Blogs about Silent film

Hollywood was a small, undeveloped community during the early years of cinema. Cahuenga Blvd, now a major thoroughfare, once ran south for two blocks from Hollywood Blvd past Selma to where it ended at Sunset …

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 …

Chaplin’s reproduction of the rugged camp really did clutter the base of some precipitous cliffs! One hundred years ago this month, Grace Kingsley reported on a movie that lots of people were looking forward to: …

Original promotional art for Emil Jannings in 'The Last Command' (1928).Just a few notes prior to heading out to Cleveland to do music this Friday for 'The Last Command' (1928), one of the greatest silents …

Rod La Rocque plays the son of a famously cowardly captain who fears that he has inherited his father’s cravenness. Only his girlfriend, Jacqueline Logan, believes in him. Will he finally prove that he has …

Devon. I’m in Devon. And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak. This evening, at the Plymouth Arts Cinema I had the honours of introducing a screening of the modern silent that made …

If I seemed absent for the past week or so, it’s because I had the joy of finally returning to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival for the first time since 2019! (Gee, I wonder …

Good heavens! Just when you think these games couldn't get any harder, you see a scene like this....blurry men walking blurry dogs. It just happens to be a lousy screenshot, because the film is quite …

The following passage from our work-in-progress. Here we end our discussion of Virginia Rappe’s mother, Mabel Rapp and segue from her involvement with a wealthy young Chicago black sheep and check forger to her untimely …