Silent-era filmmakers worked without digital effects, safety rigs, or modern camera tricks. Instead, they relied on forced ...

The Ansco Memo of the late 1920s is a fascinating piece of American camera history. It was designed to shoot cheap 35mm movie film using proprietary cartridges that held 50 exposures (this at a time ...

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Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” captures 1920s Hollywood in all its decadence, debauchery and excess. Filming on dusty backlots and in sumptuous mansions, Chazelle creates a fever dream of vintage ...

Actress Clara Bow - the reason the term “It Girl” got its name - is having a moment, nearly 60 years after the iconic silent film star died. Bow starred in the 1927 film “It” at the height of her ...

Actress Clara Bow — the reason the term “It Girl” got its name — is having a moment, nearly 60 years after the iconic silent film star died. Bow starred in the 1927 film “It” at the height of her ...