Studios often destroyed prints to reclaim silver from the reels or simply tossed them aside once profits dried up. By the time preservation efforts began in earnest, it was too late for most. Nearly ...

This Sunday, the Austin Film Society, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, and Humanities Texas will co-host a special screening of Daughter of the Dawn, a silent film previously thought to be lost.

Seventy-five percent of the film made in the original silent-era have been lost forever, according to a new comprehensive study from the Library of Congress. The study is the first to quantify what ...

Ever wondered what the Philippines' oldest existing film looks like? The mystery is finally solved as film historian Nick Deocampo uncovered a copy of it in Brussels, Belgium. In a Facebook post in ...