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 ...

Some silent stars successfully transitioned to talkies, continuing their careers into the Golden Age of Hollywood ... in John ...

The theaters in Detroit at that time, the golden age of the city’s auto ... living rooms across the nation and silent movie ...

Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are the two main comics from the silent era, but if those are the only names you know, then Harold Lloyd will be a happy discovery. His movie Safety Last!is ...

The studio was founded in 1912 by Thomas Ince, a producer-director and mogul during the silent film era, built where Sunset ... In a 1961 essay for The Hollywood Reporter, writer Allan Hersholt ...

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.

Scores of silent films from that era were lost because they were printed on nitrate film stock, an unstable and highly flammable material. “It deteriorated, and also back then the studios weren ...

The film, which was ... audiences during the era of segregation. Race films, as they were called, featured Black actors and offered an alternative to mainstream Hollywood depictions of race ...

A piece of film history ... as among 7,000 silent films believed to be lost forever. The director and star of the film was Francis Ford, the older brother of legendary Hollywood director John ...