Many silent films from the early 1900s no longer exist ... will also include more than 7,000 frame samples from early and mostly lost U.S. films, plus access to more than 2,500 archival films across ...

All that gunk in the before is chemical decomposition, which has destroyed an estimated 75% of American silent films. But here is where they get saved: the George Eastman Museum, where archivists ...

Watch how a restoration of the silent film-inspired “Compensation” was ... scene to include captionings in strategic parts of the frame,” said Davis. With the ability to use the entire ...

So, it makes perfect sense the Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Silent Film Festival & Colloquium (CSFF) are teaming up to present a series of classic silent films. The free, monthly ...

Between 1900 and 1929, when Sid Grauman ran silent films with live orchestral accompaniment in his Hollywood “movie palaces,” he probably never imagined that the thousands of orchestral scores used by ...