To that end, Model has now collected his thoughts on the art form in “The Silent Film Universe,” a book that breaks down all the things silent movies do beautifully and explores why and how ...

Bill Allen, an instructor at Lyons Township High School, welcomes audience to the Student Silent Film Festival on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the Tivoli Theater in Downers Grove. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer ...

Douglas Fairbanks was the quintessential star of the 1920s. Starring in some of the best classic fantasy films, Fairbanks became known as a swashbuckler thanks to roles in films like the seminal The ...

The silent film era represents the earliest days of cinema. In Hollywood, silent movies starred some truly original and innovative talent, famous names that still resonate throughout the world today.

Dizzying though it was, the shot paid off. In the silent era, when the camera was a gigantic apparatus not easily given to smooth, sweeping movement, special tracks had to be built to give us some of ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

Francis Ford as the 16th president in “The Heart of Lincoln,” which he also directed. The newly discovered film had been among 7,000 silent films deemed lost by the Library of Congress.

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 ...

Arts on the Square at Market Square Presbyterian Church will host Jason Roberts, New York City organist and faculty member of the Westminster Choir School, to accompany the film on Friday, May 16.