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Silent Film Director Shows You 'How to Be a Motion Picture Director'

02.20.12 @ 6:28PM Tags : filmmaking, interview, MarshallNeilan, showbusiness, silentfilm

With The Artist up for an Oscar this weekend, I found this little item to be apropos.  If we were to travel 100 years back we’d be avidly reading articles like the following interview with silent film director Marshall Neilan – “How To be a Motion Picture Director.”  There’s a lot we can learn from watching silent films in terms of pure visual story telling, but it’s not often you hear advice about the business side.  Mr. Neilan delivers in a big way, showing that as much as things change, some things stay the same: More »