During the silent film era between the mid-1890s and the late 1920s, movies were almost always accompanied by live music. … ...

In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, mime and title cards. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, ...

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 ...

The Passion of Joan of Arc (French: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc ... Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by ...

LOS ANGELES -- In the hit movie “Wicked,” those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ...

Silent films ... first silent movie in several decades. That plot leads to a lot of fun twists from Brooks’s regular collaborators Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman, along with fun cameos by James Caan, ...

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 ...

The Netherlands Silent Film Festival (NSFF) is the largest film festival in the Netherlands in the field of silent films from the 1920s and 1930s and takes place every January in Pand P and ...

The 16-millimeter film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of "The Heart of Lincoln," a silent movie about the life of President Abraham Lincoln and American life during the Civil War.

The 1915 silent film The Heart of Lincoln has long been listed by the Library of Congress as one of the 7,000 pre-sound movies that’s been lost to history. But thanks to a sharp-eyed intern at the ...

Silent movies ... first silent movie in several decades. That plot leads to a lot of fun twists from Brooks’s regular collaborators Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman, along with fun cameos by James Caan, ...