Archival Spaces 381: Identifying Silent Film Actors Uploaded 5 September 2025 Identifying film actors who are not listed in the credits or misidentified can be a tricky business, because available filmographic resources are not always accurate and comparing images can be deceiving. I ran into this problem a number of years ago, when I helpedContinue reading “381: Tamara”
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378: An Early Irish Film
Archival Spaces 378: The Irish Film Company’s Knocknagow (1918) Uploaded 25 July 2025 The San Francisco Film Preservel presented an online lecture by Veronica Johnson on 18 July about the still little-known Film Company of Ireland (1916-1920), focusing on the company’s feature, Knocknagow (1918). An Irish film historian, Dr. Johnson, is following up on workContinue reading “378: An Early Irish Film”
359: Pordenone Silent Films
Archival Spaces 359 Giornate del cinema muto/online Uploaded 1 November 2024 This year’s Giornate del cinema muto again offered a small selection of ten feature films from the festival, as well as selected shorts, mostly little or never seen films from countries as diverse as France, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Germany, Mexico, and the USA. The filmsContinue reading “359: Pordenone Silent Films”
301: Restoring HYPOCRITES (1915)
Archival Spaces 301 Lois Weber’s Hypocrites Restored Uploaded 5 August 2022 Several weeks ago, Phil Carli premiered his new Silent Cinema Salon (https://philipcarli.com/), presenting a new restoration of Lois Weber’s Hypocrites (1915, Lois Weber) in his Rochester living room with live piano accompaniment. Carli is, of course, very well-known in the United States and abroadContinue reading “301: Restoring HYPOCRITES (1915)”
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