The day in silents… The Seventh Silent Film Weekender, Kennington Bioscope

A cast of hundreds down Lambeth way with players old and new, many surprises and the nicest crowd you'll ever find! East Lynne and Pompeii the stars but there were more than in MGM!

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A French postcard of Norma Talmadge, one of the brightest stars of the 1920s.

'As the leading distributor of animated cartoons in the 1920s, Margaret J. Winkler played a pivotal role in the professionalization of the animation industry.' wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/margar… #BOTD

'I was so happy to finally return to this glorious festival, where the lure of shimmering celluloid is somehow more beguiling than a sunny springtime day in San Francisco.'

For RogerEbert.com, I went, uh, very long on this year's SF Silent Film Fest

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#sussexsilents

Happy weekend, all! Here's my recap of the 2024 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which ended last Sunday. I hadn't attended since 2019 and it sure felt good to return! silentology.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/rec…

Harold Lloyd was born 131 years ago today, on April 20, 1893

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ithankyou: Boys don’t cry… Two Films by Yasujirố Ozu, BFI Blu-ray out on Monday 22nd!

Two newly restored films about fathers and sons, duty and love. All handled in the way only Ozu can... sublime!

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📰👏🏻 We are screening *multiple* 35mm film prints this Sat/Sun 20/21st April The Cinema Museum in our 7th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend + a Sunday night 9.5mm special, projected live in the room, showing a 93 year old, super-rare tinted print of Metropolis!
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“It’s hell on earth to be heavenly.” Pamela Hutchinson on Clara Bow via #TaylorSwift 🎞️🎶
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Top-notch work from the top silent-film blog. (And thanks for the links! Including the stealth one. 😉)

#HBD to actress/producer Constance Talmadge! wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-co…

I blogged twice in one day. Is this a side-effect of jet lag?

Napoléon vu par Netflix: What next for Abel Gance’s 1927 epic? Longer, wider and wilder, is there no end to the restoration of Gance’s masterpiece?

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4K restoration of Paul Leni’s definitive ‘haunted house’ thriller.

THE CAT AND THE CANARY is to be released for the first time ever on Blu-ray as part of The #MastersofCinema Series.OUT NEXT WEEK from 22/23 April in the 🇬🇧 buff.ly/4ankZEJ & 🇺🇸🇨🇦 buff.ly/4aeoA7M

I'm excited to be joining the editorial team at Early Popular Visual Culture as a special issues editor. Current special issue on British silents, more coming soon tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/22/…

It did! #ClaraBow

Had to be done silentlondon.co.uk/2024/04/19/cla…