Rare 1919 comedy offers a glimpse of early filmmaking—and everyday life—in the Lake Sunapee region NEWPORT, NH, UNITED ...

A mythical slapstick silent comedy that’s been missing for more than a century “miraculously” turned up inside a dusty antique shop in Japan. The long-lost 1919 film “Van-ar-chy,” starring old-time ...

Ernst Lubitsch's post-Hollywood film 'So This Is Paris' (1926) is a poor match for katsuben (live silent film ...

This illustrated compilation identifies people, studios, technical companies, and terms associated with silent film comedy from about 1890-1930. More than 300 entries are biographical, including ...

It took a little detective work - and a lot of patience - for film restorers Robert Harris and James Mockoski to realize the long "lost" 1926 comedy "The New Klondike" wasn't missing after all. Now, ...

The Second Hundred Years premiered 99 years ago today, marking the first official Laurel and Hardy film and the birth of cinema's most celebrated comedy partnership.

Sophie Simnett, the rising British star best known for Netflix’s post-apocalyptic comedy drama “Daybreak” and Brit crime feature “Twist,” is set to star alongside writer-actor Jack Whittle (“Tony!”) ...

A newly restored “It” launches Carlotta Films’ deal to bring Artcraft Pictures’ silent and early-sound catalogue to France ...

The great -- and the notso- great -- comedians who showed early movie audiences how to laugh will return to the big screen for Mirthquake, a three-day festival that celebrates vintage film comedy, at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Bengtson stands at Divisadero and Broadway in San Francisco in 2000 holding a still from a Buster Keaton film at the same ...