"Over the last few years Bristol Silents has done the well-nigh impossible job of raising public awareness in silent cinema to an incredible degree - to have instigated the Watershed seasons, the Slapstick festival and now a TV series is a phenomenal achievement which shows a canny mix of professionalism and a shrewd awareness of both the films and the personalities who can bring the public in. Bristol is extremely lucky to have them, but then again so is the archive movie industry as a whole."