Author and historian Betsy J. Green became hooked on silent movies when she was working on her series of books known as the “Way Back When” series, which focus on life in Santa Barbara during the ...

Ben Harry is working as a projectionist, screening a 16mm film print of "Miracle on 34th Street" pulled from the BYU Motion Picture Archives. He was hired in 2018 as the curator of media arts history ...

After being lost in a Soviet vault for decades, the first feature film made in Idaho, in 1919, is now returning to screens. It includes significant depictions of Nez Perce tribal members.

Martin Scorsese's meticulous and unsparing approach to filmmaking has made him one of the most acclaimed directors of all time. And in his New York screening room, it was quite clear that he's not ...

Four newly restored films from 1927 will be screened how they were intended to be shown in a theater with an appreciative audience. OAK CLIFF - Nearly 100 years have passed since legendary comedians ...

For most music students in the 21st century, the idea of silent films seems strangely far-away. One new CU Boulder class seeks to change that. The class, a DMA seminar titled Scoring Silent Film, ...

This weekend, the Art of the Benshi, presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, comes to Los Angeles. It’s part of a world ...

"The only surviving copy of this 1922 silent film was found in Belgium," Raduly explained ... Yet within that framework, the archive-lab-fund alliance has managed to thrive, focusing on preservation, ...

A 1915 movie about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island. “The Heart of Lincoln,” released by Universal, is a silent film about American life during ...

Sherlock Holmes fans are being promised a most authentic depiction of the fictional detective, with the restoration of a century-old silent film series chronicling the London sleuth's adventures.

A Jewish kid from Arkansas pulls off the ultimate reinvention and makes himself a cowboy. In the process, he becomes a motion-picture pioneer — not least by filming the first on-screen pie-in-the face ...