For most music students in the 21st century, the idea of silent films seems strangely far-away. One new CU Boulder class seeks to change that. The class, a DMA seminar titled Scoring Silent Film, ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland Silent Film Festival & Colloquium is headed to University Circle for its fall series. The screenings, each paired with live music, will take place at the Cleveland ...
The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities present a world tour of restored Japanese silent films coupled with live narrators, known as benshi. The ...
The long-running festival, held this year in Orinda, Calif., presented such films as Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Gold Rush’ in a ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Silent Film Festival is back in black and white! Bill Shaffer from Washburn University visited Eye on NE Kansas to invite everyone to take two days to step back in ...
This weekend, the Art of the Benshi, presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, comes to Los Angeles. It’s part of a world ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The River City was once the winter film capital of the world and a major contributor of silent films. Norman Studios, located in Arlington, was among the first studios in the ...
Silent Films Night at the Venango Museum in Oil City features the same Wurlitzer organ used at the old Latonia Theater in the ...
It’s been a moment since the world’s first real motion picture debuted, the 1895 black-and-white documentary “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon.” But in some minds silent films are as ...