One of the more curious early experiments with cinematic sound technology was Thomas Edison’s Kinetophone, a massively complicated mechanism involving a cylinder player and a film projector placed at the front and back of a […]
J. Stuart Blackton. J.R. Bray. Raoul Barré. The Fleischer brothers. Otto Messmer. Paul Terry. These names may not be all that recognizable today, but even the most casual observer of popular culture can see the […]
His face is unknown, his name peculiar, and his comedy style utterly foreign to modern eyes. The “he” in question? The mind-bending Musty Suffer; a silent comedian who has to be seen to be believed. […]
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