A musical accompaniment for the silent film was played live ... who developed a lightweight projector capable of beaming a 16mm film on to a screen from a box in the ceiling of an aircraft.

“Babylon,” which recounts the debauchery and decadence of the early days of the film industry, Gossip Columnist Elinor St. John (Jean Smart) offers some words of wisdom to former silent screen ...

The comedian-auteur labored over his fifth and shortest feature film ... 45 minutes: silent films were measured in feet and reels not seconds because of the variable camera and projector speeds).

One newspaper called her “the siren of the silent screen.” In 1915 ... uttered in a text block to a spurned lover, became a silent-film classic. Some moviegoers, unable to separate the ...

Many silent film stars found it difficult to “find their voice” and place in this new Hollywood medium, which completely changed the game of on-screen performance. But while the talkies ended ...

Women In Film and Foresee Films are hosting a screening of the black-and-white silent short film About Mannequin, featuring live accompaniment from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Set for ...

Learn more. Rockland Public Library will screen “Go West” at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2 in the Community Room and via Zoom. In this silent Western comedy film, Buster Keaton stars as a drifter ...

On Saturday, at the 2nd Annual Silent Film Fest: The Show Must Go On ... in Maine the way the filmmakers intended: on a big screen, with live music. Though many people now — 100 years ...

Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic 1808 version. In this classic of silent cinema, the demon Mephisto makes a bet with an archangel ...