Shawn Hall After his 14-film screen partnership with Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton took over the Comique comedy unit...
Blogathons
Posts from classic film blogathons that I have been a part of.
I’m trying something different to celebrate Silent Movie Day this year. I’ve put together an eight-film...
For the sixth Silent Movie Day (that’s today!) me and <a href="https://silentology.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/announcing-the-return-of-the-silent-movie-day-blogathon/" data-type="link"...
After a couple of years’ hiatus, the Silent Movie Day Blogathon is back! This year I’ll...
Sometimes we let a genre fool us. Whether horror, melodrama, or romance, in the case of...
Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd are firmly on the Mt. Rushmore of silent comedians; the fourth face...
None of the limitations of the silent screen then, seemed limitations to its...
Just a month after the sinking of the Titanic, Saved from the Titanic became the very...
Perhaps no genre gets more flak than the melodrama. Fans enjoy its strong emotions, all-or-nothing stakes,...
1917 proved to be a tumultuous year for Russia: Tsar Nicolas II abdicated his throne and...
