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...

Under the Skin - featurette

Realism

Is Vertigo the best or worst movie ever?

House of Flying Daggers - mise-en-scene

Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece

Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence

Superimposition in film

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

Under the Skin explained

Fallen Angels - Explained

New...

Hartismere Family :: Policy Documents

Teacher of Art & Photography (Part time)

Summer 2026 Examinations

CABARET THE MUSICAL. London. Y9-13. Weds 15th April 2026- Only a few places left

Results

Teacher of Business Studies & Economics

Hartismere Staff Sketchbook Club Exhibition

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Discover...

Examinations ZEN GCE Film Studies Silent Film Student Information Year 9 Theory The New York Times Screenplay Editing Art Exhibition Auteur Documentary House Of Flying Daggers Aesthetics Short Film Economics Carol Mocks Art At Hartismere

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...