The silent era was the first major period in cinematic history. Spanning the medium's inception all the way to the late 1920s ...

Many influential movies have been lost to time, no longer taking on the same relevance they once had or simply fading into ...

These new crime films were different from the morality tales of the silent era's crime genre. Their ethnic characters, pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, were the new archetypal Americans.

Between 1900 and 1929, when Sid Grauman ran silent ... and period aesthetics. The AMRC is also working to produce music packets for K-12 musicians, especially high school orchestras, who will be able ...