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Nederlands Filmmuseum Discovers Unique Films Starring the Silent Hollywood Star Sessue Hayakawa
The surviving footage of three Hayakawa features have been preserved by the film archive.
Help Identify These Unknown Films
Take a look at some frame enlargements. You may recognize an unidentified film or its cast.
Help Identify These Unknown Films 2
You might recognize unidentified films from these descriptions.
Help Identify These Unknown Films 3
Take a look at frame enlargements on a Hungarian site to possibly identify American and European films.
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Answers to a number of frequently asked questions sent to the Silent Era staff.
Silent Era Information Resources
A listing of motion picture archives, museums, libraries and historical societies holding collections of interest to the silent era film historian.
The Top 100 Silent Era Films
Our readers rank the top 100 silent films that have survived to this day.
Silent Era Technology
Notes on myriad early film and sound technologies.
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A listing of our favorite websites.
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Winsor McCay The Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics
[AKA Little Nemo]
A shot-by-shot comparison of two prints, available on home video, of Winsor McCay’s 1911 animation experiment.
OLD NEWS (is Good News)
George Eastman House Appoints Patrick Loughney
Loughney becomes new curator of motion pictures at the respected film archive.
The Suffering Earth and a Light from the East
Lokke Heiss takes a look the 2005 Pordenone Festival of Silent Film.
Howard Hughes Films to Air on TCM
Rarely-seen Hughes-produced films to be presented on cable network in December 2004.
Beyond the Rocks (1922) Recovered
A major film recovery by the Nederlands Filmmuseum.
Serial Squadron Recovers Films
The recovery includes the thought-lost serial The Masked Rider (1919).
Sweet Dreams Are Made of These
Lokke Heiss reports from the 2004 San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Far Away, So Close
Lokke Heiss reports from the 2003 Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Sacile, Italy.
Divine Grace and a Touch of the Devil
Lokke Heiss reports from the 2003 San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Lokke Heiss reports from the 2002 Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Sacile, Italy.
75th Anniversary Celebration of The General (1926)
The Cottage Grove Historical Society celebrated the the filming of The General on June 22-23, 2001.
The 2001 Restoration of Cainà (1922)
Information on the Italian feature film recovered in 1992.
Gene Vazzana (1940-2001)
Gene Vazzana, editor and publisher of The Silent Film Annual, passed away on New Year’s Day 2001. Philip Leibfried offers his remembrances of Gene, a dedicated silent film enthusiast.
The 2000 Restoration of Napoléon (1927)
Kevin Brownlow’s third restoration of the Abel Gance classic.
The 1999 Reconstruction of Greed (1924)
Added storyline complements an acknowledged silent era classic.
AMC’s 8th Annual Preservation Festival
The cable network’s annual festival was highlighted by Hitchcock’s silent thriller, The Lodger (1926).
Lee Erwin (190?-2000)
Remembrances of the respected silent film accompanist, by Ben Model.
