Silent Film Bookshelf

The Silent Film Bookshelf is a welcome addition to the growing material on silent film available through the internet. Reprinting articles from trade journals, memoirs and contemporary film criticism, the editor has come up with an exciting website where topics range from exhibition and production in the silent era, to the memoirs of important pioneers such as Gene Gauntier. Also featured are articles on the production conditions of key films such as The Covered Wagon and Nanook of the North.

This website is invaluable to researchers and students of silent film: prior to this, alot of this information/material could only be accessed in archives, the Silent Film Bookshelf makes this fascinating material available to everyone. As a result it makes a crucial contribution to silent film appreciation and research. I have used this website in my own research and intend to use it as a teaching tool for my university seminar course on Silent Cinema.

Dr Gwenda Young
National University of Ireland, Cork
 

As a teacher, I try to give my students experience in using the internet as a research tool in their course work. I also like to give them original source materials to read and analyze. Your selection of contemporary articles from the world of the silent film has become a valuable resource both for my students and for myself. I have included a link to your page among the interent links I have online for my students. The selections you have made available are very well chosen and illustrate both the familiar and the nearly forgotten aspects of the early film industry. Many thanks for your efforts. We all look forward to seeing what's next.

Joseph P. Eckhardt
Professor of History
Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA

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