The silent film era feels almost like a dream now, a time when everything was new, and nothing about movies was certain. Actors had to rely on their eyes, their hands, and the smallest lift of a smile ...

Henry Roberts discovers a programme of classic films at HippFest, a movie celebration in the most unlikely of locations ...

If you try and think about some of the most intense movies of all time, the silent era probably isn't where you're going to go first. After all, the usual suspects intensity-wise came decades on from ...

This documentary examines issues related to the struggle for gender equity and the portrayal of suffragettes in the early ...

Silent films were never really silent. Theaters filled them with live music… from lone pianos to full orchestras. This week on Reel Music, hear powerful themes from early cinema, including Wings, ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Film crews have been around West Michigan long before state tax breaks brought the latest batch of Hollywood producers to our doorstep, according to retired city historian Gordon Olson ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Bengtson stands at Divisadero and Broadway in San Francisco in 2000 holding a still from a Buster Keaton film at the same ...

This month marks the return of composer and multimedia artist Chris Strouth’s live film and music pairings at Minneapolis’ Parkway Theater, featuring new scores set to classic silent films. The season ...