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Interesting that Muller had no background as an animator - which raises the question about the division of labor on the Bowers films. Could one assume that Muller was responsible simply for the live-action components of the films, while Bowers handled the stop-motion sequences? (Perhaps not; after a...

That's an interesting movie, Sara. Sibley Watson was a poet and avant-garde filmmaker. I’ve seen his Fall of the House of Usher (1928) (not to be confused with the more famous Jean Epstein version from the same year); but this film was new to me. Interestingly, Watson’s version of the Poe story comp...

The sinking of the Lusitania not a fit topic for comedy? Well, maybe not explicitly. But it’s certainly in the background of the Syd Chaplin film A Submarine Pirate (December 1915). … First off, there’s the historical proximity of the film to the Lusitania disaster (seven months earlier, in May of t...