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Week of July 19, 2010
Silent Films
In the News: Silent movies, such as Metropolis (1927) and Man with a Movie Camera (1929), were the main attractions this past weekend at the 15th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Here are some library resources that take a closer look at the movies that preceded the “talkies.”
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The Battleship Potemkin (DVD)
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Kino International (released 1925)
Call Number: PN1997. B75732 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Birth of a Nation (DVD)
Directed by D. W. Griffith. Kino on Video, 2002 (released 1915)
Call Number: PN1997 .B55 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Broken Blossoms, or The Yellow Man and the Girl (DVD)
Directed by D.W. Griffith. Kino on Video, 2002 (released 1919)
Call Number: PN1997 .B7565 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Charlie Chaplin’s Own Story
By Charlie Chaplin. Indiana University Press, 1985
Call Number: PN2287 .C5 A3 1985
City Lights: A Comedy Romance in Pantomime (DVD)
Directed by Charles Chaplin. Warner Home Video, 2003 (released 1931 – the “sound era”)
Call Number: PN1997 .C51532 2003 (Boca Raton Media Center)
D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Shorts (DVD)
Directed by D.W. Griffith. Kino on Video, 2002
Call Number: PN1997.75 .D924 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Fairbanks Album
Drawn from the family archives of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. New York Graphic Society, 1975
Call Number: PN2287 .F32 F3
Faust (DVD)
Directed by F.W. Murnau. Kino on Video, 2001 (released 1926)
Call Number: PN1997 .F3728 2001 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Foolish Wives (DVD)
Directed by Erich von Stroheim. Kino Video, 2003 (released 1922)
Call Number: PN1997 .F57395 2003 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Gold Rush (DVD)
Directed by Charles Chaplin. Warner Home Video, 2003 (released 1925)
Call Number: PN1997. G5685 2003 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Intolerance (DVD)
Directed by D.W. Griffith. Kino on Video, 2002 (released 1916)
Call Number: PN1997 .I51732 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Last Laugh (DVD)
Directed by F.W. Murnau. Kino International, 2001 (released 1924)
Call Number: PN1997 .L457 2001 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me
By Lillian Gish with Ann Pinchot. Prentice-Hall, 1969
Call Number: PN2287 .G55 A3
The Love of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney) (DVD)
Directed by G.W. Pabst. Kino International, 2001 (released 1927)
Call Number: PN1997 .L5244 2001 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Lulu in Hollywood
By Louise Brooks. Knopf, 1982
Call Number: PN2287 .B694 A34 1982
The Man with a Movie Camera (DVD)
Directed by Dziga Vertov. Image Entertainment, 1998 (released 1929)
Call Number: PN1997 .C4522 1988
Metropolis (DVD)
Directed by Fritz Lang. Kino International, 2002 (released 1927)
Call Number: PN1997 .M4362 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)
My Autobiography
By Charlie Chaplin. Simon and Schuster, 1964
Call Number: PN2287 .C5 A32
My Life in Pictures
By Charles Chaplin. Peerage Books, 1974
Call Number: PN2287 .C5 A35 1985
Radicalism in American Silent Films, 1909-1929: A Filmography and History
By Michael Slade Shull. McFarland, 2000
Call Number: PN199575 .S54 2000
Robin Hood (DVD)
Directed by Allan Dwan. Kino International, 2004 (released 1922)
Call Number: PN1997 .R57532 2004 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Silent Cinema: An Introduction
By Paolo Cherchi Usai. BFI Pub., 2000
Call Number: PN1995.75 .C462 2000
Silent Film Sound
By Rick Altman. Columbia University Press, 2004
Call Number: PN1995.75 .A46 2004
Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film
By Anthony Slide. Scarecrow Press, 2005
Call Number: PN1995.75 .S57 2005 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Sounds of Early Cinema
Edited by Richard Abel and Rick Altman. Indiana University Press, 2001
Call Number: PN1995.75 .S64 2001 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Sunset Boulevard (DVD)
Directed by Billy Wilder. Paramount Pictures, 2002 (released 1950 – focuses on ageing silent film star)
Call Number: PN1997 .S8442 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen: Diary of a Lost Girl (DVD)
Directed by G. W. Pabst. Kino International, 2001 (released 1929)
Call Number: PN1997 .T244 2001 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Way Down East (DVD)
Directed by D.W. Griffith. Kino International, 2008 (released 1920)
Call Number: PN1997 .W3936 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)