Tag: silent film

DIFF 2012 Red Carpet – Frankey Dey & Gary Cogill

| April 13, 2012 | 0 Comments
DIFF 2012 Red Carpet – Frankey Dey & Gary Cogill

Frankey Dey and Gary Cogill talk about current projects and Gary shares with us about his favorite silent films. Dallas International Film Festival 2012.

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Douglas Fairbanks 1918

| October 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Douglas Fairbanks 1918

Douglas Fairbanks, movie star, speaking in front of the Sub-Treasury building, New York City, to aid the third Liberty Loan. April 1918. Paul Thompson. (Army) Exact Date Shot Unknown NARA FILE #: 111-SC-16569 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 515  

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Historic Film: Market Street 1906

| October 24, 2010 | 0 Comments
Historic Film: Market Street 1906

Morley Safer reports on a mystery that was solved about a 100-year-old film that we now know was made on San Francisco's Market Street just days before the 1906 earthquake.     To read more about the film on CBS News please visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/14/60minutes/main6958102.shtml

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Long-lost Chaplin film to debut at Va. festival

| July 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
Long-lost Chaplin film to debut at Va. festival

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SLAPSTICON 2010 TO UNVEIL LOST AND FORMERLY UNKNOWN CHAPLIN FILM In past years, the International Film Festival Slapsticon has prided itself on recovering and presenting lost comedy treasures, even discovering previously undocumented films featuring the Great Clowns of early cinema, rewriting film history books and filmographies. This year, at SLAPSTICON 2010, [...]

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