LOS ANGELES — From around 1910 to the late 1920s, the silent film industry dominated Los Angeles. The movies were filmed everywhere, from Hollywood to bustling downtown to what was then a nearly ...

These films, which will cost more than $500,000 to preserve, are being divided among the five major American silent film archives: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the George ...

Now, 68 percent of the studio's silent films still survive. At the same time, Paramount Pictures, the early dominant movie studio, stands out for how few of its 1,222 silent-era features survive.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of feature-length silent films made in America have been lost due to decay and neglect over the past 100 years, allowing an original 20th century art form to al… ...

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.

Louise Brooks was the Platonic ideal of a silent film star. Gorgeous, funny, stylish and deeply expressive without uttering a single word, Brooks was a '20s icon who defined the sleek, empowered ...

Douglas Fairbanks was the quintessential star of the 1920s. Starring in some of the best classic fantasy films, Fairbanks became known as a swashbuckler thanks to roles in films like the seminal The ...

Silent Film Fans Make Some Noise To Help ID Forgotten Treasures At the Library of Congress' Mostly Lost ... "It's almost as if they're still making new silent movies," he says. "Because there ...

This is by no means a complete list of every silent horror or sci-fi film; I was aiming more for an introductory array of films that are well-known, easy to access, and still exist more or less in ...

Though the film is considered lost, movie stills survive, and a reconstruction of the story was created around the still images. Like many silent movie monster flicks, it may be lost but its ...

Now, 68 percent of the studio's silent films still survive. At the same time, Paramount Pictures, the early dominant movie studio, stands out for how few of its 1,222 silent-era features survive.