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Essays, interviews, lectures and archives on the films of the silent and early sound eras. Read about a film, then watch it.

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Review from Pre-Code.com (opens in a new tab)
On Half Shot at Sunrise
Website
Movies Silently Review (opens in a new tab)
On Ashes of Vengeance
Essay
Movies Silently (opens in a new tab)
On Mickey
Essay
Cinema as Portraiture: Dovzhenko’s Earth – Establishing Shot (IU) (opens in a new tab)
On Earth
Website
Ideology and Reality: Society and Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Mother (1926) - Senses of Cinema (opens in a new tab)
On Mother
Essay
La fée aux choux | film by Guy-Blachê — Britannica (opens in a new tab)
On The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Essay
Hell's Angels — Criterion Collection (opens in a new tab)
On Hell's Angels
Essay
A History of Screenwriting – The Cabbage Fairy (La Fée aux Choux) — On Screenwriting and Media with Dr. Rosanne Welch (opens in a new tab)
On The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Essay
Westfront 1918 — Criterion Collection (opens in a new tab)
On Westfront 1918
Essay
MoMA | Howard Hawks's The Dawn Patrol — Museum of Modern Art (opens in a new tab)
On The Dawn Patrol
Essay
Westfront 1918: War Is Hell — Criterion Collection Current (opens in a new tab)
On Westfront 1918
Essay
MoMA | G. W. Pabst's Westfront 1918 — Museum of Modern Art (opens in a new tab)
On Westfront 1918
Essay
City Lights (1931) | The Definitives — Deep Focus Review (opens in a new tab)
On City Lights
Essay
Ozu's Space Adventures: Editing in PASSING FANCY — The Criterion Channel (opens in a new tab)
On Passing Fancy
Essay
Out of the Vaults: Abraham Lincoln, 1930 — Film Foundation (opens in a new tab)
On Abraham Lincoln
Essay
Caught in a Cabaret (27 April 1914) | Chaplin: Film by Film — Chaplin: Film by Film (opens in a new tab)
On Caught in a Cabaret
Essay
Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture — Berghahn Books (opens in a new tab)
On The Blue Angel
Essay
I Cover the Waterfront (1933) with Claudette Colbert and Ben Lyon — Pre-Code.Com (opens in a new tab)
On I Cover the Waterfront
Essay
The Disappearance of the Working Class from the Cinematic Screen — Widok. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture (opens in a new tab)
On Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
Essay
Fun Facts And Murky Legends About 'The Arrival Of The Train At La Ciotat Station' (1896) — Silent-ology (opens in a new tab)
On The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
Essay
The Blue Angel (1930) | The Definitives — Deep Focus Review (opens in a new tab)
On The Blue Angel
Essay
The Aquatic Allure of The Kingdom of Fairies — Medium (opens in a new tab)
On The Kingdom of the Fairies
Essay
People on Sunday — Criterion Collection (opens in a new tab)
On People on Sunday
Essay
Now and Forever 1934 review-how to weaponize cuteness — Corner Store Cinema (opens in a new tab)
On Now and Forever

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