This is certainly true of the emergence of color films in the early 20th century. While there are innumerable masterpieces of the silent black-and-white era of cinema, the use of color in the ...

It was, as all films were then, silent. Telling stories without words became a staple of animation, with early shorts like Max Fleischer’s Out of the Inkwell series and Walt Disney’s Silly ...

five film cans containing 16-millimeter film of “The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 picture that was one of more than 7,000 silent films considered lost by the Library of Congress. “The Heart of ...

Released in 1915, the film was directed by Francis Ford, the brother of famed filmmaker John Ford. It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as “lost” Sonja Anderson ...