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San Francisco Silent Film Festival features iron-masked swashbuckling, flabbergasting twists, sexy farce, visual beauty, and strong women staring into the camera.

The last installment of the saga starring Harrison Ford also marks the end of a way of viewing a genre that has fascinated entire generations

ITHACA, NY -- Just over 100 years ago, Theda Bara (1885-1955), the world’s first international movie sex symbol, came to Ithaca, New York, to film parts of the feature romance

Silent film star Francis X. Bushman of 'Ben Hur' fame overcomes the posthumous oblivion that claims most of the stars who built early cinema.

…Continued from Part I. Visit Ithaca.com to read the prior installment. Theda Bara, the world’s first international movie sex symbol, came to upstate Ithaca, New York, in 1919 to shoot a big-budget silent movie. During the summer of 1919, at the end of the last great pandemic, Bara filmed parts of the feature romance “Kathleen Mavourneen” (1919) for the William Fox studio. Bara’s presence in town made an indelible impression on Ithaca and on Ithacans. LOCAL ACTOR REMEMBERED THEDA While attending Cornell University as an undergraduate engineering student, Leonard Miscall ...