A Pennsylvania man spent years trying to offload his great-grandfather’s trunk of old silent films with no luck — until the Library of Congress discovered it held the last known copy of the world’s ...

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, ...

Ichiro Kataoka reads narrations for a benshi performance. Benshi performers came to BYU's International Cinema as part of their "The Art of Benshi" tour. (Maya Taylor) Professional benshi silent film ...

Today, silent films still are celebrated and enjoyed at film festivals – even some festivals that only screen silent films. September 28 of this year was deemed National Silent Film Day. Companies ...

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 ...

A bored student carving his initials on a desktop. Coeds in pajamas, playing leapfrog outside of Old Main. These are not outtakes from the FOX teen TV series “Glee.” They’re snippets from silent films ...

The film historian and accompanist talks to IndieWire about his work as a "missionary" for silent movies and his company's physical media releases of new restorations of two classic Tom Tyler Westerns ...

Joe Rinaudo has spent his life preserving silent films... and building a silent cinema palace.

Sherlock Holmes fans are being promised a most authentic depiction of the fictional detective, with the restoration of a century-old silent film series chronicling the London sleuth's adventures.