More than 100 years ago, a Connecticut man traveled from town to town using a hand-cranked projector to screen silent films for people who didn’t have a movie theater nearby.

Beneath glimmering chandeliers at an Art Deco movie house built into the side of a mountain, 150 silent-movie buffs sat wide-eyed as snippets from films lost decades ago lighted up the screen.

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.

The Kansas Silent Film Festival will feature a variety of classic silent films from 1923 this year. It's the 26th year of celebrating the early days of the big screen. In addition, three short ...

This month, the Silent Film Society of Chicago (SFSC) is collaborating with three Chicago-area venues to screen the silent films The Kid (1921), The Artist (2011), and 7th Heaven (1927) with live ...

In what now looks like a prescient move, silent screen legend Mary Pickford paid for the preservation of her films, ensuring that most of them endured. Survey Finds 70% Of American Silent Movies ...

A local independent theater is one of the select few bringing a classic of world cinema back to the big screen. The Neon announced that the theater would host a special 25th anniversary screening of ...

Piano Provides Earful For Silent Movies To commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Charlie Chaplin, Morning Edition looks at the history of silent film music. Film archivist Ken Wlaschin ...

A restored, curated collection of Japanese silent films are going on an international tour courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s The Art of the Benshi 2024 World Tour.The Art of the ...

A scene from "Color Blind" is shown in black and white during the Student Silent Film Festival on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at the Tivoli Theater in Downers Grove. Lyons Township High School students ...