The 1927 Blog-a-Thon

Thanks to everyone for helping bring this off—it turned out even better than I had hoped! There's one post still to come, so if you have anything you wanted to include but didn't get done in time, feel free to send me your last-minute links.

My own contributions are Now Showing in Chicago, detailing all 56 films playing at all 102 theaters in Chicago this weekend in 1927, and an article on Clara Bow and It.

The Entries (in order of appearance):

• Squish on the high price of transition to the talkies (and other goodies)
• Edward Copeland on Buster Keaton's The General
• My favorite art historian on Josephine Baker in Siren of the Tropics
• Operator_99, on a series of German Metropolis postcards
• Damian on 1927 as presented in Singin' in the Rain
• Pinky gives us an MP3 of "The Varsity Drag" (and promises more later this weekend)
• Film of the Year on the Technicolor short film The Flag
• Rocks That Move on film people conceived in 1927
• Nick on Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
• Movie Time Capsule on films set in 1927
• Pinky's back with some love for Antonio Moreno in It
• Stevis on baseball in newsreels
• Samurai Frog gives us his top ten films of 1927
• Stevis is back with an "amateur's" take on The General
• Oggs on Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Cinemathematics on the Harold Lloyd film The Kid Brother
• Brian Darr on the two proto-"best picture" awards at the first Oscars
• Oggs is back with Peter Jackson's reimagining of film history in Forgotten Silver
• Stinkylulu on Pearl McCormack in The Scar of Shame
• Samurai Frog checks in again with Disney's Oswald the Rabbit
• New! Self-Styled Siren on Flesh and the Devil