The second annual Newhallywood Silent Film Festival is set for Friday-Sunday, February 12-14, and will be presented virtually this year.
Film’s “Silent Era” lasted roughly from 1895 to 1930. During this time thousands of dialogue-free films were shot in Southern California, many in the area around Newhall in the Santa Clarita Valley.
The 2021 Newhallywood Silent Film Festival is focused on the numerous scandals and tragedies that occurred during the silent era.
The festival will include a session on the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle scandal that ruined the career of the second most popular comedy star at the time, and the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, which basically ended the career of female star Mabel Normand.
Mary Anne and I years ago were eating breakfast at Karla’s on Mechanic Street in New Hope when someone mentioned “Pauline’s Trestle,” the most famous image of the silent film era. Afterwards, we took a closer look at the curving railroad trestle over Aquetong Creek about a block away, just upstream from the Bucks County Playhouse.
In 1914, as the story goes, young actress Pearl White was tied to the trestle’s tracks as a locomotive came careening down the line, threatening to run her over. It was the most memorable scene in the blockbuster movie serial, “The Perils of Pauline.”
Show People (1928) to Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) films about Hollywood, and by extension Los Angeles, have been there from the start of movies and continued in various guises throughout its multifarious history, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Throughout the sixties and early seventies several films were produced that spoke of the end of Hollywood as a creative enterprise, that is, as a field in which artists could examine their emotions and ideas and their response to the contemporary world – a civilization in crisis that they sought to describe or explore in depth from within. From Pier Paolo Pasolini’s
Dear Evan Hansen. Feldman not only made his Broadway debut at 16 years old, but this was his first professional acting gig and it marked the first teen to play the title role. “I’m really excited to bring authenticity to Evan,” he noted about his youth in an interview from 2019. “There are going to be differences in every Evan because we’re all just different people, as it is a reflection of who we are inside.” Jordan Fisher slipped into the arm cast and blue striped T-shirt for what was supposed to be a 16-week engagement starting January 28.
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It sounds like the beginning of a vaguely inappropriate joke: what do the silent film actress, the suffragette and the most famous deaf-blind woman in history have in common?
But it s no joke. And in this case, fact is probably stranger than fiction because these three women - Charlie Chaplin s mentor, a brick-throwing activist and a revolutionary - were all disabled feminist pioneers of the early twentieth century.
Now, the inner lives of Mabel Normand, Rosa May Billinghurst and Helen Keller have been laid bare with a new unsanitised and fictionalised retelling of true events for a podcast.