Version: 0.45
Date: 6 January 2012

Silent Film Resources FAQ

This is very much a work in progress. I'm posting it in the hope that it will prove to be useful. Any additions, corrections etc are most gratefully accepted (send them by email to pringle@yoyo.its.monash.edu.au). Currently it consists entirely of silent film resources which are on the internet, but any resources are welcome, such as newsletters etc.

This FAQ is maintained by GLen Pringle (pringle@yoyo.its.monash.edu.au) and is posted to alt.movies.silent once every month. It is also available at the following location.

<URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/faq/sites.html>

Silent Movies

news:alt.movies.silent: Newsgroup for Silent Films
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/: Silent Movies
http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/: The Silents Majority
http://www.mindspring.com/~kallym/: Kally Mavromatis's Silent Movies site
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/resources.html: Silent film interest groups and related resources
http://www.silentera.com/: Silent Era website
http://silent-movies.com/: Your Silent Movie Web Site
http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/books.htm: The Silent Film Bookshelf
http://www.nla.gov.au/film/: Australian Silent Cinema
http://www.thesilents.com/: The Silents - Silent Feature Films 1910-36
http://alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de/~a14m/index.html: The Internet Source Book for Early German Film
http://www.infoasia.co.jp/subdir/matsudae.html: Cinema in Japan
http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology: Taylorology
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/7624/: Rotwang's Hand - The European Silent Cinema Project
http://cs-pub.bu.edu/staff/TA/dmc/www/Proj/silent.html: The Silent Film Era of India
http://www.cyberindia.net/cyberindia/movies/hism_02.htm: Silent Movies Information
http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/reiher/film_miscellany/silent.movies.html: Silent Films - Are They Worth the Watching?
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Westfilm/west.html: The Silent Westerns
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Films/Genres/Silent_Movies/: Yahoo's Index of Silent Movies Sites
http://www.costumesupercenter.com/csc_inc/html/static/btarticles/aguidetofilmsfromthesilentera.html: Costume SuperCenter's Guide to Films From the Silent Era
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/ermphome.html: Early Motion Pictures 1897-1920
http://www.hotwired.com/kino/95/43/a.html: HotWired Feature: Horror on the Silent Screen
http://weblab.research.att.com/phoaks/alt/movies/silent/resources0.html: Resources posted to alt.movies.silent
http://www.silentmovietheatre.com/: The Silent Movie Theatre, Los Angeles
http://www.uno.edu/~drif/silent/Ladies.html: Silent Ladies
http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~catseye/interact/racemovies.html: "Race Movies" in the Silent Era
http://www.dinosaur.org/lostworld.htm
http://www.users.interport.net/~dinosaur/lostworld.htm: Help Save "The Lost World" - the original 1925 movie
http://www.interport.net/~manaben/music.htm: Live Music for Silent Film
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/2073/: Hooray For Hollywoodland, including a Rudolph Valentino Homepage
http://www.silentsaregolden.com/: Silents Are Golden
http://www.geckoent.com/sfsa/: Silent Film Society of Atlanta (SFSA)
http://home.earthlink.net/~styburski/: Mary Anne's Silent Movie Site
http://home.attbi.com/~silentfilm/: The Internet Silent Film Still Archive
http://www.cyranos.ch/index-e.htm: Autographs & silent film information by Thomas Staedeli

Silent Movie People

The Marx Brothers

http://members.aol.com/sttimphus/marxbros.htm

The Marx Brothers Material & Bibliography

http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/gregoryf/marx.htm

A Marx Brothers page focussing on their early career

http://www.rpi.edu/~austib/marx/marx.html

Brad's Marx Brothers Home Page

http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Films/Actors_and_Actresses/Marx_Brothers__The/

Marx Brothers Sites

Marx Brothers mailing list

send email to majordomo@panix.com with this line in the body of the message:

