Several composers had already created scores for Vertov's film, an experimental silent documentary presenting a collage of images of day-to-day life in the Soviet Union of the 1920s.

Closed captioning made its debut on television 40 years ago, but hardly anyone seems to know who pioneered the technology. Emerson Romero was a deaf silent movie actor and Charlie Chaplin ...

Back in 2009, when the movie world was caught up in the excitement of Avatar ’s innovative 3-D, a French director named Michel Hazanavicius was taking part in an experiment of a different kind.

These days, Hollywood is the movie-making capital of the world. But had Los Angeles not lured filmmakers to go west, we might be hearing “Lights, Camera, Action!” in Jacksonville, and the River City ...