We Had Faces Then.

Or, How I Fell In Love With Silent Cinema

Norma Talmadge in Yes or No (1920)

My love for silent film grew slow, but very steady. Like a lot of people my first silent film was Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). I still remember my dad’s face sometime in the early-90s when he found the film on VHS at some video store in the San Fernando Valley where we were visiting relatives. He could hardly wait fo…