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Various People

http://www.uno.edu/~drif/arbuckle: Arbucklemania: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
http://www.cyberly.com/bartine.html: Bartine Burkett Zane
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/4988/: Dolores Costello Barrymore
http://www.cybergate.com/~rgenini/ThedaBara.html: Book on Theda Bara - includes online photos
http://www.dcr.net/~ltreed/yak/yakpage.html: The Yakima Canutt page
http://www.intercall.com/~asolan01/charley.htm: The Charley Chase page
http://www.garlic.com/~nlangdon/mdavies/: The Marion Davies Home Page
http://157.242.99.50/silents/pickfair.html: Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford Home Page
http://www.tso.cin.ix.net/user/ba/bart/gance.html: Abel Gance
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pcharles/gish/gish.html: Lillian Gish
http://157.242.99.50/silents/silent/griffith.html: D.W. Griffith
http://www.mc3.edu/gen/faculty/jeckhard/lubin.htm: Siegmund Lubin
http://www.dspears.com/junesite/: The June Marlowe website
http://www.petemim.demon.co.uk/: All about the film career of cinema's first super-flapper Colleen Moore
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2440/moore.html: Denny Jackson's Colleen Moore Page
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/4988/moore.htm: Colleen Moore
http://members.aol.com/GunJones1/Mabel1.html: The Mabel Normand page
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/4988/mary.html: Mary Pickford
http://www.nevadaweb.com/nevadaca/edna.html: Edna Purviance
http://shill.simplenet.com/faywray/fwray.htm: Fay Wray
http://www.ramseyltd.com/rascals/: The Little Rascals
http://www.vintagehollywood.com/lilyan.htm: Lilyan Tashman
http://thok.let.rug.nl/~s0758515/Conrad_Veidt/veidt.html: Conrad Veidt Corner
http://picpal.com/amwhome.html: Anna May Wong
http://ng.netgate.net/~jlatham/silence.html: Four silent actresses
http://shill.simplenet.com/actress/actress.htm: shillPages - images of various actresses
http://www.intothelonging.com/: Gareth Hughes, the first Welsh Film star
http://home.earthlink.net/~jakre/murnau/: Web of Murnau - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Sites With Silent Movie Videos, posters, books etc for sale

http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/: Silent Film Sources - Availability of Silent Films in USA
http://www.picpal.com/picpal/: Picture Palace
http://sepnet.com/rcramer/silent.htm: Cult Films: Silent Classics
http://members.aol.com/fesfilms/: Silent Movies on Video
http://www.kino.com/: Kino On-Line
http://www.gravevinevideo.com/: Grapevine Video
http://www.moviesunlimited.com/silent.htm: Movies Unlimited silent film videos
http://www.spvi.com/~lsvideo/: LSVideo, with some silent films on video
http://www.moviecard.com/: Moviecard Website - movie star cigarette cards and trading cards
http://www.emovieposter.com/: Vintage Movie Poster Dealer - twice weekly auctions and fixed price sales
http://www.io.com/~jsdietz/poster.html: J S Dietz Movie Posters
http://www.musicman.com/mp/mp.html: The Movie Poster List
http://www.matineetoday.com/: Matinee Today - The Art of Film Posters
http://www.filmfan.com/: Film Fan - movies posters from silent cinema to current films
http://www.batsford.com/Film/index.html: Film books, including some on silent films

Viewing Silent Films (festivals, silent film theatres, tv schedules etc)

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/screenings.html: Silent Film Screenings
http://www.cinemaweb.com/lcc/: Live Cinema Calendar - silent motion picture screenings
http://tcm.turner.com/: Turner Classic Movies
http://www.cameranet.com/silent.htm: Towne Theatre Silent Film Schedule
http://www.filmfestival.be/: The Flanders Film festival with silent films
http://www.wvi.com/~stage/silent.htm: Stage Silent Movie Series
http://www.knittingfactory.com/LMSF/LMSF.html: Loud Music Silent Film

