For this week’s Silent Sundays post, I have continued working on an investigation that began on Twitter a decade ago.

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Days before the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, the Miles Brothers captured a thriving Market Street. On April 18, 1906, everything changed. The brothers returned—and filmed what remained.
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Highly recommended!

What an honor to have presented Anna May Wong's film The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927) with Yiman Wang @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social at Orphans 2026! Many thanks to Dan Streible @orphanfilm.bsky.social for organizing such a beautiful symposium at the OSU's Wexner Center for the Arts @osuwexmed.bsky.social

Pamela Hutchinson on The Curse of Queen Kelly Podcast Episode · Writers on Film · 15 April · 52min

I'm on the Writers on Film podcast with @www.johnbleasdale.com – talking about the sordid saga of QUEEN KELLY and why I wrote a book about it. podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/p...

Spring Silence... Kennington Bioscope 9th Annual Silent Weekend Day Two This is Part Three of the Cinema Museum Silent Spring long weekend, I’m putting my hot takes out in reverse order because… why not!? A b...

Day Two of the 9th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend.

From the Great War to high couture via cod fishing and shoe-shop slapstick, another high content day down Lambeth way.

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The Gold Rush – with a Talk by Paul Merton Join us for a special screening of a stunning 4K restoration of The Gold Rush, one of Charlie Chaplin’s most celebrated and enduring masterpieces. A landmark of silent cinema, the film blends comedy, ...

V special event. @charliechaplin.com masterpiece THE GOLD RUSH screens at @regentstcinema.bsky.social on 15 May, introduced by Paul Merton and Spencer Chaplin. www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/the-go...

QUEEN KELLY on the big screen in the UK! This is not a drill. See you in Bristol this summer.

Yep, but no spoilers 😉

Lulu in the east end!

One of the most infamous unfinished film in cinema history, the newly reconstructed 4K restoration of Erich von Stroheim's QUEEN KELLY screens 4/25 & 4/26 at brunch at Nitehawk Williamsburg

Holy crap the Queen Kelly restoration was wild af. They returned it to a silent film and used Stroheim's script to fun out the unfinished ending. Did not expect it to be so damn funny and lurid. Highly recommended to all silent film curious folks. See it with a crowd if u can.

Books Read April 2026 #3: Pamela Hutchinson: The Curse of Queen Kelly. I love books about individual films and @pamhutch.bsky.social is one of our finest writers on cinema. She tells the whole doomed story through three leading principals: Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson and Joseph P. Kennedy.

I'll be performing at the TCM Classic Film Festival again this month! My 7th time, and this year it'll be for Marion Davies in THE PATSY (1928)

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Lost film by French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès retrieved from US attic "Gugusse and the Automaton", a short silent film made by French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès back in 1897, was lost to history until it was found in a trove of film reels donated to the US Library of...

Lost Georges Méliès film from 1897, found in rural Pennsylvania

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The Denver Silent Film Fest is live!!! Join us for our Sat quadrafecta -- Anna May Wong in PAVEMENT BUTTERFLY, armless knife throwing à la THE UNKNOWN, Lois Weber's SHOES presented by @shelleystamp.bsky.social, & Asta/Greta in Pabst's JOYLESS STREET!! 🎞️🎶 All with live music! 😍

Join me tomorrow at the Denver Silent Film Festival for Lois Weber’s heart-wrenching SHOES.

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Seeing silent films live is pure magic.

The best way to see @milestonefilms.bsky.social QUEEN KELLY is on the big screen. Even better, on the glorious screen of the Castro with Eli Denson conducting his beautiful new score on the opening night of San Francisco Silent Film Festival this May.
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Delighted to be going today to the British Silent Film Festival Symposium at the wonderful Cinema Museum to talk about... television.

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The Curse of Queen Kelly One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.In the late 1920s, at the height of silent cinema’...

And if you require a little light reading ahead of the release date, check out the full story of what happened when Gloria Swanson met Joseph P. Kennedy… and Erich von Stroheim, in THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY, out now from @stickingplacebk.bsky.social stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

QUEEN KELLY comes to Blu-ray, 16 June from @kinolorber.com and @milestonefilms.bsky.social – the new reconstructions of this wild and ambitious romance, in all its glory! kinolorber.com/product/quee...

‘An orgiastic pandemonium’: Elvira Notari, the ‘low-life cinema’ pioneer erased by fascism Italy’s first female director made 60 features depicting the gritty squalor of early 20th-century Naples. Most were lost to Mussolini’s censorship, and she died in obscurity. Now a new documentary is ...

“Elvira speaks to us like a contemporary because of her films’ carnality and sensuality. The texture of silent film makes you feel so close to that sensuality.”

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“Memory needs to be kept alive, it needs to be actualized.”

For this week’s Silent Sundays I spoke with documentarian Valerio Ciriaci about his new documentary ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENT, which is a portrait of Italy's first female director.

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We are less than 1 week away from the Denver Silent Film Festival at the beautiful Sie FilmCenter, April 10-12!!! Get your tickets, come to Denver, and join the festivities! 🎊❤️🎞️📽️🎶‼️

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For this week’s Silent Sundays post I profiled a little known silent star: Jiggs the Dog!

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Early cinema was dominated by nonfiction.

The Spring edition of WeimarCinema.org is here! The issue brings together three original essays and a new film dossier, each offering fresh perspectives on Weimar Cinema.

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HippFest at Home

Quick reminder that the Hippfest at Home will start streaming on Monday and is available for a week. It includes otherwise unavailable titles like SAXOPHONE SUSY and WHITE HEATHER

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Publication day: The Curse of Queen Kelly “Tonight I want to welcome you to a showing of a naughty little number I made with my own money – $800,000 of it.” – Gloria Swanson introducing Queen Kelly in 1967 Silent cinema icon Gl…

It is Gloria Swanson's birthday and there a few different ways that you could celebrate… silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/27/p...