San Francisco Silent Film Festival

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.

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Screening Room

Watch films restored by SFSFF Preservation, recordings made at SFSFF live events, and more!

Online Presentations

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Masterclass: Scoring Casanova
Masterclass: Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius
Amazing Tales Online: Reanimating History - Preserving the LoC's Paper Print Collection
Amazing Tales Online: When Silents Got No Respect

SFSFF Restorations

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The Last Edition
Jane's Declaration of Independence
What's the World Coming To?
Silence

Intros, Talks, Demonstrations

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Flipbook/Film Comparison
Amazing Tales from the Archives: Restoring The Half-Breed
When the Earth Trembled — Reconstruction Demo
Fragment of an Empire — Side by Side Comparison

Clips and Trailers

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SFSFF Trailer
Behind the Door — Outtakes
Soft Shoes — Clip
Der Hund von Baskerville — Trailer

Flipbooks

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Train en Marche
La Danse
La Danse du Cancan
Lutte de Cuisiners