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C.W. Spoerry in The Early Years

Oct 12, 2023

The General (1926) — The Great Stoneface and His Train

The film that tarnished Buster Keaton’s career…

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Filmofile in The Early Years

Dec 24, 2023

Victor Sjöström’s “He Who Gets Slapped”

He Who Gets Slapped is an unusual film. It took a special confluence of factors to create…

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Alejandro Martinez in The Early Years

Oct 18, 2023

Why Is Abel Gance's Napoleon So Hard To Find?

The complicated copyright web entangling a public domain film.

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Filmofile in The Early Years

Dec 15, 2023

The First Film Based On Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Two decades before James Whale and Boris Karloff, there were J. Searle Dawley and Thomas Edison.

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Alejandro Martinez in The Early Years

Dec 16, 2023

Public Domain Day 2024

A list of films entering the public domain next year.

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Alejandro Martinez in The Early Years

Sep 23, 2023

D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms

A tale from one of cinema’s most complicated auteurs.

Alejandro Martinez in The Early Years

Oct 5, 2023

The Jazz Singer, and a Brief History of the Talkies

You ain’t heard nothing yet!

Alejandro Martinez in The Early Years

Jan 11

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's Leap Year

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was one of the biggest screen comics of the 1910s, in more ways than one…

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Dana Blythe in The Early Years

Feb 16

Favorite Images — Clara Bow, with the help

Taylor Swift's star power can revive interest in anything — football (yawn), Biden (double yawn), and apparently the careers of film stars from 97 years ago. Say what?!

Alejandro Martinez in The Early Years

Oct 13, 2023

The German Expressionist Film Warning Shadows

Celebrating its 100th anniversary this month.

These were the top 10 stories published by The Early Years; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2022, 2023, and 2024.

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Celebrating films, books, music, and other media produced before 1929 which have lapsed into the public domain.

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