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A century-old silent film believed to have been lost forever turned up in an Omaha parking lot – where it was auctioned off to an unassuming collector for a whopping $20.
According to Model, silent films are screened twice annually at the Landmark Lowes' Jersey, home of the 87-year-old restored Wonder Morton pipe organ. "I played for 'Nosferatu' (a 1922 horror film ...
By Walter E. Boright, Ed. D Before the young motion picture industry moved to sunny California, films were produced in the east, including a number of silent movies in New Orange and, later, when ...
Silent films periodically have been revived with full orchestral accompaniment, Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” and Abel Gance’s “Napoleon” among noteworthy exam… ...
See L.A.’s old silent film spots Originally published February 25, 2012 at 7:00 am Updated February 25, 2012 at 9:01 am Taking a look at Hollywood locations for silent films of the early 20th ...
With my five-year-old daughter, we started with Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 silent-talkie hybrid about a factory worker who subjected to being a cog in the grinding wheels of the ...
The French historical film was directed by Charles le Bargy and Andre Calmettes. In 1919, 15-year-old, Fats Waller got his first regular job playing organ accompaniment to silent films in New York.
Now YouTuber Tom from Like Stories of Old has distilled Dunkirk into an 8-minute silent film, channeling Nolan’s silent film inspirations into a poignant, quick story of the men escaping ...
Richard Hughes, a 62-year-old Hudson resident, is a pianist in the old-fashioned, nearly forgotten art of silent film musical accompaniment.
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 barren valley ...