This year marks the 100 th anniversary of an episode in Utica’s history that very few people know about. The event was the making and showing of a feature-length silent film “made in Utica by Uticans ...

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From A Diary of Chuji’s Travels (1927) (courtesy Film Society of Lincoln Center) What do you hear in your head when you read the intertitles while watching a silent movie? (I personally read all the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...