Shawn Hall Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway once won a bet writing a devastating six-word short story....
1910s
Homer Croy’s 1918 book How Motion Pictures Are Made has the best case for the...
1916 marked the 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Naturally, motion picture studios celebrated the occasion...
Over eighty years after his death, Cecil B. DeMille remains one of the most recognizable classic...
A plunge from the skies to the earth in a falling airplane was a mere incident to...
Outside of a few big names like George Melies or D.W. Griffith, whenever silent movies are...
Over the past twenty years, there has been a heightened interest in the...
This post on early Utah independent filmmaking is the second historical overview in my series...
No era of filmmaking has the potential to shock and surprise you quite like the silent...
