Silent movies tend to measure the length in terms of reels (with about 10 minutes per reel) ... And yet, The Great Train Robbery is thrilling stuff. Often cited as the first crime movie, ...

From daring train heists to epic stories of pioneers forging new paths, silent Westerns introduced moviegoers to the ...

The Great Train Robbery is the basis for movies like Riffifi and Ocean's 11, along with every other heist flick ever made. It's not as good as those movies, but we had to shoutout one of the O.G ...

"The Silent Film Universe" comes out on June 17, and you can find out more about Model's extensive work preserving and sharing silent film on his website.He is also creating a web page of chapter ...

What's shocking about the film is that it's based on a real incident from the civil war. On February 27, 1993, near the ...

You may think of silent cinema as dull or primitive. ... such as Edwin S Porter's western "Great Train Robbery" (1903) or Lang's science fiction masterpiece, "Metropolis" (1927).

In the early days of silent cinema, films didn’t come with pre-written scores. A local musician might improvise the entire soundtrack in real time, much like Rapsis does today.

Students from area high schools will debut their original motion pictures at the Halloween Student Silent Film Festival on Wednesday, Oct. 18. Unlike other film competitions, however, the movies ...

‘The Silent Film Universe’ By Ben Model Undercrank Productions, 211 Pages. In a new book, “The Silent Film Universe,” Ben Model enumerates the characteristics peculiar to the title subject, but once ...

Silent Movie Mondays came to fruition as part of the ongoing celebration of the Balboa Theatre’s 100th anniversary, inspired by the desire to return to its roots as a silent cinema house with ...