Someone brought this up in comments a few months ago but I never posted what is by far the greatest traffic safety film ever made. The great stuff is in the last 5 minutes or so. Well worth your 15 minutes on a Friday night....
silent film
I had a bit of a silent comedy fest last night. I watched Just Neighbors with Harold Lloyd, Hustling for Health with Stan Laurel, and Kid Auto Races at Venice,.
Geoffrey O'Brien has a great essay on silent films in the New York Review of Books. A very small selection: The seduction of silent cinema is the seduction of a.
The last structure from the early New York film industry is in trouble. The old Vitagraph studio lot in Brooklyn is long gone, but its smokestack remains. It is falling apart and needs restoration. Here's a petition to make that happen. This is a neat...
Given the day's rather bizarre turn here, it seems like a good enough time to remind all of you with Netflix account that Traffic in Souls, the ridiculous 1913 film.