Movie Sites which include some information related to Silent Films

http://www.tuad.ac.jp/net-expo/ff/ff95/daily95/en/daily6-3.html: Giving Life To Silent Film: Preservation and Music in Silent Films
http://slaughter.net/horror/: A Bibliography of Horror, Terror and Macabre Cinema
http://jsmagic.net/sirens: Sirens of the Silver Screen - black and white photography gallery
http://www.skinema.com/: Dermatology in the cinema
http://ccr.dsi.uanl.mx/~olondono/camera.html: Silent Cinema Projector
http://www.theaterorgan.com/: Theater Pipe Organ music
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa: Theatre Historical Society of America
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/cinemat.html: Collecting vintage movie equipment (cinematographica)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/5555/: Classic Movie Reviews - includes some silent films
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5144/movies.htm: Movies in Birmingham, Michigan
http://www.odata.se/klotter/staffan.cederfeldt/default.htm: Movie Posters, including some silent ones
http://users.anet-stl.com/~sdtimes/film/: The Cinema Pages
http://www.jps.net/mcat/film: World Cinema - Absolute Authority on Film
http://philfilm.simplenet.com: Phil's Vintage Film and Collectibles
http://www.franklyncards.com/movies/: Franklyn Cards film star site
http://www.teachersalaryinfo.com/resources/film-stars-and-their-salaries.html: Film stars and their salaries - includes some silent film stars

Preservation of Films

http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/: National Film Preservation Board
http://www.filmpreservation.org/: National Film Preservation Foundation
http://www.afionline.org/preservation/preservation.home.html: Film Preservation
http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/: Society for the Preservation of Film Music
http://www.teleport.com/~tco/: Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.

General Movie Sites

http://us.imdb.com/: The Internet Movie Database
http://www.reel.com/: Reel - large movie store and database of films
http://ALLMOVIE.com/: The All-Movie Guide
http://www.amctv.com/: American Movie Classics
http://www.sna.net.au/: Screen Network Australia
http://www.interlog.com/~tfs/: Toronto Film Society
http://www.film.com/: Film related site
http://www.showbizdata.com/: Showbiz Search Engine
http://www.electronfilm.com/: Electronfilm.com - a directory of film related sites
http://www.Dearfilm.com/: DEARFILM - Independent films
http://www.filmaust.com.au/: Film Australia
news:rec.arts.movies.announce: Newsgroup for newsworthy events in the movie business. (Moderated)
news:rec.arts.movies.misc: Newsgroup for general aspects of movies not covered by other groups.
news:rec.arts.movies.people: Newsgroup about people in the movie business.

Film History

news:rec.arts.movies.past-films: Newsgroup for Past movies.
http://www.precinemahistory.net/: The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography
http://www.film100.com/: The one hundred most influential people in the history of the movies
http://www.classicmovies.org/: Classic Movies
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/: The Palace Theater
http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/cinecent/html1.htm: Australian Centenary of Cinema
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1096/past.htm: Hollywood Snapshots and Photos - photos from the past
http://www.biographcompany.com/: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company - the oldest movie company in USA
http://www.dsi.cnrs.fr/AFRHC/AFRHCE.html: Association Francaise de Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinema
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ryahnke/film/cinema1.htm: Cinema History (includes Films from the Silent Era)
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~s-herbert/ProjectionBox.htm: The Projection Box
http://www.filmsite.org/: The Greatest Films - cinema history
http://grafics.histart.umontreal.ca/default-eng.html: Research Group on the Beginnings and the Formation of the Cinema and Theatrical Institutions
http://www.classicimages.com/: Classic Images Magazine
http://www.screensound.gov.au/: The National Screen and Sound Archive, Australia

Silent Film Resources FAQ

Silent Movies

Silent Movie People

Louise Brooks

Charles Chaplin

Buster Keaton

Laurel and Hardy

Harold Lloyd