The 16mm film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of "The Heart of Lincoln," a silent movie about the life of President Abraham Lincoln.

(Courtesy) A death-defying rescue; a robbery involving trains; a love triangle: the 1926 silent ... National film Registry in 2021, is one of the few remaining examples of a genre of early cinema ...

Silent films feature actors bringing characters to life through gestures and actions. They come from directors who compose striking scenes through blocking and set design. And they tell narratives ...

The cold, climate-controlled stacks at the Historic Films Archive in Greenport made the ideal place for film student Dan Martin to spend last summer as an intern: in a basement out of the heat ...

Between 1900 and 1929, when Sid Grauman ran silent films with live orchestral accompaniment in his Hollywood “movie palaces,” he probably never imagined that the thousands of orchestral scores used by ...

Between the years of 1890 and 1927, thousands of silent films were produced, with an ever increasing sophistication of story line and technical craftsmanship.

Feb. 5 (UPI) --A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long Island. Dan Martin, a summer intern at Historic Films ...

The 16-millimeter film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of "The Heart of Lincoln," a silent movie about the life of President Abraham Lincoln and American life during the Civil War.