THE YEAR BEGAN WITH A SHORT STORY [460:22]

When there’s no one at home… You lock the door. Just darkness and a crack on the ceiling. Silence. Like those nightmares, when there’s no one at home, you often hear them say. They greet you and call on you, the gentle voice of someone who’s weak and not well. Here and there is the […]

SILENT FILMS ABOUT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Tomorrow is the big day – July 4th! Balladeer’s Blog is squeezing in another seasonal post before then. THE SPY (1914) – This four-reel movie was based on the 1821 novel of the same name by THE James Fenimore Cooper. The story is set largely at a home in Scarsdale, New York as American Rebel […]