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 ...

Studios often destroyed prints to reclaim silver from the reels or simply tossed them aside once profits dried up. By the time preservation efforts began in earnest, it was too late for most. Nearly ...

LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - A hundred years since Charlie Chaplin directed and starred in his first feature-length film "The Kid", some of the silent comic's best-known movies are being restored to be ...

It’s a long-standing and commonplace belief among movie nerds that the highest level of cinematic purity was lost with the transition from silent film to talkies. Not surprisingly, the argument has ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Diego Theatres will screen a series of silent films accompanied by organists on various Mondays beginning in August at the Balboa Theatre in the Gaslamp. This special showcase invites audience ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...