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unusual facts about silent movies



Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants

The book consists of thirteen pieces on various subjects, including writers H. P. Lovecraft (two essays), Robert E. Howard (also two essays), and Edgar Rice Burroughs, actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., silent movies, pseudohistory, pseudobibliographica, barbarians real and fictional, the Scopes Trial, the ancient tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse, and the author himself.

The Dodge Brothers

Since 2010 the Dodge Brothers have played the live accompaniment to classic silent movies at film festivals around the country, accompanied by silent movie pianist Neil Brand.


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Alexander Kolowrat

The high points of his artistic work were the productions of monumental silent movies like Sodom and Gomorrah (1922) or Die Sklavenkönigin (1924), both directed by Michael Curtiz, on the Laaer Berg in Vienna-Favoriten.

Arthur Berthelet

Arthur Berthelet (1879–1949) was an American movie director who went from directing stage plays (several on Broadway) to directing silent movies.

Grant Wallace

He wrote short stories and screen plays, including for two black and white silent movies: the story for A Blowout at Santa Banana (1914), and the scenario for the movie The Fuel of Life (1917).