Silent Footsteps – SFSFF Amazing Tales Online

I know some Silent Movie fans follow my blog…if you are interested go to John’s blog for a webinar on June 6th … Hosted by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, John will be presenting a Silent Footsteps Zoom webinar on Sunday, June 6 at 12:00 noon PST…free for those who register. Please read his blog for more details…

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Hosted by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, I will be presenting a Silent Footsteps Zoom webinar on Sunday, June 6 at 12:00 noon PST, as part of its ongoing Amazing Tales Online series. The webinar is free (register HERE), but SFSFF welcomes new members and support. The recorded presentation will be uploaded later to the festival’s online screening room.

An all-new program, my talk covers in part the hidden interplay between movies filmed in Hollywood and in San Francisco. Buster Keaton filmed scenes adjacent to several San Francisco landmarks, but in each case before they were actually built!

Working with Biograph scholar Russell Merritt, we uncovered surprising vestiges of many important locations from D. W. Griffith’s epic masterpiece Intolerance (1916), hidden for over a century, that will be revealed for the first time during my talk. Above, a teaser of what we’ve discovered.

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