The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg is screening a series of films online celebrating unsung pioneers of African American cinema. As part of “Pioneers of African American ...

Long before Hollywood embraced diversity, Jacksonville’s Norman Studios was breaking barriers with “race films” that cast Black actors in heroic, leading roles. Now a historical film museum, the ...

That made for a lot of competition in the early days of the movie business — competition that fueled the rise of an indie-films culture as early as 1909. Not that you'd know it from the history ...

SOUTH SHORE LIGHT It all came about because American Vitagraph Company, a Brooklyn-based film studio, opened a location in Bay Shore in January 1916. That year, Vitagraph produced 26 silent movies.

For more on early animation, you won't go wrong with Donald Crafton's Before Mickey —the most ambitious history of animation from 1898-1928 ever published. This post also appears on Brain Pickings.