The 2025 Silent Movies Benefit Calendar: "The Bruce Calvert Collection" Edition

Calendar sales are closed for 2025. Thank you for your support!

I produce this calendar every year with generous contributions of photographs from collectors and institutions as a benefit for silent film preservation.

The Silent Movies Benefit Calendar features silent film artwork for each month, and on each date lists birthdays of silent-era film stars and personalities, as well as notable marriages, deaths, and film openings.

This year the theme is "The Bruce Calvert Collection." Bruce has chosen Film Preservation Associates-Paris as the beneficiary of this year's funds, to help them preserve and restore the short films of Laurel & Hardy. The calendar funds are going to The Finishing Touch, so look for a mention in the closing credits of the restoration.

ERRATA: After the calendar went to press, I learned that the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will likely be moving to November this year. So, please disregard the entry in May! My apologies for the error.  

I sell the calendars through PayPal. You do not need a Paypal account to purchase.

A Note on Shipping:

Paypal has really broken their shipping feature this year for these payment buttons, and fixing it is considerably beyond my coding skills. I have set up two ordering buttons. 

The Domestic button let's you choose one to five calendars at $15 each, plus the average amount for domestic (USA) shipping. 

The International button does the same for international shipping. For shipments to Canada, you will pay too much. I will refund the difference between the shipping cost you were charged and the actual shipping.

If you want a bulk order, email me and we'll work it out.      

You can also order by check. Just use the amount listed in the button above for the number of calendars you want shipped to one address. Mail it to Rodney Sauer, 401 Spruce St, Louisville CO, 80027.      

  • The 2025 calendar raised $2237.09 for Blackhawk Films.
  • The 2024 calendar raised $2319.84 for the Film Preservation Society.
  • The 2023 calendar raised $2086.13 for the Niles Essanay Film Museum to preserve and restore some rare aviation films. 
  • The 2022 calendar raised $1753.66 for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's preservation projects.
  • The 2021 calendar raised $2421 for for the Film Preservation Society for their Biograph project.
  • The 2020 calendar raised $1859 for Lobster Films
  • The 2019 calendar raised $2019 for the George Eastman Museum
  • The 2018 calendar raised $2024 for the UCLA Film and Television Archive
  • The 2017 calendar raised $2005 for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
  • The 2016 calendar raised $1750 for Film Preservation Associates
  • The 2015 calendar raised $2300 for the Museum of Modern Art
  • The 2014 calendar raised $2240 for Film Preservation Associates
  • The 2013 calendar raised $1808 for the George Eastman Museum
  • The 2012 calendar benefitted the UCLA Film and Television Archive
  • The 2010 and 2011 calendars benefitted the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles California
  • The 2009 calendar funds supported an internship in film preservation through the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
  • The 2008 calendar funds supported the video restoration of Bardelys the Magnificent through Film Preservation Associates and Lobster Films
  • The 2007 calendar funds were donated to the George Eastman House.
  • The 2006 calendar benefitted Film Preservation Associates.
  • The 2004 alt.movies.silent calendar raised $1442.06, for two projects.
  • The 2003 calendar made possible a donation of $671.07 to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.