More than 10,000 of the images once hung in movie theater foyers are now being digitized for preservation and publication, thanks to an agreement between Chicago-based collector Dwight Cleveland ...

“People love a lost-film story,” says Becca Hall, director of operations at the nonprofit Chicago Film Society. “It gets to the core of what appeals to people about analog media. … ...

A study from the Library of Congress reveals for the first time how many feature films produced by U.S. studios during the silent film era still exist, what condition they're in and where they are ...

Silent Films, Silent Sorrow. A collection of Mikio Naruse's earliest movies, ... (1960), each a quintessential example of Japanese moviemaking from its golden age, ...

Nearly 80% of the silent archives were destroyed or lost when silent film was superseded by talkies. Wings, for example, raked in millions of dollars, won awards, and then vanished much like The ...

The Saturday screening will feature live accompaniment from organist Andrew Rogers and include a brief organ overture and screening of the Keaton short “The Electric House” before the main film.

Frick explained that Russia's digital preservation of American silent films is an example of how film preservation itself has changed, especially in the last 10 years.

In the early days of Hollywood, silent films were a boon for a generation of anonymous lettering artists. Hand drawn, black-and-white title and intertitle cards with scene-setting descriptions and ...

Many silent films from the early 1900s no longer exist. ... The legacy of the Paramount Pictures-released “Missing Millions,” for example, ...

CONCORD, N.H. — “Missing Millions" is a 1922 silent film with a darkly prescient title — like the vast majority from that era, the movie all but vanished in the ensuing century, survived ...