‘The Douglas MacLean Collection’ Pokes Fun at Our Love of Clam, Cabbage, and Kale*
Douglas Maclean’s heyday in the early ’20s found him cranking out almost as many comedy films as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd combined.
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Venus as a Boy in Silent Film ‘Little Old New York’
Sidney Olcott's silent film Little Old New York falls into a tradition of men who find themselves strangely attracted to boys that turn out to be girls in disguise.
A Silent Clown Is Given Voice with ‘The Alice Howell Collection’
Silent film actor Alice Howell conveyed the persona of a working-class clodhopper with a huge pile of frizzy hair plopped on top of her head, and she threw herself into physical comedy as much as Lucille Ball.
Silent Film Sleuths Unearth Crusty Gems with ‘Found at Mostly Lost, Vol. 2’
Sponsored by the Library of Congress, Mostly Lost is an annual film workshop in which unidentified or mis-titled silent films are screened to an audience of scholars and fans who try to figure out what they are. Sometimes they succeed.
What’s That You Heard? ‘The Kinetophone: A Fact! A Reality!
Undercrank Productions and the Library of Congress add another diamond to our digitally rich era in these refurbished analog films of Thomas Edison's.