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 Silent film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Film speed is often a vexed issue among scholars and film buffs in the presentation of silents today, especially when it comes to DVD releases of "restored" films; the 2002 restoration of Metropolis (Germany, 1927) may be the most fiercely debated example.
Since silent films had no synchronized sound for dialogue, onscreen intertitles were used to narrate story points, present key dialogue and sometimes even comment on the action for the cinema audience.
Overacting in silent films was sometimes a habit actors transferred from their stage experience and directors who understood the intimacy of the new medium discouraged it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silent_film   (1797 words)

  
 Arbucklemania: The Official Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle Web Site
One of the geniuses of the silent cinema,
www.silent-movies.com /Arbucklemania/home.html   (45 words)

  
 SFSC Home
The Silent Film Society and Chicago Area Theatre Organ Enthusiasts (CATOE) are proud to co-present the 1926 silent comedy Mantrap on Sunday, May 7, 2006, at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, IL.
With 80 percent of all silent film prints gone forever, the Society's goal is to heighten public awareness to expedite film preservation.
In addition to silent film screenings, the Society's ongoing projects include a field trip program for children in grades 5 through 12 called Discovering the Silent Cinema, as well as its highly acclaimed Silent Summer Film Festival.
www.silentfilmchicago.com   (257 words)

  
 Category:Silent film actors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some silent film actors and actresses had careers that only spanned the silent film era.
The following is a list of actors and actresses who first became popularly known to the public in the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s.
Others however, maintained careers with the advent of sound film, or talkies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Silent_film_actors   (135 words)

  
 Greatest Silent Films
Silent Films are the films of the early era that were without synchronized sound, from the earliest film (around 1891), until 1927, when the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer (1927) was produced, although there were a few other 'silents' later on, such as
The most-remembered films from the silent years are the visual comedies from the Mack Sennett Keystone Kops series, starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and slapstick from the 'silent clowns.' Tragi-comic superstar Charlie Chaplin is most noted for The Kid (1921), his classics including
Calling them silent films is something of a misnomer - movie theatres and other dream palaces provided pianists, wurlitzers, and other sound machines, and some films were produced with complete musical scores.
www.filmsite.org /silentfilms.html   (420 words)

  
 Silent Film
Sadie Thompson proved to be a landmark of the silent film era.
The 1928 silent classic Sadie Thompson, starring Gloria Swanson, is available exclusively from Kino International (the film) and Ballerbach (the music).
"Turrin's charming score enhances a unique classic silent film experience.
ballerbach.com /silent.html   (336 words)

  
 Silent Orchestra Film Screenings
The silent film screening was a new experience for most of the percussionistas in the audience.
April 13, 2002, 7PM - The Silent Wilderness: The Adventure Films of Nell Shipman
Silent Orchestra was one of the featured acts for the opening session called "Wired for Percussion." Rich was in the spot light with his electric vibes, samplers and Kat MIDI controller.
www.silentorchestra.com /silent_film_screenings.html   (910 words)

  
 The Silent Westerns
Also, the silent film was a vehicle well suited for the transmission of myths to American audiences, many of whom in the earliest days of silent film were recent immigrants.
Though motion pictures are a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon, the silent westerns represent "old myths in new packages"; one critic in 1919 even called them the "modern dime novels." Silent film perpetuates old myths of the West, but it is in many ways a unique medium.
The power of motion pictures to transmit American myths was not lost on contemporaries of silent film.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/HNS/Westfilm/west.html   (329 words)

  
 Silent Film Sources- Silent Films Availability in the U.S.
Silent films are a distinct art form, and when properly presented, they have their own qualities.
The emphasis is on the better films because they represent the potential of the art and storytelling of silent film.
Silent films are in distribution on video in editions of varying quality.
www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm   (454 words)

  
 Film History of the 1920s
Films varied from sexy melodramas and biblical epics by Cecil B. DeMille, to westerns (such as Cruze's The Covered Wagon (1923)), horror films, gangster/crime films, war films, the first feature documentary or non-fictional narrative film (Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922)), romances, mysteries, and comedies (from the silent comic masters Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd).
Film theaters and studios were not initially affected in this decade by the Crash in late 1929.
Films really blossomed in the 1920s, expanding upon the foundations of film from earlier years.
www.filmsite.org /20sintro.html   (2406 words)

