PRESS RELEASE: The 2024 Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival Celebrates Nine Essential Centennial Films (1924-2024)
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 ...
100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s “pay day” on April 2nd
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 …
100th anniversary screenings of nosferatu with new Tom Roberts score premiered to sold out crowds
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 …
LEGENDARY FILMMAKER MARTIN SCORSESE, PITTSBURGH AND CINEMAS ACROSS COUNTRY, EMBRACE INNAUGURAL NATIONAL SILENT MOVIE DAY
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.