On Nov. 13, the Orinda Theatre hosted the annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival — a festival exploring the archives from the silent movie era of the 1920s that have since awaited their time to ...

In the earliest days of movie history, women played key roles on screen and behind the scenes. Dwight Cleveland, author of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite being referred to as “The Silent Film Era,” 1920s Hollywood was filled with several highly talked about scandals, love ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Numerous iconic Hollywood films from the last 50 years have been selected for the National Film Registry. The Library of Congress ...

If you walked past Joe Rinaudo’s house in La Crescenta-Montrose, you probably wouldn’t think anything extraordinary of it. You wouldn’t expect, for example, that it contains a 20-seat silent movie ...

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Seventy-five percent of the film made in the original silent-era have been lost forever, according to a new comprehensive study from the Library of Congress. The study is the first to quantify what ...

Is it me, or does popcorn always taste better when you are eating it in a very old, classic movie theater? Upstate New York has dozens of old movie houses that are either pushing 100 years old or have ...

Title: Viola Dana Abstract/medium: 1 negative: glass; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Date 1900. (Photo via Wikipedia/public domain) Long before movie stars filled red carpets, a few of them might have been ...

In 1922, when silent films were still new and most theaters played comedies or melodramas, a Danish director named Benjamin Christensen released something the world had never seen. His film Häxan, ...

Numerous iconic Hollywood films from the last 50 years have been selected for the National Film Registry. The Library of Congress revealed the 25 films selected for the honor on Thursday, noting that ...