The Town Hall Theatre in Wilton will open its 2026 silent film series with a newly restored screening of the 1927 MGM epic ...

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 ...

Few Czech silent films are as renowned as Erotikon, directed by Gustav Machatý in 1929. The provocative romance has now been ...

Giving recently restored silent films a live soundtrack — along with a new life on the big screen and fresh audience appreciation for pre-talkie history –- has been the Chautauqua Auditorium’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from Lewis Milestone's newly restored "The New Klondike," a 1926 baseball comedy screening at the San Francisco Silent ...

Years ago, the late renowned film archivist David Shepard put together a restored version of Merry-Go-Round (1923) from two16mm reduction prints. Film historians and silent film enthusiasts applauded ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — The Robinson Film Center will host "The Unspoken Frame: A Celebration of Silent Film" on Oct. 22–23, setting aside two days to recognize the artistry and legacy of early cinema. The ...

The Museum of Modern Art’s 21 st “To Save and Project” international festival of film preservation, its annual festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved and restored films, will take place ...

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 ...

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 ...