A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit’s ornate Hollywood ...

Dennis Wolkowicz, organist who co-founded Silent Film Society of Chicago, dies at 74 Mr. Wolkowicz, who played under the stage name Jay Warren because it was easier to pronounce, first tried his ...

Dennis Wolkowicz was a self-taught pipe organist and silent film aficionado who ran two Northwest Side theaters, the Gateway and the Portage, for many years and was active in efforts to restore ...

“I hate the term ‘silent film’ because they were never, ever shown silent. There was always music,” says Shelley Stamp , a film historian at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In the era of silent films from the 1890s to the late 1920s, music was often played live in theaters to accompany action that took place on screens, according to the Smithsonian’s National ...

Norman Studios Silent Film Museum preserves a piece of film history in Jacksonville, when the city was known as the Winter ...

Film historian Ben Model talks to IndieWire about his new book 'The Silent Film Universe' and his company Undercrank Productions' new restorations.

The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra will set the stage for a spine-tingling Halloween with two performances of the 1925 silent film The Phantom of the Opera on October 25, 2024, at St. Ann and the Holy ...

Today, silent films still are celebrated and enjoyed at film festivals – even some festivals that only screen silent films. September 28 of this year was deemed National Silent Film Day.