Donald Sosin has been composing and performing silent film music since 1971. His experience playing at major festivals all over the world, often with his wife, singer/percussionist Joanna Seaton, informs the milestone in film music that is one of his picks, in addition to the rhythm of fluid animation and classic tales.

Donald and Joanna record for Criterion, Kino, Milestone, Flicker Alley and European labels. Their website is oldmoviemusic.com.

Films mentioned:

• The Adventures of Dollie (1908) - D.W. Griffith
• The Taming of the Shrew (1908) - D.W. Griffith
• Fantasmagorie (1908) - Émile Cohl
• Stenka Razin (1908) - Vladimir Romashkov
• The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (1908) - Charles le Bargy and André Calmettes
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - Rupert Julian
• The Gold Rush (1925) - Charlie Chaplin
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith
• Intolerance (1916) - D.W. Griffith
• Broken Blossoms (1919) - D.W. Griffith
• The General (1926) - Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
• The Great Train Robbery (1904) - Siegmund Lubin
• The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Edwin S. Porter
• The City without Jews (1924) - Hans Karl Breslauer
• A Night at the Opera (1935) - Sam Wood
• Jaws (1975) - Steven Spielberg
• Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - F.W. Murnau
• Pass the Gravy (1928) - Fred Guiol
• The Diabolical Pickpocket (1908) - Segundo de Chomón
• Hugo (2011) - Martin Scorsese
• Rain (1929) - Mannus Franken and Joris Ivens
• Parsifal (1912) - Mario Caserini
• Ingomar, the Barbarian (1908) - D.W. Griffith
• Alexander Nevsky (1938) - Sergei Eisenstein
• Ivan the Terrible (1945) - Sergei Eisenstein
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1908) - Arturo Ambrosio and Luigi Maggi
• The Night Before the Christmas (1913) - Ladislas Starevich
• The Origin of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (1909) - unknown