The 1910s marked the birth of movie stardom, with women playing a central role in shaping this new form of entertainment. In ...

Four of the most iconic and highly regarded silent films ever made will play the silver screen for Seattle Theatre Group's (STG) 2024/25 Silent Movie Mondays, the annual series that honors the history ...

On Nov. 13, the Orinda Theatre hosted the annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival — a festival exploring the archives from the silent movie era of the 1920s that have since awaited their time to ...

Denver Film is hosting its annual Denver Silent Film Festival on September 27-29, 2024. The festival serves to honor the masterpieces made during the silent era. Many of these movies have been ...

Today, silent films still are celebrated and enjoyed at film festivals – even some festivals that only screen silent films. September 28 of this year was deemed National Silent Film Day. Companies ...

Kathryn Boyd and Laurence Criner star in "The Flying Ace" (1926), a crime melodrama with an all-Black cast. The film, which was produced at the time for Black audiences in segregated theaters, will be ...

There is perhaps only one place in America that shows weekly silent movies on antique projectors using the original film prints, the light flickering across the screen as stories unfold. And that is ...

Still from 1915 Charlie Chaplin comedy produced by Essanay, showing studio logo via Wikimedia Essanay Studios, via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. https://commons ...

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OGUNQUIT, Maine — It was a film considered so frightening when first released that theaters were advised to have doctors standing by in case moviegoers fainted. It was the original big screen ...