve, we quite naturally watched Buster Keaton’s 1921 two-reeler, The Haunted House. And of course, there on camera, displayed in all his glory, was The Great Stone Face, as Keaton is known …
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Grace Kingsley's Hollywood
One hundred year old news and gossip, compiled by Lisle Foote.
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A Strange Crime Wave: July 1924 One hundred years ago this week, Grace Kingsley reported on another instance of the oddest trend I’ve found in her columns: there was yet another movie star’s fake brother at large: The Thomas H. Ince …
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Jeff Rapsis / Silent Film Music
Chronicling the ongoing adventure of staging silent film screenings with live music in theaters in New England, USA and elsewhere.
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Next up: Buster Keaton's 'The Cameraman' (1928) on Saturday, July 20 at Brandon (Vt.) Town Hall A promotional still from Buster Keaton's 'The Cameraman' (1928).Timing is everything!Consider: I've developed a case of severe tendonitis in my right arm just as I'm starting a one-month hiatus from silent film accompaniment.Hope that gives …
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Movies Silently
Celebrate Silent Film.
By Fritzi Kramer. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Somebody’s Widow (1918) A Silent Film Review When a ditzy writer and his secretary are the only men at the beach, the young ladies who are frolicking there take it personally when they are completely ignored. The boldest one decides to pose …
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Silent London
A place for people who love silent film.
By Pamela Hutchinson. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
New media nostalgia and the revival of silent cinema style This is an extended and adapted version of a contribution I made at the 2024 Domitor conference in Vienna. I spoke as part of a roundtable on Curating Early Cinema Today, chaired by Maggie Hennefeld. …
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Silent-ology
Uncovering the silent era.
By Lea S. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Reactions To The Paris Premiere Of The New “Napoleon” (1927) Restoration Paris has been all over news a lot lately, thanks to a major event that was scheduled to take place there this very month. Might I add: taking place finally, after years of news, hype, …
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Silver Scenes
Covering the world of classic movies from the silents to the mid 1960s via bios, movie reviews, rare photos and fun trivia.
By Constance Metzinger, Diana Metzinger. More infoUpdated
Master of the World (1961) In Morgantown, Pennsylvania, in 1868, a giant voice was heard booming from the mountain ridge known as The Great Eyrie. It was quoting from the Holy Book. John Strock (Charles Bronson), an agent for the …
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Spite Work: The Trials of Virginia Rappe and Fatty Arbuckle
A reconsideration of the Fatty Arbuckle case of 1921-22 and the life and death of the victim, Virginia Rappe.
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The tears of Crystal Rivers flow—Virginia Rappe’s first flamekeeper To begin the part that narrates—and documents—the first Arbuckle trial, we begin with an anecdote. This is, admittedly, formulaic. You know, what we learn in the writing seminar, the way a piece should begin with …