I think I wrote last year about a poet who had contacted me regarding my blog post about a silent film called The Wishing Ring. She had never seen the movie, but she was interested in one of the screen caps I'd posted. We corresponded for a while about silent film, and I encouraged her to watch The Wishing Ring, which is an utterly delightful, ( Read more... )

1) Ten Essentials for Hiking: After my excellent (and overly anxious) recent hiking expedition on the Olympic Peninsula, I made a list (in a phone app called Evernote) of items to acquire before I try something like that again: 1) Rain gear; 2) Multi tool; 3) Flashlight; 4) Walking stick; and 5) First aid kit. So I started doing some internet ( Read more... )

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Last night I watched Georges Méliès The Palace of Arabian Knights (Le palais des mille et une nuits, 1905), which I had seen a fragment of before. That bit, which I think was included in VCI's disk of the British Ali Baba musical, Chu Chin Chow (1934), transfixed me with its clever in-camera special effects. The full movie is around twenty minutes ( Read more... )