It's hard to sum up the work silent film historian Ben Model does under one profession; he's a preservationist, a lecturer and teacher, an author, and accompanist and composer who performs his own ...
Combine the three streaming platforms listed below to get access to a wonderful selection of silent films. Movies today can be awfully…well, loud. Even if the particular movie you’re watching doesn’t ...
Enamored of stars like Charlie Chaplin, he matched outdoor scenes from their movies to contemporary locales, creating a visual record of vanished cityscapes. John Bengtson and Craig Barron, a visual ...
The film historian and accompanist talks to IndieWire about his work as a "missionary" for silent movies and his company's physical media releases of new restorations of two classic Tom Tyler Westerns ...