TIM DUNN takes us on a journey through cinematic history - with the railway as the ultimate muse.

Long before fiction, plot and performance took over the screen, cinema functioned as a record of work, movement, ritual, conflict and everyday life. Now, the history of cinema is celebrated around the ...

"Something Good - Negro Kiss" is an intriguing piece from early cinema. Only recently rediscovered, it depicts a couple embracing for some smooching--a seemingly rare filmic example from the era of a ...

Indeed it did originally air in color! I saw it way back then in 1973 when it premiered as an episode of an anthology series that ABC broadcast opposite the Tonight Show! Shot on videotape, it had the ...

Hollywood has been around for a long time, but I feel like not enough people know who the people were who came before them. Knowing the history of where this town has been can help you prepare for ...

Their inexpensiveness and short, often comical or sensational subjects allowed the machines a far longer life than the competing Edison Kinetoscope. The company also found success in its production ...