Dizzying though it was, the shot paid off. In the silent era, when the camera was a gigantic apparatus not easily given to smooth, sweeping movement, special tracks had to be built to give us some of ...

You’ve heard these voices more times than you can count, but you probably never stopped to think about who was behind them.

Different actors from different walks of life are given a shot at being a movie star. Hollywood wants it to happen…but it doesn’t. These attempts at minting a new movie star didn’t quite work.

Sherlock Holmes can be old-school, punk, steampunk, or just a boor with great cheekbones. He’s survived silent films, ...

His performance in the silent film The Artist (2011), which won five Oscars, provoked fans to clamor for animals to receive the coveted film awards. He also has a memoir out in print, Uggie, My Story.

In Burchard, you can tour the birthplace of silent film star Harold Lloyd.

Plenty of film crews go to extreme lengths to create scary movie scenes for horror films, thrillers, etc. Sometimes, however, the truly terrifying stuff is going on behind-the-scenes. Everyone was ...

Well, not quite. That title should go to Buster Keaton, the doe-eyed, stoney-faced maverick of the silent film era, whose extraordinary stunts make Tom Cruise look risk-averse.

Near Sims Park in downtown New Port Richey is the Gloria Swanson Parking Lot — named early in the 1990s after the famous silent movie star who appeared in 66 films, won a Golden Globe Award and was ...

A 1915 silent film about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island.