October 12, 2001
The Sounds of Silents
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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