The Silent Film Universe: Chapter Supplements
Video clips related to the chapters in The Silent Film Universe are listed here, as well as links and other addenda, as a supplement to the book. The way I’ve laid it out is as a Table of Contents with hyperlinks to individual pages for each chapter.
Foreword & Introduction
Photos and background about Jeanine Basinger and Walter Kerr. Click or tap here.
Chapter 1 – Motion Picture Film, and What it Can and Cannot Capture
Video clip from:
- Mel Brooks’s Silent Movie (1976) – scene with Marcel Marceau
- Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922)
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Chapter 2 – An Opportunity for a Storytelling Shorthand
Excerpt from Move Along (1926) starring Lloyd Hamilton, plus an image of a Venn diagram illustrating the silent film experience.
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Chapter 3 – Silent Film’s Accomplice: Your Right Brain
Audio recordings from live performances for a school assembly and for a huge audience in South Korea.
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Chapter 4 – Silent Film’s Soundscape
Video clips from:
- Buster Keaton’s One Week (1920)
- Harold Lloyd’s The Kid Brother (1927).
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Chapter 5 – Iconography and Archetypes
Video clips from:
- Sunrise (1927), directed by F.W. Murnau
- Bumping Into Broadway (1919), starring Harold Lloyd
- He Who Gets Slapped (1925), directed by Victor Seastrom
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Chapter 6 – Silent Film Leaves It Out, We Fill It In
Video clips from:
- The Mark of Zorro (1920) starring Douglas Fairbanks
- Mother (1926), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin:
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Chapter 7 – Silent Film’s Use of Text
Video clips from:
- The Evidence of the Film (1914), by Thanhouser Film Corp.
- Local Showers (1916), from the “Mishaps of Musty Suffer” comedy serial
- Orphans of the Storm (1921), directed by D.W. Griffith
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Chapter 8 – Performance Techniques in Silent Film
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Chapter 9 – The Speed(s) of Silent Film
Video clips from:
- The employment office scene from Charlie Chaplin’s A Dog’s Life (1918)
- Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (1925)
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Chapter 10 – Silent Film After the Silent Era
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Chapter 11 – The Future of Silent Film
Read supplemental text on titling practices and styles, referenced on p. 178.
Watch Jeff Seal’s silent comedy short A Day’s Messing (2011)
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Epilogue
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