Silent movies tend to measure the length in terms of reels (with about 10 minutes per reel) and use intertitles rather than synchronized dialogue to express words, but otherwise, they function ...
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 ...
In fact, most silent movies do have some sort of a score, even if it’s music that an organist played in a theater or a later distributor added to a home video release. Once modern film fans know ...
The 16-millimeter 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 and American life during the Civil War.
The 1926 film "The Flying Ace" will be screened with live musical accompaniment to mark Black History Month. The film is one ...