  
 Metropolis (1927)
The meticulous design of the film, the unerring camera placement and Lang's muscular choreography of the crowd scenes are breathtaking.
Over a quarter of the film has to be considered lost.
As "exaggerated" as the style of acting seems by contemporary standards, some performances, such as the Master of the city, are amazingly nuanced and layered, and Brigitte Helm is stunning as both Maria and her evil clone.
www.imdb.com /Title?0017136   (525 words)

  
 The Paramount and Moore Theatres 2005/2006 Season
It was also the first film of the Colored Players Film Corporation of Philadelphia and is a rare surviving silent example of what the movie industry once labeled "race movies" - films with African American casts intended for African American audiences.
Silent Films - Silent Movie Mondays: Adventure Series
The Paramount Theatre An annual tradition at the historic Paramount Theatre, Silent Movie Mondays celebrates adventure films during the month of August.
www.theparamount.com /season/films.asp   (1066 words)

  
 Silent Film Screenings
There are no silent film screenings at MOMA in May, but they'll be showing a ton of Hitchcock -- everything from "Waltzes from Vienna" to "Vertigo." I thought of listing all the Hitchcock films here (even though they're all sound films), but there are just too many of them -- 64 screenings in May alone.
On occasion a sound film by a filmmaker noted for his silent films may be listed as well.
There is an ongoing retrospective of the films of Alfred Hitchcock, both silent and sound, being held at MOMA.
members.aol.com /Feuillade/TomMoran17.index.html   (411 words)

  
 Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about silent film: Online resources
He was the Pee Wee Herman of the silents, and for a time he rivaled Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd as one of the finest feature film comedians.
This is a monthly periodical devoted to classic film; most issues contain information on silent film personalities and silent film festivals.
This is another great resource for general information on silent film; for silent film showings; and for tons of links to other silent film sites.
www.vex.net /~emily/film/amsfaq/online.html   (1383 words)

  
 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
The Silent Film Festival is a nonprofit organization founded to educate the public about silent film as an art form and its cultural value as a historical record.
We present an annual festival of silent films accompanied by live music at a silent era movie palace, the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
Coming Soon: The 11th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival July 14, 15, and 16, 2006 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
www.silentfilm.org /home.htm   (155 words)

  
 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
The fact that this film is still very powerful therefore almost entirely depends on his unworldly character.
And, even though this film is over 80 years old, Schreck's image is still as nightmarish as it can be.
Silent classic based on the story "Dracula." (more)
us.imdb.com /Title?0013442   (587 words)

  
 The Silent Film Bookshelf
The filming and projection standard for sound films is 24 frames per second (fps), but silent films would be filmed and shown at speeds ranging from 12-26 fps.
When silent films were first released, the music was as important to the experience as the film itself.
While the silent screen robbed audiences of her voice, she proved to be an instinctive actress with a commanding screen presence.
www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf   (5159 words)

  
 Silent Running
The final images are some of the most powerful seen in science fiction films, both sad and optimistic : the forest tended by the remaining robot, with a battered watering can, all alone.
This is a wonderful film, which never relies on effects to tell the story.
Below are thumbnail images which link to full-size scans of some black and white publicity stills from the film, scans from the laserdisc cover, and various pressbook and other images.
shipofdreams.net /sfmovies/silent.htm   (733 words)

  
 Silent Killer Film - The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger
Silent Killer Film - The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger
www.silentkillerfilm.org   (9 words)

  
 About Donald Sosin - Silent Film Music
In 2001 he and his wife, actress/singer Joanna Seaton, participated in a colloquium on silent film music at the Berlin Filmmuseum.
Donald Sosin has been enthralling audiences in the US and Europe with his silent film music for over thirty years.
He was the resident film accompanist at MoMA in the late 70's, and returns there frequently as a guest pianist (Dec. 2005 Chinese series in progress: see the schedule page).For many years has performed at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the BAM Rose Cinema, and the Lincoln Center Film Society.
silent-film-music.com /sosin.htm   (632 words)

