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This 1902 Footage of a Flying Train Is the Film of the Summer

by Dan Schindel August 27, 2020November 5, 2020

The Museum of Modern Art has released a short film of a German elevated train from its archives, and it absolutely rules.

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Alice Guy-Blaché, the First Woman Filmmaker

by Allison Meier June 1, 2017June 6, 2017

Alice Guy-Blaché is recognized as the first woman filmmaker, going back to an 1896 silent short, but her career remains unsung in the history of cinema.

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Guy Maddin’s Algorithmic Cinema Resurrects Lost Silent Films

by Allison Meier October 17, 2016August 3, 2021

The director’s latest project with the National Film Board of Canada shuffles scenes into a one-time viewing experience.

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The Bumbling Robots and Awkward Automatons of Silent Cinema

by Allison Meier December 31, 2015December 31, 2015

The word “robot” first appeared in Czech author Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots).

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Nature in an Acid Bath: Early Color Films of National Park Vistas

by Allison Meier September 24, 2015October 2, 2015

In the 1930s the National Park Service created silent films, hand-tinted and toned with vibrant color, to promote outdoor oases to American travelers.

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A Disappeared Houdini Film Escapes from Obscurity

by Allison Meier February 19, 2015February 20, 2015

The great escape artist Harry Houdini starred in five silent films in the early 20th century, but one considered among his best was long considered lost — until now.

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Faster than Sound: Color in the Age of Silent Film

by Jeremy Polacek June 6, 2014June 6, 2014

Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, high-definition contemporary world. Yet by the early 1920s — years before cinema found its voice — 80% of movies could be seen in color.

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