Kathryn Boyd and Laurence Criner star in "The Flying Ace" (1926), a crime melodrama with an all-Black cast. The film, which was produced at the time for Black audiences in segregated theaters, will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked ...

(please note this transcription is autogenerated and may contain errors) JADE HINDMON You're listening to KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Jade Hindman. Musician Ben Model has made a career creating and ...

In 1978, a bulldozer unearthed something rather strange in Dawson City, a spot along the Yukon River in Canada: film cans. Lots and lots of film cans. These were not discarded home movies. Instead, ...

The Secret Cinema will return to Glen Foerd on Friday, Nov. 21, for a one-night-only presentation of Early Educational: Classroom Films of the Silent Era, a rare screening of century-old classroom ...

A study from the Library of Congress reveals for the first time how many feature films produced by U.S. studios during the silent film era still exist, what condition they’re in and where they are ...

Combine the three streaming platforms listed below to get access to a wonderful selection of silent films. Movies today can be awfully…well, loud. Even if the particular movie you’re watching doesn’t ...

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 ...

He is a legendary figure among restorers and hopes to preserve the photoplayers’ legacy with a new nonprofit group. Tom Carroll stopped by his house to chat.