  
 Ben Model silent film music schedule 2005
This is the 4th year the Burns Film Center has rung in the new year with a silent film accompanied by Ben Model, and the show always sells out a day or two ahead of time, so be sure to buy tix online.
Silent film assembly presented in the evening at program for GandT teens, held on various college campuses (these shows are not open to the general public):
The film's NYC exteriors were shot on location, and include scenes of the Plaza Hotel, the Trocadero in Long Island, and a double-decker bus chase up 5th Avenue in the rain.
users.rcn.com /manaben/silentfilmmusic/sched2005.html   (3046 words)

  
 Silent Film
In any case, silent film is an art form all its own, and there are numerous sites on the Web devoted to the movies, their directors, and their stars.
Silent film fans are fond of saying that silent films were never really silent.
Even if you never saw a silent film shown the way it was supposed to be shown, at the correct speed and with the right music, you'll enjoy visiting these sites.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa010498.htm   (853 words)

  
 The Silent Clowns Film Series
The Silent Clowns Film Series, New York's longest-running regularly-scheduled showcase for classic silent film comedy, screens the movies of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Lloyd and more.
This film series is a production of Silent Cinema Presentations, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
The Silent Clowns Film Series holds its shows at
www.silentclowns.com   (246 words)

  
 AFI CATALOG
Entries for silent films produced after 1911 are for feature-length films only.
The AFI Catalog Silent Film database contains over 25,000 entries for silent American films from the years 1893-1930.
With funding provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, entries for more than 750 silent feature films also include information on availability and sources for VHS tapes (NTSC) and DVDs (Region 1).
www.afi.com /members/catalog/silentHome.aspx?s=1   (99 words)

  
 Silent Film Music Live and Recorded by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton
Donald Sosin announces the release of fifteen new silent film scores for avant-garde films on DVD in the UNSEEN CINEMA 7-disc set from Image.
Silent movies were never silent; they had musical accompaniments by piano, organ or even a full orchestra.
Among the films is the first American avant-garde film, MANHATTA, by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, based on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
www.silent-film-music.com   (524 words)

  
 Silent But Deadly
SILENT BUT DEADLY, the new short film by Jeff Cioletti and Lou Tambone has now been officially released and is available at ATOM FILMS.
SILENT BUT DEADLY, written, produced and directed by Northern New Jersey natives Jeff Cioletti and Lou Tambone, received an honorable mention in the Spirit of Fandom category and was the runner-up in the Audience Choice category in 2002’s inaugural competition.
The film was not only featured in the regular news section, but a still from the film was used on the front page of Starwars.com, which is very cool.
www.fadproductions.com /sbd   (4056 words)

  
 Boing Boing: Max Fleischer advertising silent film from 1927
Beautifully preserved silent advertising film from Max Fleischer.
The print for this film is in excellent condition and a fine example of Fleischer's style of the period.
The film starts off with a man trying to talk into a phone while trying to smoke a cigar.
www.boingboing.net /2005/07/24/max_fleischer_advert.html   (316 words)

  
 Amazon.com: American Silent Film: Books: William K. Everson
The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol by Edoardo Ballerini
This books is an excellent introduction to silent film, yet a person familiar with the topic will not be able to put it down either.
This book, written by the late film expert William K. Everson, is one of the best that you will read on silent film.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306808765?v=glance   (1110 words)

  
 Silent Film Music, by Ben Model
Ben composes all his own scores, and performs in a style that is both evocative of the silent era and also aware of a contemporary (and younger) audience's awareness of music and film scoring.
Ben Model is a silent film accompanist for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY.
While playing for these classes, he sought out and learned silent film accompaniment technique from veteran accompanist Lee Erwin, who passed away in September 2000, at age 92; Lee was in high demand, touring and playing right up until he was 90.
users.rcn.com /manaben/music   (590 words)

  
 Silent Film Classic Speaks Through Music
Yamaha C7 conservatory grand piano at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY for the November screening of the 1925 MGM silent film classic, Ben Hur, “You could feel the electricity.
Sara Davis Buechner practices the musical score for the 1925 silent film "Ben Hur"
She has always been “passionate” about silent movies, watching them on TV ever since she was a child.
www.yamaha.com /publications/accent/Accent202/17silentfilm.html   (331 words)

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