Back to the Beginning: Chicago Silent Film Festival

Want to go back to the movies' beginning? When the film stars were Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Clara Bow, Harold Lloyd, Marion Davies, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks? Did you like the Academy Award winning movie The Artist?


The Silent Film Society of Chicago is holding their 2013 Silent Summer Film Festival at the historic Des Plaines Theatre. The festival starts July 19th and continues on Friday nights through July and August. Each film has a live theater organ accompaniment so you can step back in time and view the films as they were originally shown. Ticket information and the film selection is listed here.


For more about silent movies and their stars try these titles:

Silent Movies by Neil Sinyard

Speaking of the Silents: First Ladies of the Screen by Willam M. Drew

Or how about viewing some of the silent movies on DVD that the library carries?
Take a peek and see the history of the movies from a different perspective.