In the previous two posts we looked at what I consider to be some of the basic components of the visual aesthetics of films from the silent era: the use of orthochromatic film, their use of color, the...

Pardon for this not being the final installment on the basic aesthetics of the silent era, but I was buying a house and it closed about a month earlier than expected and I’ve been immersed in a move...

rack and tank film processing Another visual quality characteristic of the silent era you might notice is a pulsating in the image.  The blacks do not stay at a constant level, but in a...

If you are new to films from the silent era, you may have noticed a distinctive look to the image, or depending on what you’ve seen, even thought the films look bad due to early technology being primitive...

Hello, you don’t know me, but I want to talk to you about silent film.  For my credentials: I am a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum....