Kathryn Boyd and Laurence Criner star in "The Flying Ace" (1926), a crime melodrama with an all-Black cast. The film, which was produced at the time for Black audiences in segregated theaters, will be ...

The silent film era feels almost like a dream now, a time when everything was new, and nothing about movies was certain. Actors had to rely on their eyes, their hands, and the smallest lift of a smile ...

A Pennsylvania man spent years trying to offload his great-grandfather’s trunk of old silent films with no luck — until the Library of Congress discovered it held the last known copy of the world’s ...

THE MAN FROM NEVADA (1929) Producer & Director: J.P. McGowan / Writer: Sally Winters / Cinematography: Hap Depew / Editor: Charles J. Hunt / Musical Score: Ben Model ...

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 ...

(please note this transcription is autogenerated and may contain errors) JADE HINDMON You're listening to KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Jade Hindman. Musician Ben Model has made a career creating and ...

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 ...