Silent Cinema Salon

Your portal to the silent film era.

Feel My Pulse is a comedy in which an eccentric millionaire hypochondriac (played by Bebe Daniels) runs from germs to

May 12, 2025

It is extraordinary, in 2025, to look at this 1915 film about immigration, food safety, wealth inequality, and the ways

April 22, 2025

The Virginian, Owen Wister’s classic 1902 novel about the battle between Law and Might and the heart of one western

March 3, 2025

Les Deux Timides is a French film, René Clair’s last silent feature, which hops back and forth between drawing room

January 19, 2025

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a fantastical 1912 Broadway play by Winthrop Ames, was adapted by Ames as a

December 21, 2024

“Yesterday upon the stair I met a man…” and he was me. Doppelgänger – mysterious doubles – have a long

October 5, 2024

Another royal Russian confection. Remember the dark gothic horror of The Queen of Spades? Well, this is not that. Instead

September 11, 2024

This is a favorite film of mine, and one for which Dr. Carli’s accompaniment style is particularly perfect. Lulu Bett,

June 11, 2024

Once again we have a literary adaptation, this time of Pushkin’s novella, The Queen of Spades. His ghost story is

April 30, 2024

The Informer of 1929 is a perfect example of disruptive technology; it exists both as an elegant precursor of film

March 2, 2024

What if O. Henry had spun out any of his witty short stories in longer form? Young Romance is an

February 11, 2024

The Regeneration is one of the great no-longer-lost films of the early silent period. The first gangster feature and the

January 21, 2024