Silent Movies
At the advent of the twentieth century, America stood as the most prosperous nation in the world. William S. McKinley was well regarded as President; photographs replaced illustrations i...
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By viewing some of the cinematic classics from the early days of filmmaking, and examining the performances of such comedic legends as Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold L...
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Marcel MarceauPARIS (AP) _ Marcel Marceau, the master of mime who transformed silence into poetry with lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions that spoke to generations of young and old, died ...
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Block parties and street fairs are a sure sign that spring has arrived. But you might want to trade in roasted corn and trashy trinkets for ballet performances and panel discussions at Symphony Spa...
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''Ai no Yokan'' (The Rebirth) by Japanese director Masahiro
Kobayashi won the Golden Leopard at the 60th Locarno International
Film Festival on Saturday.
The work by Ko...
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The Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences is suing to stop the public sale of two Academy Awards given to silent film star Mary Pickford.In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, the academy claims i...
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Dec 5 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on December 12 in history: 1913 - Leonardo Da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" was
recovered in Florence two years after it ha...
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Alfred Hitchcock knew fear. Once, when he was 5 and created some mischief, his father sent him to the local police station with a note. After reading the note, a sergeant put the boy in a cell for ...
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Today is Thursday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2007. There are 130 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti we...
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Long thought to be purebred, the wild bison of Santa Catalina Island in fact have a little bit of cow in them, the first DNA analysis of the animals found. Nearly half of the 98 American bison ship...
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Bathtub filmmakers in New York can score face-time and pointers from Tribeca-bound Hollywood brass—gratis—through Sunday, May 6. Having hosted discussions with directors like Fargo̵...
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The negative of a feature-length film is typically treated with the utmost care, preserved meticulously to produce prints and DVDs.After slaving over his film for six years, however, Paolo Cherchi ...
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