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 ...

If you try and think about some of the most intense movies of all time, the silent era probably isn't where you're going to go first. After all, the usual suspects intensity-wise came decades on from ...

The 1910s marked the birth of movie stardom, with women playing a central role in shaping this new form of entertainment. In the silent film era, actresses relied entirely on physical expression, ...

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Enamored of stars like Charlie Chaplin, he matched outdoor scenes from their movies to contemporary locales, creating a ...

Silent films were never really silent. Theaters filled them with live music… from lone pianos to full orchestras. This week on Reel Music, hear powerful themes from early cinema, including Wings, ...

I: Methodology -- The history of silent film sound -- Crisis historiography -- II: The late-nineteenth-century soundscape -- The musical scene -- Lecture logic -- III: Early film sound -- From peep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Bengtson stands at Divisadero and Broadway in San Francisco in 2000 holding a still from a Buster Keaton film at the same ...