Tag: Silent film
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Audio from silent footage?
I remember Daedulus aka David E. H. Jones, a Mensan (I read his ‘The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes’ as a kid, my mother was a Mensan so she bought it for me) talking about the idea of picking up vibrations from the Ancient Greek plasterers to hear what songs they sung…
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Stan and Ollie in ‘Pretty Vacant’
Oh I LOVE this. A childhood growing up watching Laurel & Hardy and Harold Lloyd, I think people forget how transgressive and anarchic those films were. Sex Pistols are the icing on the cake in this video from qualityJackson. Here’s the Liveleak version for the inevitable time this gets taken down or limited on YouTube…