Since warm weather has arrived, now is the perfect time to venture outside with a classic film book to get our day’s Vitamin D before heading back inside to catch TCM’s primetime showing of the day. For my third time participating in Raquel Stecher’s Summer …
Continue ReadingThe Grim Game (1919): Death-Defying Aerial Magic
Aviation and film took the world by storm in the early 20th century. Just eight years after the Lumiere brothers’ famed 1895 projected screenings, Orville and Wilbur Wright took their first flight in December 1903. By the 1910s, film had exploded into an international entertainment …
Continue ReadingA Trip to Salt Lake City (1905) Review
The earliest films relied heavily on other entertainment mediums such as vaudeville, theater, books, and newspapers to create short narratives for audiences. Comedy especially relied on jokes that were prevalent in late 19th and early 20th-century culture. For example, one of the earliest Lumiere films …
Continue ReadingMormons in Classic Hollywood Films
This post is the fourth historical overview in my series Celebrating 125 Years of Utah and the Movies. Visit the series page for previous posts and reviews of films shot in Utah or by Utahns.
Dean Jagger waves to the Salt Lake City …
Continue ReadingUtahns in Classic Film
This post is the third historical overview in my series Celebrating 125 Years of Utah and the Movies. Visit the series page for other historical overviews and reviews of films shot in Utah or made by Utahns.
While Utah failed to compete as an …
Continue Reading1898: Trailblazing Brits and Birth of the Brighton School
To deepen my knowledge of the silent era on the European continent, I created the European Silent Cinema Project. I review two European silent films each year starting in 1895 and ending in 1930. Visit the project’s main page for a comprehensive list of …
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