Hello everybody. It is once again that wonderful holiday, National Silent Movie Day.
Let us start this holiday themed post with the most famous name in silent movies, Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie Chaplin is considered to be one of the big four of the silent film comedians. The other three are considered Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Harry Langdon.
Of course there are other great silent movie comedians including Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Laurel and Hardy and of course the Keystone Cops.
Of course there were some great dramatic filmmakers during the silent era such as D.W. Griffith, Lois Webber and F.W. Murnau.
I am a big fan of J.B. Kaufman and Russell Merritt's book, Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney.
Now for some of Walt Disney's silent films themselves.
Of course I am an avid watcher of TCM's Silent Sunday Night.
My favorite place to watch silent movies is Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, California, where all silent films are accompanied by the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe organ.
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