Charlie Chaplin and the Sound of Silence

November 18, 2011.Reading time 23 minutes.

I thought it would be fun to explore Chaplin’s fascinating love/hate relationship with a little thing called … sound. Chaplin may have been the one filmmaker to hold out the longest against sound, but he also happened to be one of the earliest filmmakers to embrace it. A fitting contradiction given Chaplin was […]

The Great Big Beautiful Project Keaton Blogroll

November 3, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

Wow! What a month it’s been. I hardly know where to start . Project Keaton has been a daily thrill over on the Project Keaton Tumblr page as well as here on The Pictorial, and with the project officially ending yesterday, I am delighted to post the our Great Big Beautiful Project Keaton Blogroll. The […]

Project Keaton: Buskerfly Productions Tip Their Hat to Buster

October 21, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

Buskerfly Productions is truly delightful. This Boulder-based production company embraces the elements of classic film-making while utilizing the latest in modern technology, producing work that is of pristine, high-def quality while maintaining its integrity to the original medium that is their inspiration: silent comedy. Buskerfly reached out to Project Keaton and was so kind as […]

Project Keaton: John Bengtson's Buster Keaton and Film Noir

October 2, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Silent film historian John Bentson is pretty much THE authority on filming locations of the silent masters. His holy trinity of silent comedy filming locations Silent Traces, Silent Echoes and Silent Visions are dazzling, in-depth histories of the films of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, respectively. His blog, Silent Locations, digs even deeper into the past, […]

Project Keaton: John Bengtson’s Buster Keaton and Film Noir

October 2, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Project Keaton

September 30, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

For the month of October, the Pictorial will be heavily focusing on the life, work and art of the legendary Buster Keaton. It felt right we should do so, given Buster’s 116th birthday on October 4th, the month-long salute to Keaton’s films on Turner Classic Movies, and some exciting new releases from Kino video. Project […]

Charlie Chaplin's Studio: Then And Now

August 19, 2011.Reading time 3 minutes.

Every morning I pass Charlie Chaplin’s studio. And I hate myself for letting it have become routine. When I first moved to Hollywood five years ago, it was reverent Holy Ground. And, oh, it still is! When I remember it’s there, that is. Rushing to work with a head full of figures and deadlines succeeded […]

Charlie Chaplin’s Studio: Then And Now

August 19, 2011.Reading time 3 minutes.

We've Been Liebstered! (I didn't know what it meant either…)

August 17, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Kitty Packard Pictorial has been Liebstered! C’est a dire, we’ve been presented with the “Liebster Blog” award from one of our favorite fellow film fanatics, The Lady Eve Sidwich, the cinemaven behind The Lady Eve’s Reel Life. Take a sampling of her recent posts and you’ll see exactly why this blog stands so well […]

We’ve Been Liebstered! (I didn’t know what it meant either…)

August 17, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.