It’s #SilentSunday , but I haven’t been following programming schedules since cutting cable. I’d like to recommend a #documentary of silent cartoons and its insights from today’s archivists and scholars with a who’s who like #CartoonsOnFilm , #KevinBrownlow , and #JerryBeck !

CARTOON CARNIVAL, directed by Andrew T. Smith, aired Oct 2021 on TCM.
Blu-ray discs can be purchased on Century 21 Films’ website.

#cinemastodon #cinema

https://www.century21films.co.uk/cartoon-carnival

Cartoon Carnival — Century 21 Films

Century 21 Films
Review: The silent film era roars again in 'Babylon'

“Perhaps the ballyhoo meant nothing,” Kevin Brownlow wrote in his defining history of the silent film era, “The Parade’s Gone By…”

Associated Press

#7BooksToKnowMe #7Books #bookstodon

1. Young Adult Novel - #DanielPinkwater
2. Harriet the Spy - #LouiseFitzhugh
3. #HollywoodBabylon - Kenneth Anger
4, PopCo - #ScarlettThomas
5. #WordFreak - Stefan Fatsis
6. The Parade's Gone By - #KevinBrownlow
7. Through the Looking Glass - #LewisCarroll

#7books that made a difference to me in no particular order. Judge me, because who doesn’t?
“The Parade's Gone By . . . “ by #KevinBrownlow
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by #DanaStevens
Tales of the City by #ArmisteadMaupin
The Cider House Rules by #JohnIrving
Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited... by #MollyHaskell
The Fire Next Time by #JamesBaldwin
Shatterday by #HarlanEllison