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Essays, interviews, programme notes and archives about early cinema, from the festivals, critics and archives that publish them. Every entry opens on the publisher's own site.

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Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Waxworks
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Tol'able David
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Judex
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On West of Zanzibar
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On A Trip to the Moon
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Michel Strogoff
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Chess Fever
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On The Forty-First
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On The Big Swallow
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Aelita: Queen of Mars
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On The Immigrant
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On The Penalty
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On Show People
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On The Wind
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★★ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Essay
Movies Silently Review ★★★★½ (opens moviessilently.com in a new tab)
On The Bargain
Distributor
Flicker Alley - FUSION SERIES (BLU-RAY) (opens flickeralley.com in a new tab)
The film was restored by Blackhawk Films in 2024 from a first generation 35mm safety print and a 16mm dupe negative. It is presented with two different scores: an original piano composition by Antonio Coppola and an original orchestral score by Alloy Orchestra, recorded live in 2013.
On He Who Gets Slapped
Essay
Sunrise (opens rogerebert.com in a new tab)
Roger Ebert's review (2004)
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Essay
F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise, the 1927 Masterpiece Voted the 5th Best Movie of All Time (opens openculture.com in a new tab)
Open Culture article, with video
On Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Essay
How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902) (opens openculture.com in a new tab)
Article from Open Culture
On A Trip to the Moon
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens filmpreservation.org in a new tab)
This film is also availalble to view, with additional information, at the National Film Preservation Foundation's Screening Rom
On The Toll of the Sea
Essay
Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (opens publicdomainreview.org in a new tab)
From The Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes explores Hollywood's first natural-color feature film and the breakout role for Anna May Wong
On The Toll of the Sea
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens filmpreservation.org in a new tab)
This film is also available through the National Film Preservation Foundation
On The Bargain
Foundation
NFPF Screening Room (opens filmpreservation.org in a new tab)
You can view this film and learn more via the Screening Room of the National Film Preservation Foundation
On The Big Show

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