A study from the Library of Congress reveals for the first time how many feature films produced by U.S. studios during the silent film era still exist, what condition they’re in and where they are ...

This illustrated compilation identifies people, studios, technical companies, and terms associated with silent film comedy from about 1890-1930. More than 300 entries are biographical, including ...

The Library of Congress has created a worldwide database to track what's left, a hopeful "road map to finding silent films we once thought were gone forever," Martin Scorsese says. By Mike Barnes ...

Inventing glamour, composing worlds. Photography and the birth of professional beauty ; Glamour comes to California ; Worlds distilled : motion picture production photography -- The visual artists.

On Sunday, Sept. 7 at 4 p.m., Peace Lutheran Church once again invites you to spend an afternoon of fun enjoying a silent film as if you were back in the roaring ‘20s. Dress up if you like and enjoy ...

Silent film star Florence Lawrence also created an early turn signal concept, linking cinema history with automotive innovation.

First Congregational Church of Elgin will help kick off Nightmare on Chicago Street and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1925 silent film “The Phantom of the Opera” with a special showing on ...

Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, ...