Meet David Robinson, a film critic and director of a niche film festival, the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy. You should visit the website and read the history about how this festival was formed, it is deserving to be made into a movie itself!
Mr. Robinson appeared at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2011 and I was captivated by the selections of early silent short films he brought with him. Some links to videos he brought with him are below.
Cochon Danseur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2tP9s8y2Ic
Acrobates Japonais (Les Kiri-Kis Acrobates)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6BtCxtni9Y
Those Awful Hats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Awful_Hats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORwC7gNyUaY
Chess Fever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Fever
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3727820471573567512
You can see that many of these early films had a lot of humor and art, even if it was a new medium then. I was pleased see he is returning for the 2012 fest and have put his program on my "must-see" calendar.
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