Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 31, 2018

Tonight, as part of television tradition, ABC will be airing The Ten Commandments in honor of Passover week. For those who are unfamiliar with the film ( were you wandering in the desert wilderness with Moses? ), this 4-hour production tells the story from the Old Testament of Moses, the...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 25, 2018

Strange lights are seen coming from an abandoned lighthouse at Pirate's Cove. When Nancy Drew and her friends investigate, they discover the lighthouse completely locked with no visible means of anyone having entered there in the past five years. But activity of a ghostly nature is soon to be stirre   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 21, 2018

Choo! Choo! The train is coming into the station. Stay on the platform until it comes to a complete stop. One little boy is anxious to board...until he learns that his mother will not be staying for the ride. Does this scene look familiar? If it does, you've just spotted...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 16, 2018

For many years, Britain exercised an entertainment tax on its citizens which was charged when anyone indulged in sitting in the dark comfort of a motion picture theater. Proceeds from this tax ( known as the Eady Levy ) went towards British-based film producers for the production of.... more films,   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 14, 2018

In this still photo from So Evil My Love ( 1948 ), Olivia ( Ann Todd ) is beginning to realize that those seemingly innocent eyes of Mark ( Ray Milland ) may be harboring evil thoughts. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 10, 2018

Every fan of the 1968 musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remembers inventor Caractacus Potts' beautiful workshop, but what many do not know is that the windmill where it was filmed was once owned by Hayley Mills, the star of numerous Walt Disney films of the 1960s. In 1967, producer Albert...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 4, 2018

Seeing a manufacturing process in action is always interesting, but this particular 1965 British Pathé film clip is extra fun to watch because it covers the process - from start to finish - of a toy Matchbox car being made....and what a detailed process it is! In 1953, to celebrate...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on February 28, 2018

Who wants to get a new housekeeper when you can have a new mother? Widower Hans Neumeister and his four children have just lost their most recent housekeeper who, like the other women before her, stormed out in aggravation over the children's playful antics. So Papa Neumeister is once again...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on February 17, 2018

A little car, a big park, and a man carrying colorful balloons ( boy, how I'd like one of those! ). You know you've seen this scene before...and do you see those two tiny figures in the backseat of the car? You know both of them, too. Now just write...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on February 14, 2018

Jeanette MacDonald knew how to flaunt spunk like no other woman in her time and, incredibly, she reigned during an era of ultra-spunky women. Jeanette knew how to be feisty and flirty without losing any of her natural refinement which made her ideal to play roles of princesses in the...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on February 13, 2018

This Valentine's Day, the Pure Entertainment Preservation Society is hosting The Singing Sweethearts Blogathon to celebrate one of the most delightful romantic couples to ever grace the silver screen - Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. I will be reviewing Naughty Marietta tomorrow but first, a loo   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on February 7, 2018

"There's no wilderness wide enough to hide a sin" When a man is separated from civilization and must contend with the forces of Mother Nature way up in the wild, wild north woods of Canada, he may discover savage instincts laying deep within him begin to emerge in his efforts...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 31, 2018

Producer Irwin Allen, best known for his "disaster films" of the 1970s ( The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure ) also made a number of entertaining sci-fi and adventure films in the early 1960s, including The Lost World and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. One of his lesser-known...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 28, 2018

The year is 1916. Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a German U-boat torpedoes a supply ship and captures its survivors. Among these survivors is Bowen Tyler ( Doug McClure ) who, with a few other surviving crew members, manages to take command of the vessel. However, he soon becomes allies...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 24, 2018

Hoorah! Someone deserves a good applause... but who? and just what did they do? If you've seen this film then you know what this mystery person accomplished. Put on your ski caps - I mean your thinking caps - and see if you can name this movie. As always, if...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 16, 2018

MGM had a knack for making great comedies and, during the 1930s especially, the studio was churning them out a dime a dozen. Paradise for Three aka Romance for Three was a particularly fun MGM comedy that featured the always delightful duo of Robert Young and Florence Rice. Its Alpine...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 14, 2018

Talk about the long arm of the law! These crime-fighters know how to handle bag-snatchers in London with their new invention. This 1-minute long 1961 British Pathé newsreel entitled Beat the Bandit showcases an amazing security case that literally sprouts arms the moment a bandit takes hold of it...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 9, 2018

Scottish novelist James M. Barrie is today best remembered for penning the children's classic "Peter Pan" ( 1905 ), but during the turn-of-the-century he was one of the most popular playwrights in England writing such plays as "The Little Minister", "Quality Street", and "The Admirable Crichton". He   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 8, 2018

George O'Brien and Virginia Vale make a handsome rootin'-tootin' couple in this still from the 1940 RKO western Bullet Code. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. Some of these may have been sold in the past, and others...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on December 28, 2017

It's time to ring in the new year - and time to party!....just like this couple is doing. Those great pink balloons would make a festive midnight "ball drop" at your own party. Just it's too bad people don't dress up in tuxedoes anymore when they do a night on...   read more