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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from Lewis Milestone's newly restored "The New Klondike," a 1926 baseball comedy screening at the San Francisco Silent ...

Comedy is subjective, but some movies are just funny … full stop. A great comedy can be rewatched, quoted and revisited. While you won’t find the highest-grossing comedy movie on this list (it’s ...

Image Credit: A still from When the Clouds Roll By (Image: United Artists) Before the sound era of musicals and color movies, ...

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The 1910s marked the birth of movie stardom, with women playing a central role in shaping this new form of entertainment. In the silent film era, actresses relied entirely on physical expression, ...

Among the fellowship of silent-movie fans, if you needed to know exactly where Buster Keaton ran down a San Francisco hill - or which Los Angeles alley Charlie Chaplin turned into a comic battleground ...

It’s been a moment since the world’s first real motion picture debuted, the 1895 black-and-white documentary “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon.” But in some minds silent films are as ...

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 ...