Essays, interviews, archives, and video resources on early cinema — curated reading on films, directors, and movements across the silent and early sound eras.
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Beatrice Loayza · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
20 MAY 2025
This talk took place on April 7, 2025, as part of Type@Cooper's Lubalin Lecture Series. The series archive is made possible by the generous support of TypeCulture. Until the advent of talking pictures in the early 1930s, cinema had been referred to as silent. To compensate for the absence of sound, films were punctuated by numerous ‘intertitles’ or ‘cards’ containing a fixed text, interspersed among the sequences of moving images. These intertitles transcribed the dialogue or provided written information deemed necessary for the action to unfold or for a narrative situation to be properly understood.
Julien Van Anholt · The Cooper Union
07 APR 2025
Michael Atkinson · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
12 FEB 2025
Chris Edwards · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
12 FEB 2025
Matthew Kennedy · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
12 FEB 2025
Farran Smith Nehme · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
12 FEB 2025
J. B. Kaufman · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Scott Simmon · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Devika Girish · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Michael Atkinson · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
David Thomson · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Pamela Hutchinson · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Steve Massa · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Leonard Maltin · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Thomas Gladysz · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Anton Kaes · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
David Pierce · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
19 APR 2024
Bryony Dixon · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
18 APR 2024
Editor · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
18 APR 2024
Farran Smith Nehme · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
18 APR 2024
Lisa Stein Haven · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
18 APR 2024
Marilyn Ferdinand · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
18 APR 2024
Kevin Brownlow · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
18 APR 2024
Miguel Pendás · San Francisco Silent Film Festival
18 APR 2024