Introductory Notes to
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This page is an introduction to a very exciting addition to the site. I was lucky enough to spot a post by Jason Liller on the alt.movies.silent group, a Google Group comprised of extremely knowledgeable film buffs, historians, general experts, etc. which I subscribe to and read every morning, concerning silent film reviews in early issues of The New Yorker.
In his post Jason graciously offered to e-mail the index he compiled from the vintage issues to anyone who wished to have it, and going a step further offered it for publication on a site if anyone was interested. I was definitely interested. Jason Liller provided this list to me for publication on things-and-other-stuff.com absolutely free of charge, and I cannot thank him enough for that.
Following are Jason's own notes to The Complete New Yorker Film Review Index:
"The Complete New Yorker" film review index
covers all film reviews from issue #1 (21 Feb 1925) through the last issue of 1929 (28 Dec). I have made no attempt to distinguish between silents and talkies. Also, because I stopped indexing at the end of 1929, the list does not include anomalous silents, such as MODERN TIMES, which was released in 1936.
- All film titles are indexed by issue date and page number.
- Film titles do not include leading articles. THE WIND, therefore, becomes simply WIND.
- Dates are in YYYYMMDD format. Therefore, 4 August 1928 becomes 19280804.
- Some issues do not contain film reviews.
- Some films are reviewed more than once.
- Some films are reviewed in revival (i.e., THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI in the 6 Nov 1926 issue).
- I did not have access to the 30 Jan 1926 issue. Therefore, no reviews from this issue are included in the index. If anyone has access to this issue, please send the film review info to things-and-other-stuff.com and Cliff will pass the information along to me for an update -- thanks!
- Whether or not all of the referenced pieces actually constitute reviews is a distinction left to the reader.
Please notify me of all errors, omissions and lapses of judgment. Please feel free to direct all questions, suggestions for improvement, etc., to me through the things-and-other-stuff.com web site.
Thank you, and enjoy!
--Jason Liller
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