Although fictional narrators and film narrators are both personae created by their authors, film narrators are more complicated. In the era of silent film, film narrators were often real people telling the story; that is, film lecturers. As presented narrators, film lecturers had the power to narrate the story of a film and even to intervene in its operation. Film lecturers were able to not only fill the projection space with improvised emotional reactions, but also make salient the affinity between silent film and drama through their voice and performance. Revisiting and re-evaluating film lecturers help us to explore the diversity and richness of film.
