While only thirty percent of commercial silent era films survive today, there are still thousands of pieces of music composed and arranged for this medium that remain extant in archives and libraries, ...

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The appeal of silent films isn’t just how one watches movies but instead experiences the score. “There’s a community of people who are interested in silent film, but there’s also still an untapped, ...

Accompanying a 1920s silent film might be akin to the improvisation of the Jazz Age. “It all comes out of my imagination,” organist Dennis Scott says. “My sheet music is the image on the screen. I ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland Silent Film Festival & Colloquium is headed to University Circle for its fall series. The screenings, each paired with live music, will take place at the Cleveland ...

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, ...

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 ...