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Book Release, Silent Movies, and an Amazing Cellist - You are Invited!

03/23/2014

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All Movies Love the Moon is Available for Pre-Order!

02/21/2014

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It is available here: http://www.rosemetalpress.com/Catalog/robinson.html
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Multiple Voices at Once in *It's the Old Army Game*

02/10/2014

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Starring Louise Brooks. Titles by Ralph Spence. A good copy is up on youtube here.
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Early Version of All Movies, before it became All Movies...

02/04/2014

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Restoring Intolerance (the movie, not actual intolerance).

11/06/2013

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The Cohen film collection posted a split screen restoration of Intolerance, showing how much life can be given back to a movie. Film restoration specialists are a bit like doctors whose patients 
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The Ship of Theseus

11/05/2013

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From the novel S, a close relative of Pale Fire and House of Leaves.
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Female Film Pioneers

11/03/2013

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Drop whatever it is you are doing and check out the Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia. It is a remarkable look at women in early cinema. It has an entire section on women who worked as title writers, including

Hettie Gray Baker: “a writer of motion picture titles and scenarios; of library science, theatre, and fan magazine articles; and, later in life, of highly regarded books about cats”

And Katherine Hilliker, who worked on the famous titles from Sunrise:



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A Very Ancient Man 

10/04/2013

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from Marjorie Charles Driscoll, published in Motion Picture Classics in 1928, The beginning kind of reminds me of Stephen Crane's "In the Desert"

I met a very ancient man

with gray and revered head.

"It is growing dark," I said to him,

And this is what he said.

"Drifting shadows crept over the

World as suppliant Day knelt at the

threshold of Night, pleading for the

black of darkness."

I looked up at him in mild surprise,

He wept "Ah, well-a-day!

I once wrote titles for the films,

And now I talk this way!



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A Tart Ending

09/27/2013

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R.R. King from Intertitle-o-Rama told me about The Sentimental Bloke, an Australian film from 1919 featuring the poetry of CJ Dennis. This title stood out a bit. What exactly constitutes a tart conclusion is debatable, but I am guessing that it is not good.
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Atheist Meets Religious Guy, Drama Ensues

09/26/2013

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She finds God, of course, but I would love to see a remake where she converts him to atheism and they still end up okay.
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