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Starring Louise Brooks. Titles by Ralph Spence. A good copy is up on youtube here.

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 

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

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:

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!

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.

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.