Essays, interviews, archives, and video resources on early cinema — curated reading on films, directors, and movements across the silent and early sound eras.
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Released 100 years ago, Lon Chaney's grotesque yet sympathetic turn as The Phantom of the Opera marked a primordial moment in Hollywood history when melodrama morphed into horror and Universal noticed an appetite for monsters.
Craig Ian Mann · BFI
14 NOV 2025