Studios often destroyed prints to reclaim silver from the reels or simply tossed them aside once profits dried up. By the ...
A long-lost piece of Philippine cinema history has been found in Brussels, Belgium, nearly a century after it vanished. Its ...
Author and historian Betsy J. Green became hooked on silent movies when she was working on her series of books known as the “Way Back When” series, which focus on life in Santa Barbara during the ...
Ben Harry is working as a projectionist, screening a 16mm film print of "Miracle on 34th Street" pulled from the BYU Motion Picture Archives. He was hired in 2018 as the curator of media arts history ...
“The only surviving copy of this 1922 silent film was found in Belgium,” Raduly explained ... Yet within that framework, the archive-lab-fund alliance has managed to thrive, focusing on preservation, ...
For most music students in the 21st century, the idea of silent films seems strangely far-away. One new CU Boulder class seeks to change that. The class, a DMA seminar titled Scoring Silent Film, ...
Four newly restored films from 1927 will be screened how they were intended to be shown in a theater with an appreciative audience. OAK CLIFF - Nearly 100 years have passed since legendary comedians ...
A 1915 movie about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island. “The Heart of Lincoln,” released by Universal, is a silent film about American life during ...
Martin Scorsese's meticulous and unsparing approach to filmmaking has made him one of the most acclaimed directors of all time. And in his New York screening room, it was quite clear that he's not ...
Wharton Studio Museum is hosting its 12th annual “Silent Movie Month” this October in collaboration with Cornell Cinema, Odyssey Bookstore and other local organizations to celebrate Ithaca’s early ...
A Jewish kid from Arkansas pulls off the ultimate reinvention and makes himself a cowboy. In the process, he becomes a motion-picture pioneer — not least by filming the first on-screen pie-in-the face ...