This weekend the San Francisco Film Preserve and the Tenderloin Museum are celebrating the history of silent film in the ...

Sauer draws on about 5,000 pieces from various collections, including popular tunes of the day and music by silent-movie composers like J.S. Zamecnik, an American who studied with Dvorák in ...

Film archivist Ken Wlaschin traces the evolution of silent film music from the late 1800s to the introduction of the "talkies" in the 1920's. Movies. Piano Provides Earful For Silent Movies.

The silent film "Peter Pan" plays on a small, flat screen, as Faulwell makes music to match the on-screen movements of a fairy. "I wanted it to be a happy sort of thing," he says.

Carli is considered one of the best musicians specializing in the music of silent films. He is a resident musician at Italy’s Pordenone Silent Film Festival, among the world’s leading ...

Jewels of Silent Film Music David Yearsley. There are few things worth giving up a perfect fall afternoon in Upstate New York for, but Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman with live music is one of them.

“It seemed like such an interesting challenge and an off-the-wall idea to do a silent film about jazz,” he said. For the subject of his project, Pritzker selected a young Louis Armstrong.

The French historical film was directed by Charles le Bargy and Andre Calmettes. In 1919, 15-year-old, Fats Waller got his first regular job playing organ accompaniment to silent films in New York.

Silent movies get update with rock music soundtrack in Silents Synced 03:29. BOSTON - A Texas filmmaker is creating the ultimate mashup, resurrecting silent cinema with a new twist, and you will ...

Weekend Events: Latin Jazz, A Silent Movie with Live Music and the Hong Kong Film Festival. August 6, 2010. Events: African Cinema, FONZ Photo Club, Conservation Clinics and More.

Playing such dramatic music over the course of a two-hour movie takes stamina, but these musicians call it a labor of love. LINK: Denver Silent Film Festival The Denver Silent Film Festival runs ...

The horrifying silent film, which is based on author Bram Stoker's classic novel, "Dracula," is now getting an update for the 21st Century, as a remake is expected in December, according to IMDb.