To commemorate National Silent Movie Day (yes, it’s a real thing), TCM casts its klieg lights on an era when, to quote Norma Desmond, “this business had the eyes of the whole world.”
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To celebrate silent film history and raise funds for film preservation, the National Film Preservation Foundation and Silent Movie Day are joining forces to present a special screening of Tod Browning’s macabre masterpiece, The Unknown. Featuring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford, the film will screen on Saturday, September 30th—the day after Silent Movie Day—at nine Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas throughout the USA …
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Silent Movie Day and international film distributor Park Circus team up to show silents around the world …
Read MoreKino Lorber is happy to be an active participant in the day and to make our new restorations of silent cinema classics, along with our vast silent cinema library available at a discounted price for participating theaters. Join us the week of September 29th, in celebrating these important films in theater!"
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Good news for silent comedy film fans! A long lost Harold Lloyd short has been recovered by the Harold Lloyd Estate and has been deposited at the UCLA Film & Television Archive for eventual preservation …
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Silent Movie Day is excited to share the news that Kino Lorber is generously offering numerous titles from their catalogue at a discounted rate to Silent Movie Day venues this year, including some brand new restorations …
Read MoreBrian Curran, president of Hollywood Heritage announced today that the organization will dedicate and unveil a plaque and signage at the alley at Cahuenga Boulevard and Cosmos Street in Hollywood as “Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley” to honor the legacy of three great filmmakers of the silent film era who filmed scenes at this location a century ago. The Wednesday, September 29th, 2:00 PM dedication of the alley is the premier event of the inaugural Silent Movie Day. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd are remembered as the kings of silent film comedy. They helped establish Hollywood as the movie capitol of the world by each operating studios and producing their classic films within Hollywood. These stars and Hollywood grew world-famous together. The designation of this site also pays tribute to Hollywood’s unique cultural, social, and economic heritage.
Read MoreSeptember 29th is the very first National Silent Movie Day, a great initiative launched by three dedicated film archivists and/or activists: Brandee B. Cox from the Academy Archive, Chad Hunter from Video Trust and the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society and Steven K. Hill from UCLA. “It seems like there is a national day for almost everything,” says Hunter in the official announcement, “and we thought, why not silent movies? We were actually sort of surprised there wasn’t already one.” This is exactly the kind of activist spirit we need right now in the world of cinema. The day will be celebrated with screenings and events at venues across the country (I know that Bruce Goldstein is planning something special for Film Forum here in New York) and, of course, on TCM, with a full day of great programming.
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TCM’s line-up for this daylong fest touches on a small portion of the cinematic riches that were produced before the advent of sound, but it includes some of the very best. Their line-up includes 12 silent gems in addition to 3 documentaries paying homage to these films: A Trip to the Moon (1902), Le mystère Méliès/The Méliès Mystery (2021), Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blaché (2018), Within Our Gates (1920), The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Battleship Potemkin (1925), The Wind (1928), Flesh and the Devil (1926), Sparrows (1926), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Piccadilly (1929), The Freshman (1925), City Lights (1931), Sherlock, Jr. (1924), and The Great Buster (2018).
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A group of film archivists with a passion for silent movies has established September 29 as National Silent Movie Day—an annual day to celebrate silent film history and raise awareness about the race to preserve surviving silent films. With an official proclamation from National Day Archives naming the day, the inaugural National Silent Movie Day will be held on Wednesday, September 29, 2021.
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