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The Metropolis case
Fritz Rasp as the spy Schmale © Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung; Bildbearbeitung: Dennis Neuschäfer-Rube A day on from all the excitement of the news that a print of the previously ‘lost’, complete...
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Silents in Latin America
Clockwise from top left: La Venus de nácar (Venezuela 1932), Braza dormida (Brazil 1928), Del pingo al volante (Uruguay 1928); El húsar de la muerte (Chile 1925), Luis Prado (Peru 1927), El automóvil...
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Jornada Brasileira de Cinema Silencioso
http://www.cinemateca.gov.br/jornada Having told you a short while ago about Brazilian silent film journals available online, now it’s time to let you know (courtesy of the Pordenone film festival...
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Filming football
Vuvuzelas, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/football. To listen to the sound (if you must), try this. It’s the World Cup, and I’ve been rediscovering silent football. The high decibel sound of the...
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Brazilian journey
http://www.cinemateca.gov.br/jornada Last year we noted for the first time the remarkable festival of silent film in Brazil, the Jornada Brasiliera de Cinema Silencioso or Brazilian Journey of Silent...
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Wara Wara
Trailer for the restored Wara Wara Those who bemoan lost silent films, particularly in a national context, might like to consider the situation in Bolivia. Just the one silent fiction film survives of...
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Three Mexican silents
The Cineteca Nacional after the fire On 24 March 1982 fire broke out in Mexico’s national film archive, the Cineteca Nacional. Smoke was reported as coming out of all four vaults (one of which held...
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Looking back on 2010
Lillian Gish knows just what it’s like in north Kent, from Way Down East The snows of winter are piling up in fantastic drifts about the portals of Bioscope Towers. Icy blasts find their way through...
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O Pioneers!
https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu I have two definitions of what history is, which I have proposed before now and which I propose again: 1. History is what was known once but has been forgotten 2....
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