What's everyone's favourite silent film from each genre? For me, it's:

Comedy: The Cameraman.
Drama: Way Down East.
Western: Hell's Hinges.
Horror: Nosferatu (Haxan a close second!).
Fantasy: Die Nibelungen.
Adventure: The Spiders movies.
Romance: Girl Shy (cheating a bit, as this more of a romantic comedy!).
Historical: The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Sci-Fi: Metropolis.
Crime: Honestly, I don't think I've seen enough to make a choice!

Looking forward to seeing other people's lists, and hopefully picking up some ideas for what to watch.

I lately played around with the Idea of making sound design for Metropolis. What are you're takes on sound design for silent movies. Is it destroying the original is it creating new Art or is it just not worth it?

The B&N sale is going on, but the new silent film I’d be grabbing in theory — Pandora’s Box — I already have the limited Eureka edition (I’m still considering the Criterion for its added score options, but that’s a separate question).

The theme I set myself instead is: films made during the sound era and marketed toward kids that are really grown-up silent cinema at heart.

So, what other films might fit that genre?

I've just finished watching The Circus and wondered if The Tramp is called Charlie in the film? I'm sure Merna calls him it a couple of times near the end. Once after the marriage (it looks like she says 'Oh Charlie') and another time when the circus is leaving town.

Such a great film.

. . . the spine-shift on Vol. 5 is giving me OCD where none had existed previously (not even over the font-shift after Vol. 1). Le sigh.

Can anyone recommend an online archive or resource for shorts from the silent era? I am especially interested in first-wave experimental shorts, as represented by Bruce Posner's Unseen Cinema collection.

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