During his internship at a Long Island film archive, Dan Martin made a startling discovery: Curled up in five sealed cans was ...

The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 movie directed by the pioneering filmmaker Francis Ford, was found at a stock-footage library ...

who hopes to restore the film and add a score to it, so modern audiences can be treated to a piece of cinematic history.

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the most hardened Swiftie might find themselves confused by a strange ...

Image Credit: Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Women had far more influence in the silent era than at any other point in cinema history, with people like Mabel Normand, Alice Guy-Blaché ...

“The [Ford] brothers were almost obsessed with Lincoln as this emancipating messiah figure in American history,” Martin, a ...

"With silent films, probably 70% of them are gone ... "A film like this provides evidence that film history is still being written." ...

Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are the two main comics from the silent era, but if those are the only names you know, then Harold Lloyd will be a happy discovery. His movie Safety Last!is ...

Laraine Porter, Senior Lecturer in Film within DMU’s Cinema and TV ... in how Britain was transformed by its own move from silent cinema to talkies in 1929 – the single greatest change in the history ...

The 1926 film "The Flying Ace" will be screened with live musical accompaniment to mark Black History Month. The film is one ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long Island. Dan Martin, a summer intern at Historic Films ...

who hopes to restore the film and add a score to it, so modern audiences can be treated to a piece of cinematic history. "With silent films, probably 70% of them are gone," Lauro said.