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• And now for something almost completely different

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  www.slapstick.org.uk The sixth edition of Bristol’s Slapstick festival takes place 21-24 January 2010. As in past years, the programme combines classic comedy from the past with the comedians of today. This year the star attraction is former Python Michael Palin, who will be featured in Michael Palin: Something ...
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• Santa Claus in The Movies

  
  6 Things To Consider — Authority: 126
  Silent Santa’: SANTA CLAUS AND THE CHILDREN (1898) SANTA CLAUS (1899) SANTA CLAUS FILLING STOCKINGS (1897) SANTA CLAUS’ VISIT (1900) WAITING FOR SANTA CLAUS (1901) AN UNEXPECTED SANTA CLAUS (1908) A TRAP FOR SANTA CLAUS (1909) THE ADVENTURE OF THE WRONG SANTA CLAUS (1914) SANTA CLAUS VS. CUPID (1915) THE ...
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• Lupe Velez: When Shame, Abortion and Suicide Collide

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 748
  Lupe Velez, The Mexican Spitfire. The lives of Hollywood stars are frequently tragic and messy tales of absent fathers, cruelly ambitious mothers, and madly dysfunctional families. Mexican-American actress, Lupe Velez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944) “The Mexican Spitfire” was a beautiful, passionate, ...
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• iCUBED silent film contest

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  Back we go to the modern silent, and to another competition which encourages budding filmmakers to think in a silent way. iCUBED.us is a Hong Kong-based social website for teenagers, and last year it established a one-minute silent film festival/competition. The competition returns this year, in collaboration with ...
  4 days ago

• Fotoplayer redux

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  Maud Nelissen introducing the Fotoplayer A while ago the Bioscope told you about the Fotoplayer , a remarkable form of player piano with added percussion and sound effects used in the silent era to accompany films. I have now added four photographs to the post (one of which is reproduced above), plus an account of ...
  1 week ago

• The Three Must-Get-Theres, and other pleasures

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  Max Linder in The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922), from www.europafilmtreasures.eu Welcome news arrives from silent film musician and composer Maud Nelissen . Europa Film Treasures , the free online library of European films put together by Lobster Films , has published the uproarious Max Linder film The Three ...
  1 week ago

• Photo of the Day: Theda Baras Gown

  
  sighsandwhispers — Authority: 124
  This gown was once owned by the inimitable Theda Bara- it really doesnt get more spectacular than this. Only a star could be worthy of such a gown!
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• Miss Mend

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  The latest DVD from the marvellous Flicker Alley shines a light on a playful and unashamedly entertaining side of Soviet silent cinema that will come as a surprise to some. Miss Mend is a three-part serial from 1926 directed by Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep. The fast-moving, exuberant adventure story emulates the ...
  1 week ago

• Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 487
  Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right)Mike ...
  1 week ago

• Silent movies calendar 2010

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  www.mont-alto.com/Calendar.html 2009 is slipping away, 2010 is clamouring to take over, and it’s time once more for the Silent Movies Benefit Calendar , produced each year by Rodney Sauer of noted silent film musicians the Mont Alto Orchestra . The calendar features photographs of silent film stars contributed ...
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• Silent Hair Inspiration: Long, lazy and loopy

  
  Get some Vintage-a-Peel — Authority: 127
  Madge Bellamy My hair is, quite frankly, ridiculously long right now. I straightened it the other day and it totally, and irrationally, freaked me out. My beloved stylist, Miss Senti, is at the other end of the country and I cant see her for another few weeks. All I can do is pincurl, shake and hope for ...
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• The Wrecker

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  The Wrecker Premiered tomorrow is a new digital restoration of the 1928 British silent The Wrecker , with a new score by Neil Brand . The film, based on a play by Arnold ‘The Ghost Train’ Ridley, was directed by Geza von Bolvary and stars Carlyle Blackwell, Benita Hume and Gordon Harker. It concerns a series ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tony Sarg: Floating Above Reality

  
  TCM's Classic Movie Blog — Authority: 467
  If you are like millions of Americans, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade may be playing as video wallpaper in the background of tomorrow’s holiday hubbub in your household. In between stuffing that turkey and unsuccessfully averting your eyes from the crasser, materialistic moments of the television broadcast, it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chronicling America

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  Cartoon from The Evening World Daily Magazine, 16 January 1909, from http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov A couple of years ago we covered the Library of Congress’ newspaper digitisation project, Chronicling America , alongside a number of other digitised newspaper collections. The resource allows researchers to ...
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• Alice Guy-Blaché: cinema pioneer

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  Madame a des envies (1906), directed by Alice Guy I’m a little late in taking note of an exhibition with associated screenings and events which is running at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer runs 6 November 2009-24 January 2010, and is dedicated to one of the most ...
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• Ken Wlaschin and the silent opera

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  Sadly the death has been announced of Ken Wlaschin, a major figure in American and British film culture for many years. Born in America, Ken came to prominence as head of the National Film Theatre in London, also serving as the director of the London Film Festival from 1969 to 1984. He returned to the States and ...
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• The Silent Robin: A Tonic for the Soul

  
  TCM's Classic Movie Blog — Authority: 467
  I suppose to the eyes of the world, we were a motley looking crew as the capacity crowd flowed eagerly into George Eastman House’s Dryden Theatre in Rochester, New York last month. Unlike the first Hollywood premiere of Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1923) at Sid Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922, ...
  3 weeks ago

• The 32nd Starz Denver Film Festival

  
  TCM's Classic Movie Blog — Authority: 467
  There are thousands of film festivals out there, and most of them are small D.I.Y. affairs that lean heavily on digital projection and extremely low-budget projects that happily take up any host that will notice them. And that’s fine. But I’ve also seen an abuse of local media by some of these overzealous festival ...
  3 weeks ago

• In a world of silence …

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  Silent is the name of an independently-financed feature film three years in the making which premiered in November 2008, and which is currently doing the rounds of festivals. Were it up to me, it would gain an award for its plot idea alone. Its subject is a world such as we understand in silent cinema, where ...
  3 weeks ago

• In the studio

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 414
  The Ambrosio studio during the film of Cenerentola (1913), from www.youtube.com/user/inpenombra There’s always some particularly fascinating about seeing films of films in production from the silent era. The business-like way a team has to go about creating fantasy, the sheer number of people who made up that ...
  3 weeks ago

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