The Spring Fest of Silent Films presents a screening of “Prince Achmed” at 2 p.m. CT Saturday, May 3 at the Michigan City Public Library, 100 E. Fourth St., Michigan City. The screening features an ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

It’s been a moment since the world’s first real motion picture debuted, the 1895 black-and-white documentary “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon.” But in some minds silent films are as ...

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For over half a century, Old Town Music Hall has performed live musical accompaniments to silent films, cartoons, and sing-alongs, while housing their behemoth mainstay, the Mighty Wurlitzer theater ...

There is perhaps only one place in America that shows weekly silent movies on antique projectors using the original film prints, the light flickering across the screen as stories unfold. And that is ...

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 ...

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The silent film debuted in 1924 to much fanfare but was later lost. Eventually rediscovered and restored, it has gone on to charm new generations of fans. By Derrick Bryson Taylor How many screen ...