With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the most hardened Swiftie might find themselves confused by a strange ...

Ron Evangelista is a writer with a burning passion for movies. He became enamored with films at a very young age when his father tirelessly watched them with him in a small apartment in Makati City, ...

Movies that are approximately 100 years old can still be pretty intense, as shown by classics like Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler ...

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 ...

Spanning roughly 30 years, the silent era began in the late 1890s, shortly after the invention of the movie camera, which gave rise to the Cinematic arts as well as to the film industry and national ...

Ron Evangelista is a writer with a burning passion for movies. He became enamored with films at a very young age when his father tirelessly watched them with him in a small apartment in Makati City, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Joe Rinaudo has spent decades restoring photoplayers, rare instruments that once accompanied silent films. He is a ...

(please note this transcription is autogenerated and may contain errors) JADE HINDMON You're listening to KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Jade Hindman. Musician Ben Model has made a career creating and ...

Riotous laughs, breathless thrills and weeping pathos — film managed all that when the movies were silent, the movies were black and white, and the movies were shot on actual celluloid. “The Artist” ...

Long before there were movie trailers to help people make their viewing decisions, there were these things called "lobby cards." The hand-drawn images or photographic stills typically included a ...