An exhibition at New York’s Bard Graduate Center showcases fashion’s essential, energizing role in the emergence of cinema as ...

A 1914 Japanese American silent film long believed lost has been added to the National Film Registry as part of the Library of Congress' January 2026 selections. "The Oath of the Sword," produced by ...

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 ...

Poster for silent film “Suds” starring Mary Pickford. Image via Wikipedia. The demise of the American silent film is a story well trodden. Once popular enough to draw in 50 million tickets per week, ...

This illustrated compilation identifies people, studios, technical companies, and terms associated with silent film comedy from about 1890-1930. More than 300 entries are biographical, including ...

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 ...

The cold, climate-controlled stacks at the Historic Films Archive in Greenport made the ideal place for film student Dan Martin to spend last summer as an intern: in a basement out of the heat, ...

Inventing glamour, composing worlds. Photography and the birth of professional beauty ; Glamour comes to California ; Worlds distilled : motion picture production photography -- The visual artists.

Silent films, as we’ve often observed here at PopMatters, are bigger than ever. We live in an age that celebrates their restorations in film festivals, on home video, through streaming services, and ...