One of the Internet's top sources of information on silent era films, people and theaters. Includes news, top 100 list, home video reviews, book reviews, and more.

Louise Brooks Society a website and online archive devoted to the silent movie star best known for her role as Lulu in the classic German film Pandoras Box. These pages contain vintage articles and interviews, a portrait gallery, filmography, bibliographies, chronology, links and more!

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The Way Out West tent is the Los Angeles chapter of the Sons of the Desert, the international Laurel & Hardy society.

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Silent Star of the Month In the beginning, films were silent. What early filmmakers lacked in sound, they made up with creative and artistic techniques. And it all ended with a jazz singer in the Jazz Age, but the output that survives from the silent period is astonishing, both in quantity and in content. Unfortunately, the new generations are unacquainted with the great pictures and the great ...

Articles on silent film; subjects include actors Lon Chaney and Asta Nielsen, silent film studio Thanhouser Company, and director Allan Dwan ...

MABEL NORMAND HOME PAGE Welcome to the Website Dedicated to Silent Films' Greatest Comedienne! ANNOUNCEMENTS New Archives section added. Mabel Normand: A Source Book to Her Life and Films, the Revised Edition, by yours truly, WiIliam Thomas Sherman, is now available, on a subscrition bases from Cinema Books. For details write or call: Cinema Books 4753 Roosevelt Way N.E. Seattle, WA 98105, ...

Home Page for CINEVENT Classic Film Convention held Annually in Columbus, Ohio You are visitor number: since April 16, 1998. Raymond Griffith stars in YOU'D BE SURPRISED. CINEVENT 34, Coming May 24-27, 2002! CINEVENT Topics Announcing CINEVENT 34, May 24-27, 2002 CINEVENT 34 Film Program Original Announcement for CINEVENT 33, held May, 2001 Original Announcement for CINEVENT 32, held May, 2000 ...

Festival dedicata al cinema muto, festival devoted to the cinema made before the advent of sound ...

In Virgin Land Henry Nash Smith examines the myths of the American West: their origins; their dissemination through forms including popular literature, political speeches and letters; and the dynamic interplay between myth, history, and collective identity. Nash's analysis ends with the last decade of the nineteenth century, but the mythical quality of the West has become an enduring feature of ...

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The best in the world at accompanying silent films. Roger Ebert ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ALLOY ORCHESTRA 613 CAMBRIDGE STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02141, USA TEL: 617-497-6508, FAX: 617-876-5658 All photographs on this site are courtesy of the Museum Of Modern Art unless otherwise noted. ...

Unknown Video celebrates the films of the silent era with silent movies for rent and for sale.

Silent Star of June 1996 Tod Browning The film legacy of Charles Albert Tod Browning in the public mind has been stripped down to two films: Dracula (1931) and Freaks (1932). Lesser known is Browning's beginnings in the silent era, as a stock player in nickelodeon melodramas, to Griffith cast member, and director of the greatest character player ever, Lon Chaney. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, ...

Greatest Silent Films A thorough history of the films of the classic silent era is described in two other places in this site: Greatest Films of the Pre-20s Greatest Films of the 1920s Silent Films are the films of the early era that were without sound, from the earliest film, until 1927, when the first talkie, The Jazz Singer (1927) was produced. Calling them silent films is something of a ...

Nell Shipman was one of the most fascinating pioneer filmmakers of the early Twentieth Century. She was a director, writer, producer and star of both Hollywood and her own independent films.

Lest you forget . . . . Special Ladies I have a definite facination with the four ladies presented here. I collect books and stuff and get the movies whenever I can find them. A confession -- I met them for the first time in that awful book (Hollywood Babylon) as creatures of scandal. But I looked at the faces and I wanted to know about them. Some of them didn't last long enough to become major ...

Silent Star of May 1996 Theda Bara This month's Silent Star of the Month profile on Theda Bara comes courtesy of Eve Golden, author of the recently published Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara, Emprise Publishing Company, Vestal, New York. Theda Bara -- one of the most successful and glamorous stars of the 1910s -- is also the most inaccessible and mysterious today. She stood behind only Mary ...

Silent movie cowboy actor Fred Thomson rivaled Tom Mix in popularity, but he died tragically at the age of 38 just before the Talkies arrived. He was billed as 'The World's Greatest Western Star'. Included are books and videos & DVDs and posters about his life & films.

Silent Stars Dedicated to the Stars of The Silent Screen Welcome to my silent movie star site featuring biographys, filmographys and photo gallerys of my favorite silent movie stars, some famous, some not so famous. I will be adding new material on a regular basis so please drop by again .Please take time to sign my guestbook and feel free to e mail me with any ideas you think may improve my ...