Jack Theakston wrote:Are you looking for information as to how intertitles were technically made or for information regarding title writers, lexicon, etc?

everything and anything, although I would prefer it to focus on american films

There is a short but interesting section on the writing of intertitles (which of course were known as SUBTITLES in the silent era) in Kevin Brownlow's still vital THE PARADE'S GONE BY. It's in a chapter that covers both titles and tinting/toning. Cheers buddy. I will track it down. The response has...

Michael O'Regan wrote:

...and men from Kerry being portrayed as idiots...

Well, that is pretty accurate!!!!!



(I'm from Cork - - - call this an in-joke!!)

Tommy Tiernan does a great sketch on Corkians

Michael O'Regan wrote:Hi Tommy,

Nice to have another Irishman aboard.

I'm from Cork though I now reside in the UK.

Been to Cork quite a few times. I normally stay in the Gresham. Where abouts in England are u now?

Hi Guys I'm Tommy Scott from Belfast, Ireland. I'm a PHD researcher at the University of Ulster Coleraine studying Representations of the Irish in American Cinema 1910-1930. I also have a MRes (Master of Research) in Arts from University of Ulster and a Ba Hons in Film and Visual Studies from Queens...

That is correct, Smiling Irish Eyes protests did not reach the heights of the protests surrounding MGM's The Callahans and the Murphys . In fact protests surrounding Smiling Irish Eyes only took place in Ireland and were staged by university students. The film contains a number of scenes that were o...

I completed my Masters on The Irish in American Cinema with a chapter that focused on this topic. Is this availabe for reading anywhere? Hi Michael I am doing my PHD thesis on the same topic (a larger study of course) so I won't be publishing my Masters findings. Saving it for the PHD. If your intr...

Hi Guys

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will be having a look at all of those. If I find anything else I will list them here so you can have a read of them if your interested.

Have a look at the protests surrounding The Callaghans and The Murphys (1927) - the Catholic Church got very upset over the depiction of Irish Catholics in this film. Irish and Catholicism were consider to be one and the same in early American films. So the Church argued that any offensive portrayal...

Hi Guys I am a new member of the forum. I am a PHD researcher studying Irish Representation in American Cinema 1910-1930. I need to find some books on Intertitles - Charles Musser, Robert Sklar etc all discuss them in small amounts. However are there any books out there that focus entirely on intert...