Writer Shane Bliss highlights films from 1926 that we won’t be seeing at this year’s festival

 A group of Pittsburgh cinephiles and historians with a passion for silent movies is proud to announce the approval of a historic marker placement celebrating Pittsburgh-born silent film star Olive Thomas. 

After a successful inaugural launch in 2023, the second annual Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival is back in 2024 with a new theme: centennial films, or films marking their 100th anniversaries since being released to the public in 1924 ...

In 1918 the First National Exhibitors Circuit hired Charlie Chaplin to make eight films for the unprecedented salary of $1,075,000 per year. Because he had produced twelve wildly popular short films the previous year for the Mutual company, First National assumed he would knock out the new ones in even less time …

On March 4-5, 2022, the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society, in cooperation with the Harris Theatre and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, screened 100th anniversary shows of F.W. Murnau’s classic horror film NOSFERATU (1922). Tom Roberts, who …

In April of this year, Mt. Lebanon resident Chad Hunter announced a new project called National Silent Movie Day—an annual event celebrating silent film history and raising awareness about the race to preserve surviving silent films.