The Franklin Historical Museum has launched a new series called “Cinema 80” and this month is featuring the films of Harold Lloyd, a 1920s comedian who rivaled Charlie Chaplin for keeping audiences ...

The magic of silent cinema and music are coming together again this September as part of the second annual Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre Silent Film Festival in Moscow. Throughout the month, the ...

Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, ...

Silent-era filmmakers worked without digital effects, safety rigs, or modern camera tricks. Instead, they relied on forced ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s a movie that hasn’t been seen in decades — missing for so long, that many didn’t even know it existed. That is, until it turned up in Omaha. On a projector in this Kansas ...

Yvonne Stevens, 104, an actress who appeared in silent-film comedies and melodramas and was the first wife of Academy Award-winning director George Stevens, died of a heart ailment May 27 at her home ...

OGUNQUIT, Maine — He was the bespectacled boy next door whose road to success was often paved with perilous detours. He was Harold Lloyd, whose fast-paced comedies made him the most popular movie star ...

Baby Peggy short AKA Too Many Lovers Our Pet tell the story of little girl Baby Peggy who warding off thieves This short film is one of the titles from 1920s silent film series Baby Peggy that played ...

Installation view of ‘Jṑqī́gácút: Tipi With Battle Pictures’ at the Oklahoma History Center (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The “Tipi with Battle Pictures” in a scene from the 1920 silent ...

Actress Clara Bow - the reason the term “It Girl” got its name - is having a moment, nearly 60 years after the iconic silent film star died. Bow starred in the 1927 film “It” at the height of her ...