It's hard to sum up the work silent film historian Ben Model does under one profession; he's a preservationist, a lecturer and teacher, an author, and accompanist and composer who performs his own ...

FREMONT, Calif. -- The Historic District of Niles in Fremont, Calif. is a living piece of history in the Bay Area. The district houses many original buildings built more than 100 years ago. Among ...

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 ...

The cold, climate-controlled stacks at the Historic Films Archive in Greenport made the ideal place for film student Dan Martin to spend last summer as an intern: in a basement out of the heat, ...

This weekend the San Francisco Film Preserve and the Tenderloin Museum are celebrating the history of silent film in the Tenderloin neighborhood. The event this Saturday at the Great American Music ...

On May 7th at Joe’s Pub, composer/saxophonist/singer Stephanie Chou presented her original scores for two Asian-American ...

The stars of yesteryear like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Anita Page, and Harrold Lloyd, may be long gone, but they can still be seen on the big screen. And for anyone who loves film history or ...

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 ...