LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

These films, which will cost more than $500,000 to preserve, are being divided among the five major American silent film archives: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the George ...

Now, 68 percent of the studio's silent films still survive. At the same time, Paramount Pictures, the early dominant movie studio, stands out for how few of its 1,222 silent-era features survive.

A new exhibition of vintage photographs of silent-film great Buster Keaton offers a unique glimpse into the life and career of the screen clown who starred in and directed such groundbreaking ...

Today, silent films still are celebrated and enjoyed at film festivals – even some festivals that only screen silent films. September 28 of this year was deemed National Silent Film Day.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of feature-length silent films made in America have been lost due to decay and neglect over the past 100 years, allowing an original 20th century art form to al… ...

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 ...

The film was directed by best friends and upperclassmen James Raley and Carvel Nelson in 1929 — and it’s currently the first entirely student-run, feature-length silent film to still exist.

Now, 68 percent of the studio's silent films still survive. At the same time, Paramount Pictures, the early dominant movie studio, stands out for how few of its 1,222 silent-era features survive.

Silent films represent some of the greatest works of cinema, and are regretfully neglected by most filmgoers today. These films are not inaccessible, nor incomprehensible. They’re fun and entertaining ...

Recently I took my two daughters to see a silent film at Film Forum here in New York. “Kid Boots” was a hit romantic comedy of 1926, starring the stage comic Eddie Cantor (roughly the Martin ...