Early Cinema Gateway
Genres
- Edison's Frankenstein
Site offering DVD copies of the 1910 Edison version of Frankenstein, after years of the film being withheld from the public. - The Fantômas Website
Basic information on the novels and films about the French popular fiction hero Fantômas, including film stills and synopses. - Matsuda: Japanese Index of Movies
Text-based site on Japanese silent cinema, including a timeline, Who's Who and articles on such distinctive features of the Japanese silents as the benshi interpreter performers. - Moving Pictures That Talk
Essay (without illustrations) on the various efforts to synchronise sound discs with motion pictures in the early cinema period, including such systems as the Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre, Chronophone, Cinephone and Vivaphone. - Silent Westerns
Well-illustrated essay on the silent Western, with good historical background for cinema at this time generally.