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This Month's Theme: Lost Films

1912's Saved from the Titanic film poster.
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Saved from the Titanic (1912): The First Titanic Movie

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Wreckage of the 1937 Fox Vault Fire lading to numerous lost silent films
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My Top 20 Most Wanted Lost Silent Films

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Romeo and Juliet (1916): Two Dueling Screen Adaptations

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The Miracle Man (1932): Remaking a Silent Classic

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Riders of the Purple Sage — Book Review

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  • Walter Kerr’s The Silent Clowns on Buster Keaton OneWeek1920Crowbar
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    Walter Kerr’s The Silent Clowns on Buster Keaton

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  • Almost Human (1927): Rare Film Stuck in the Doghouse Still of Hank the dog, Vera Reynolds, and Kenneth Thomson.
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    Almost Human (1927): Rare Film Stuck in the Doghouse

    December 15, 2023 0
  • Dante’s Inferno (1911): The First Feature-Length Horror Film LInferno_1911
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    Dante’s Inferno (1911): The First Feature-Length Horror Film

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  • The Birth of a Nation’s Legacy: Separating Myth from Fact The KKK torture Gus in The Birth of a Nation
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    The Birth of a Nation’s Legacy: Separating Myth from Fact

    August 31, 2025 0
  • The Ultimate Genre Guide to Silent Movies SilentMovieDayPoster
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    The Ultimate Genre Guide to Silent Movies

    September 29, 2022 14
  • Edmund Lowe: The Wisecracking Wonder A young Edmund Lowe in profile
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    Edmund Lowe: The Wisecracking Wonder

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  • Josef von Sternberg from The Salvation Hunters to Anatahan Georgie Hale on the dock in Josef von Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters.
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    Josef von Sternberg from The Salvation Hunters to Anatahan

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  • The Unchanging Sea (1910): A Nickelodeon Tear-Jerker TheUnchangingSea2
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    The Unchanging Sea (1910): A Nickelodeon Tear-Jerker

    May 12, 2025 9
  • Introducing A New Silent Film YouTube Channel Forgotten Silver (1925)
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    Introducing A New Silent Film YouTube Channel

    April 26, 2026 1
  • Clara Bow: The Life and Career of Hollywood’s IT Girl Video Clara Bow
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    Clara Bow: The Life and Career of Hollywood’s IT Girl Video

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Variety (1925) – The Unchained Camera Vareity1925-Trapeze
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Variety (1925) – The Unchained Camera

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Variety (1925) is a German silent film that takes a pretty traditional love triangle and adds...

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Roman Holiday: The Power of Silence Close-up of Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.
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Roman Holiday: The Power of Silence

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Sometimes we let a genre fool us. Whether horror, melodrama, or romance, in the case of...

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) – Cinema’s Pioneering Nightmare Francis talks to an old man on a park bench in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) – Cinema’s Pioneering Nightmare

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Few films have been as influential as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Released in 1920, this...

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The Unexpected Comedy of Raymond Griffith Raymond Griffith smiles as he handcuffs a suspect in You'd Be Surprised
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The Unexpected Comedy of Raymond Griffith

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Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd are firmly on the Mt. Rushmore of silent comedians; the fourth face...

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Joyless Street (1925) – A Bleak Snapshot of Post-WWI Europe Joyless-Street-2
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Joyless Street (1925) – A Bleak Snapshot of Post-WWI Europe

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When most people think of German silent cinema, the mind often jumps to the bold stylization...

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Introducing A New Silent Film YouTube Channel Forgotten Silver (1925)
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Introducing A New Silent Film YouTube Channel

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You may have noticed over the last few months I’ve been posting less on my blog;...

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Walter Kerr’s The Silent Clowns on Buster Keaton OneWeek1920Crowbar
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Walter Kerr’s The Silent Clowns on Buster Keaton

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None of the limitations of the silent screen then, seemed limitations to its...

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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) – Dreyer’s Silent Masterpiece ThePassionofJoanofArc-1928-5
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) – Dreyer’s Silent Masterpiece

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Despite this being her only major on-screen film role, theater actress Maria Falconetti delivers one of...

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Dante’s Inferno (1911): The First Feature-Length Horror Film LInferno_1911
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Dante’s Inferno (1911): The First Feature-Length Horror Film

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Horror was not recognized as a movie genre until the Pre-Code years, when Universal’s smash hits Dracula and Frankenstein solidified...

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Big Business (1929) – Laurel and Hardy’s Silent-Era Smash-Up Laurel and Hardy create fight in Big Business.
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Big Business (1929) – Laurel and Hardy’s Silent-Era Smash-Up

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Laurel and Hardy are best known for their 1930s and ’40s films, but their rise to...

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