In praise of silent films! This issue of the MovieJawn zine focuses on the pre-talkie era of filmmaking in all its cool and weird glory.

Within: The tradition of live soundtrack accompaniment that makes "silent" films so malleable. Joan Crawford's silent beginnings. Propaganda films. The voice of Frankenstein. Silent films that challenged cultural ideas about disability and mental illness. David Lynch's early short (mostly silent) film The Grandmother. Storing and preserving old films in nitrate vaults. Much more.

40 pages, cut magazine size, full color. Cover artwork by Hugo Marmugi, featuring pioneering women filmmakers of the silent era: Drusilla Dunjee Houston, Alice Guy-Blache, and Lois Weber.