Category: From the Director

I’m delighted to announce that SFSMA now has recordings of more than twenty individual pieces as well as multiple cues from Read More …

The GRAMMY Foundation® Grant Program has awarded the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive a 2016 Preservation Implementation grant. The Read More …

The Society for American Music has awarded its 2016 Sight and Sound Subvention to SFSMA director Kendra Leonard for the Read More …

We’ve just posted new music by and about Charlie Chaplin! Many thanks to Terry L. Baldridge for donating scans of Read More …

SFSMA is delighted to celebrate the publication of Ben Model‘s new book, The Music of the Silent Films (New York: Read More …

SFSMA generally tries to post complete books and collections. This means that that until we have all of the pieces Read More …

SFSMA is delighted to announce a new donor to the collection! Emmy Award-winning composer Joel Everett has very generously offered Read More …

Last week, SFSMA got an email from San Diego-area theatre organist Greg Breed, who shares the Archive’s love of silent Read More …

SFSMA has just received 501(c)(3) not-for-profit status! We will now be able to begin to raise funds for an endowment, Read More …

I am delighted to announce that The Silent Film Sound and Music Archive has received a bequest from the estate Read More …