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Jan 17, 2010 · The theater now hosts numerous premieres, indie films, special events and private parties, making it one of the most historically significant and culturally vibrant theaters in the country.
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- The Circus. Charles Chaplin, 1928. Why choose the one film its maker didn’t even mention in his autobiography? Chaplin had enjoyed immense success with The Gold Rush in 1925, confounding expectations by sending his Little Tramp to the frozen North, and creating some of his most famous sight gags (the dance of the bread rolls).
- Big Business. James Horne, Leo McCarey, 1929. Laurel and Hardy are the odd couple of film history. Lacking the high-culture admirers of Chaplin or Keaton, their case rests on the simple test of whether you find them funny.
- 7th Heaven. Frank Borzage, 1927. Based on a schmaltzy Broadway hit, written by the step-grandson of Robert Louis Stevenson, this is high Hollywood melodrama that’s almost guaranteed to reduce any audience to joyous tears.
- Sunrise. F.W. Murnau, 1927. No sooner had the German film industry made its spectacular post-war recovery than it began to haemorrhage talent to the Hollywood studio bosses competing for big names.
The complex originally opened in 1942 as The Silent Movie Theater by silent film collector John Hampton and his wife Dorothy. Until its closure due to low attendance in 1979, Hampton had the largest private collection of silent films, which he exclusively projected in his theater.
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue ). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter- title cards .
BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS is an experiential space collaboratively curated by the Brain Dead family to share our design, creation and inspiration. Located at the historic Silent Movie Theater site in Los Angeles, the Studios feature a green room, cafe, and movie theater.
“Silent Film” is a term used to describe movies that have no recorded sound. Films were silent when they first came about in the early 1890s. Recorded sound existed at this point, but the technology could not serve a whole theatre. The Technology for recorded sound took 40 years to perfect.
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Silent cinema is a foundational stage in the development of the film industry, characterized by the absence of synchronized sound and spoken dialogue, and represents an iconic and fascinating era of cinema history.
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