Silent Cinema Salon

Your portal to the silent film era.

Bookshelf

Plain book cover with text "Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts by George Bernard Shaw. Rough Proof - Unpublished"

Pygmalion

Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw’s play about the power of phonetics to disrupt the social protection of income inequality, was first

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Peter Pan

The Book Actually, J.M. Barrie published three things about Peter Pan. The first was six chapters in the middle of

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A photo of books in our glass-fronted bookcase.

Bookshelf

This bookshelf holds not only books, but other sorts of literature as well – magazines, pamphlets and other ephemera that

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Image shows the original cover of the book with woman in a green cloche hat

The Green Hat

A melodrama of postwar England and Europe, this novel was the basis for the 1928 Metro feature film “A Woman

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