These are four pieces of motion picture film made by Eugene Augustin Lauste while experimenting with sound-on-film technology. Two of the pieces are examples of a sound only, variable area process, ...

A 1934 cartoon released by MGM, “Hell’s Fire,” may be the damnedest thing you’ll ever see. It’s a madcap, zany, jolly musical frolic set in hell, with dancing devils and a swinging Satan. The star is ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

It’s pretty wild when you think about how much movies have changed, not just in what we see on screen, but how they’re even ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the public domain. 1929: the year Popeye made his comic strip debut, Mickey ...

If there's any method you might use to determine which movies should be at the top of your viewing list, Sight & Sound's “Greatest Films of All Time” poll is a fantastic place to start. Updated once ...

October is here, and so is the undeniable anticipation for Halloween. With many popular horror flicks being released within the last few decades, “early horror” — a subgenre of 20th-century films ...

Betty Boop, early 'Nancy Drew Mystery Stories,' Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying,' and more lose U.S. copyright protection on ...

I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the same kind of ...