Most of Hollywood’s Silent Films Are Lost and Gone Forever

Most of Hollywood's Silent Films Are Lost and Gone Forever

There may be a recent resurgence of interest in silent film (thanks in no small part to the success of The Artist), but anyone looking to get into the art form is in for a rude awakening. Of the nearly 11,000 movies made in the pre-talkie, golden age of silent film, 70 percent has been lost and gone forever.

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Many of the Most-Pirated Movies Can’t Actually Be Bought Online

Many of the Most-Pirated Movies Can't Actually Be Bought Online

If the movie industry wonders why piracy seems to persist, here’s one possible answer: people pirate ’em because they don’t have the option of paying for a legal copy online.

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A Company That Creates Fake Battles to Prepare Soldiers For Real War

A Company That Creates Fake Battles to Prepare Soldiers For Real War

Some might say that nothing can truly prepare one for the atrocities of war. From the chaos of screaming civilians and injured soldiers to the horror of exploding everything, the experience must be nothing short of horrific. And it’s this Hollywood production company’s job to reproduce it.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Gravity (Spoilers)

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Gravity (Spoilers)

Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter last night to offer up his thoughts—largely scientific—on the sci-fi stomer Gravity. It’s received rave reviews, but what does everyone’s favorite scientist think?

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Why the Movie Myth of Injecting Medication Into the Heart Is Garbage

Why the Movie Myth of Injecting Medication Into the Heart Is Garbage

Myth: Injecting medicine straight into your heart can be beneficial in some way.

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What Movies Think Aliens Look Like

Here’s a fun little music video about aliens cut from movies and TV shows by our friends Eclectic Method. Aside from the song hypnotically inducing you to nod your head, the video also reveals what Hollywood thinks aliens will look like: green, large brained and funny looking. How many of these movies have you seen? I’m betting a lot.

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How a 1940s’ Hollywood Star Helped Make Wireless Technologies Possible

How a 1940s’ Hollywood Star Helped Make Wireless Technologies Possible

Did an exotic actress from Vienna, considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood in the 1940s, really invent wireless? Not exactly, but the non-sensationalized facts of the matter are no less fascinating, involving Hollywood, the World War II Axis Powers, and remote control technology.

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The Best Effects Shots Ever as Chosen By Hollywood’s Top FX Wizards

The Best Effects Shots Ever as Chosen By Hollywood's Top FX Wizards

All right everyone, time to put on your debating/outrage hats. Empire magazine reached out to some of the top vfx artists around the world and had them choose—and justify—what they believe to be the top visual effects shots of all time.

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From Shock Chairs to Smell-O-Vision: The Movie Gimmicks of Yesteryear

From Shock Chairs to Smell-O-Vision: The Movie Gimmicks of Yesteryear

Have you ever been to a movie so shocking that the theater management offered you a life insurance policy just in case you died of fright? Filmmaker William Castle devised a scheme that did just that for the release of his 1958 suspense/horror film Macabre. Thankfully, they never had to pay out.

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A Movie of People in Movies Watching Movies

This supercut is a celebration of cinema appearing in the cinema. It’s so meta I think my head might explode—but it’s oddly compelling at the same time.

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