Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, ...

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 ...

Joe Rinaudo has spent decades restoring photoplayers, rare instruments that once accompanied silent films.

In my case, I managed to slip in for a screening of Brian De Palma’s 1976 horror staple, “Carrie,” part of the LA Conservancy ...

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 ...

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, ...

Some of the first moving images of Native Americans were recently rediscovered in Idaho. They are in a rare silent film, shown to the public for the first time in decades. Northwest Public ...

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 ...

The free nightly screenings pair early horror films with live organ music inside the historic Center City landmark ...