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

Louise Brooks

http://www.pandorasbox.com/
Louise Brooks Society
http://www.oz.net/~stranger/
Louise Brooks
http://www.cps.net.au/
Louise Brooks Stuff
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/k/akasha/www/brooksie/louise.html
Louise Brooks photos
http://www.oz.net/~stranger/brooks.htm
The Louise Brooks Gallery
http://www.psykickgirl.com/lulu/
Das Madchen Lulu
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Films/Actors_and_Actresses/Brooks__Louise/
List Of Louise Brooks sites

Charles Chaplin

news:alt.movies.chaplin
alt.movies.chaplin Newsgroup
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/chaplin/chaplin.html
Chaplin Biography and Filmography
http://www.chaplinsociety.com/
The Chaplin Society
http://ac.acusd.edu/History/classes/media/chaplin.html
Charlie Chaplin Resources Notes
http://www.mistral.co.uk/hammerwood/chaplin.htm
The Eternal Chaplin and the Speech of the Great Dictator
http://members.aol.com/summit1085/gerald.htm
Chaplin Film Locations THEN & NOW
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/soc/chaphome.html
Chaplin Biographer seeking Chaplin information
http://phoenix.kent.edu/~msuh/chaplin.html
Chaplin movie clip
http://wso.williams.edu/~ktaylor/gerstein/chaplin/intro.html
David Gerstein's Charlie Chaplin Home Page
http://www.turner.com/tcm/pressroom/chaplin.htm
Charles Chaplin Biography
http://www.erols.com/gbond/chaplin.htm
Entertainment and Chaplin
http://pages.hotbot.com/movies/skad13/chaplin.html
Jax Beach Movie Revue: Tribute to Charlie Chaplin
http://www.jyu.fi/~jopa/chaplin/
The UNOFFICIAL Charlie Chaplin WWW Page
http://info.exeter.ac.uk/bill.douglas/charlot.html
Charlot: the cult of Charlie Chaplin
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Films/Actors_and_Actresses/Chaplin__Charlie/
List of Chaplin sites
http://weblab.research.att.com/phoaks/alt/movies/chaplin/resources0.html
Resources posted to alt.movies.chaplin

Buster Keaton

http://www.ids.net/picpal/damfino.html
The Damfinos: Buster Keaton's Fan Club
http://www.netbistro.com/buster/buster.html
Project Buster
http://www.ampas.org/ampas/academy/keaton/keaton.html
Keaton Images
http://www.hotwired.com/kino/95/34/feature/index.html
HotWired Feature: Buster Keaton: The Man Who Fell to Earth
http://www.turner.com/tcm/pressroom/keaton.htm
Buster Keaton Biography
http://www.thing.de/projekte/future/buster.htm
Buster Keaton and the Virgin Sperm Dancer
http://www.ida.liu.se/~juhta/buster/
Juha's Buster Keaton Page
http://www.uno.edu/~drif/Keaton/
Buster Keaton site, includes quicktime clips
http://www.usc.edu/dept/etc/boxoffice/131_4/buster.apr.html
"Buster" Forever
http://www.geocities.com/~oldbrit/busterindex.htm
Generally Buster

Laurel and Hardy

news:alt.comedy.laurel-hardy
alt.comedy.laurel-hardy newsgroup
http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/
The Official Laurel and Hardy Web Site
http://www.laurelandhardy.org/
Another Laurel and Hardy Site
http://www.ramseyltd.com/theboys/
Laurel & Hardy
http://www.your.com/lh/
Meet Stan and Babe
http://www.exit109.com/~smazoki/
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
http://www.intercall.com/~mayz/lh.htm
Laurel and Hardy - Wonders of Comedy
http://www.intercall.com/~asolan01/yair.htm
The Wacky World of Laurel and Hardy
http://www.portal.ca/~kkeeper/
Oliver The Eighth Tent # 100
http://www.xs4all.nl/~janvt/
Blotto - Laurel & Hardy Magazine
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2147/
The Laughing Gravy Home Page
http://www.concentric.net/~jmkisner/stan-ol.htm
Jim's Laurel and Hardy Site
http://www.wwwebguides.com/britain/cumbria/furness/laure.html
Laurel and Hardy Museum
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Films/Actors_and_Actresses/Laurel___Hardy/
List of Laurel and Hardy sites
http://www.laurelnhardy.com/
Laurel & Hardy Merchandise
http://members.aol.com/lhcentral/
Laurel and Hardy Central

Harold Lloyd

http://www.asb.com/usr/helloharold/
Hello, Harold Lloyd
http://www.turner.com/tcm/pressroom/lloyd.htm
Harold Lloyd Biography
http://www.uno.edu/~drif/Lloyd/
Harold Lloyd Quicktime Clips

The Marx Brothers

http://users.aol.com/hackinbush/private/marx.html
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:
       subscribe marx-brothers your@email.address

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

Glen Pringle / pringle@yoyo.its.monash.edu.au
Copyright © 1996-2012 by Glen Pringle