Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

The Modern Silent

sites.barbican.org.uk


Silent London’s Pamela Hutchinson looks back at the origins of silent cinema and contemplates the striking similarities to what we’re watching now on our phones and on the big screen…

 

Explore...

Carol review: 'Cate Blanchett will slay you'

Under the Skin - BFI review

House of Flying Daggers - the value of women

Goodfellas, The Film Programme - BBC Radio 4

Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism

What is Auteur Theory? | Deep Focus

Cinema and modernism

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Props, Things and Do the Right Thing

Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin

New...

Cover Supervisor

National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Cover Supervisor - PE Specialism

Summer 2024 Exam Arrangements

Year 5 Open afternoons

History and Old Hartisians

Artificial intelligence and assessments

My Examinations

Discover...

Examinations ZEN GCE Film Studies Silent Film Teaching Under The Skin SOTD No Film School Carol Cinematography Auteur Revision Aesthetics Theory Vacancies Physical Education Old Hartisians A Level YouTube The Guardian

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...