The era of the American silent feature film lasted from 1912 until 1929. During that time, filmmakers established the language of cinema, and the motion picture

"Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Film Preservation Board."

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903–1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed a

Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television.

This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects--abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended--as rich and underappreciated resources for fem