I've got a couple of silent films (and two on the way in the post) and so I was wondering what you guys do when you screen something silent (either from the 'silent era' or not). Do you watch them without music to accompany them or do you stick on a cd/some music to go alongside? Obviously if we're talking about Chaplins, Keatons etc when they went to cinemas they would've had an organist/piano player to go along with the film so watching them with some music, to me, seems logically to be more "authentic" but the problem is that no matter what you pick it will almost definitely be out of sync/pace with the film*.
Thoughts?
*That said, Django Reinhardt goes reasonably well with slapstick comedies