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 early dawn of the silver screen represented a lawless, wildly creative era in which the foundational rules of global celebrity were invented from scratch. During the 1910s and 1920s, a highly ...

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, ...

For its centennial celebration in 2012, Universal Pictures launched a restoration project that saw some of the studio’s most storied films get cleaned up for the digital age. Nearly 30 titles, ...

The silent film era feels almost like a dream now, a time when everything was new, and nothing about movies was certain. Actors had to rely on their eyes, their hands, and the smallest lift of a smile ...

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 ...