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REVENGE starring Dolores Del Rio – hokum, but erotically charged

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 and haven’t had the patience for deciding on frames and clips. It’s already written though. But I […]

The basic visual aesthetics of the silent era pt. 2: lab work and speed

1 Comment / aesthetic, film lab work, film projection, historical, silent film, technical / Jesse Pierce

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 continual, subtle fluctuation. For most of the silent era, motion picture film, camera negative as well as positive prints, were processed by hand via

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