Silent Cinema Art and Technology - SCAAT

Silent Cinema Art and Technology - SCAAT SCAAT strives to share and preserve the art and technology of the silent film.

05/04/2026

Catch a full hour of Joe on the Style 20 American Fotoplayer at the link in our bio! The livestream happened in collaboration with, and in support of, the Niles Film Museum - donate if you can so they can purchase their own Fotoplayer!

05/03/2026

Tune in TODAY at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET for a live performance by Joe on his American photoplayer! Link in bio 🎹🎞️

04/24/2026

Joe demonstrates the Wonder Musical Automaton from 1901, playing a melody called “The Wearing of the Green”

03/30/2026

The humble zoetrope (daedaleum?!) paved the way for modern animation - slits in the side of a spinning cylinder act as a shutter, giving the illusion of motion to the static images inside!

03/26/2026

From Joe’s “Corona Virus Quarantine Concert for the Free World” back in March 2020, please enjoy “Hour of Triumph” on the Style 20 American Fotoplayer!

03/16/2026

By sheer coincidence, we realized TODAY is the 20th anniversary of the now super-viral clip from Joe’s appearance on Huell Howser’s California Gold (original air date: May 15, 2006!) So appreciative that our 15 minutes of fame has lasted more than 15 years 🙏

03/13/2026

Silent Cinema Art and Technology works to preserve and restore all sorts of early moving picture machines - here, Joe shows us a fully functioning 1896 Mutuscope!

SCAAT works to preserve and restore all sorts of moving picture machines - here Joe shows us a fully functioning 1896 Mu...
03/13/2026

SCAAT works to preserve and restore all sorts of moving picture machines - here Joe shows us a fully functioning 1896 Mutuscope!

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