The Sounds of Silents

By THOMAS DOHERTY

For every sleek innovation in the hardware of entertainment, a stubborn band of Luddites beats back the encroachment. Hardboiled writers hunt and peck at their Underwoods, vinyl-record fetishists spurn the CD player, and, in one of the more-curious, rear-guard actions in media history, determined film buffs are resurrecting a long-dead theatrical format for motion pictures. In the age of digital sound and picture-perfect projection, live musical accompaniment for the silent screen is

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Celluloid Scholar: a New Look at African-Americans and Film - September 8, 2000
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Keeper of the Last Picture Show - January 25, 2002
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