This year's National Silent Movie Day is on Monday, September 29.
Indeed, the looming end of fall and unwelcome beginning of winter means National Silent Movie Day. The following promo's misinformation - my responses include what do you mean silent movie overacting? ever seen Buster Keaton or Lloyd Hamilton? have you heard of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew? WTF? - and what sounds like a bogus AI narrator leaves a great deal to be desired, but at least this video tepidly expresses enthusiasm for silent films.
So, on this truly saturnine Saturday in godawful 2025, let's jump the gun and celebrate National Silent Movie Day with cool classic comedies!
As we're suckers for comedy films at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, only always, here's yet another favorite movie comedian, the aforementioned and original Lloyd "Ham" Hamilton!
We go for Buster Keaton as enthusiastically as sci-fi aficionados go for Star Trek and Star Wars!
Charley Chase is a perennial favorite.
The recent release of Chase's 1927 silents on Blu-ray is a comedy treasure trove.
And then there's Laurel & Hardy. . .
Our favorite of all movie comedy teams!
Stan and Babe will soon be on a much awaited Blu-ray, Laurel & Hardy, Year Three: The Newly Restored 1929 Silents.
And then there's our favorite comedienne of silents and early talkies, the winsome, witty and frequently hilarious Marion Davies. She did amazing, hilarious work in silents - how William Randolph Hearst didn't comprehend that Marion was a gifted comedienne, we'll never know.
We love When Knighthood Was In Flower, Show People and The Patsy!
Of course, we also love cartoons and there were some terrific silents, well before Disney's emergence in 1925-1927.
We especially enjoy Earl Hurd's Bobby Bumps series.
Earl Hurd's animation of Bobby Bumps was way ahead of the curve in the World War I era.
As always, we're suckers for the Fleischer Studio, Out Of The Inkwell and the subsequent Inkwell Imps!
With an enthusiastic binge-watching of Fleischer cartoons and a shout-out to Mr. Chaplin in the following clip, we say Happy National Silent Movie Day two days early!
For further celebration of National Silent Movie Day, we shall check out what Fritzi Kramer at Movies Silently will be posting; she has been doing outstanding work for many years now, as has Lea Stans at Silent-ology.
Don’t know what Imogen Sara Smith is working on these days; might be upcoming books on silents, might be a deep dive into pre-Code cinema or articles for NOIR CITY magazine. She ranks high atop the list of the best of the best film historians and remains the only author to wrote about both Charley Chase and Charley Bowers.
Another terrific author and film historian, Ben Model, has an excellent new book, The Silent Film Universe.
We at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog are enjoying this book immensely; by all means, read it to celebrate National Silent Movie Day. Excellent work, Ben!
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