Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the ...

The film historian and accompanist talks to IndieWire about his work as a "missionary" for silent movies and his company's physical media releases of new restorations of two classic Tom Tyler Westerns ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

Seventy-five percent of the film made in the original silent-era have been lost forever, according to a new comprehensive study from the Library of Congress. The study is the first to quantify what ...

As the City of Ithaca celebrates its 12th anniversary of Silent Movie Month in October, The Sun paid homage to a time when Ithaca was known as “Hollywood on Cayuga.” Beginnings at Cornell The history ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

I: Methodology -- The history of silent film sound -- Crisis historiography -- II: The late-nineteenth-century soundscape -- The musical scene -- Lecture logic -- III: Early film sound -- From peep ...

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The stars of yesteryear like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Anita Page, and Harrold Lloyd, may be long gone, but they can still be seen on the big screen. And for anyone who loves film history or ...

“The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 movie directed by the pioneering filmmaker Francis Ford, was found at a stock-footage library on Long Island. By Derrick Bryson Taylor See more of our coverage in your ...