silent film
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 10:15
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and to pay tribute to Mabel Normand during Women’s History Month, we feature this shamrock-bearing sheet music cover for “Molly O (I Love You).”The song was written for the 1921 film Molly O’, based on Mack Sennett’s tender love story of an Irish girl’s struggle to overcome her lowly beginnings. Mabel Normand plays Molly O'Dair, the penniless daughter of an Irish washerwoman and a ditchdigger who falls in love with a millionaire bachelor.[[{"fid":"55216","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","...
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Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 14:00
These photographs from the 1928 French masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc represent a recent donation of over 50 rare original stills from the classic film to the Academy by Miss Diane Lapworth. The photos were originally a given to her stepfather from the film’s cinematographer, Rudolph Maté; the two had met during the making of the film in France in 1928, and remained close friends for decades after.
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 11:45
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Mary Pickford Foundation will continue their annual celebration of silent film with the restoration world premiere of “Little Annie Rooney” (1925) on Monday, November 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bing Theater on the LACMA campus.
Posted Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 05:15
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates a creative turning point in cinema history with a screening of shorts and feature excerpts from 1913 in "A Century Ago: The Films of 1913" on Friday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
Posted Monday, October 7, 2013 - 04:00
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Mary Pickford Foundation will continue their annual celebration of silent film with screenings of two silent film classics from 1928 – "The Crowd" on Tuesday, October 22, and "The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg" on Thursday, October 24 – at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.