It's hard to sum up the work silent film historian Ben Model does under one profession; he's a preservationist, a lecturer and teacher, an author, and accompanist and composer who performs his own ...

Undercrank makes it clear what transpires in missing footage with explanatory titles. By the time you get to the fragment, you are happy just to see this small nugget of Marcel Perez gold.

Among the movie stars lionized by Undercrank are recognizable names such as Marion Davies, Douglas Fairbanks, and Tom Mix, along with lesser lights including Alice Howell, Raymond Griffith, and Marcel ...

(Undercrank Productions, 76 minutes, $19.95). The first film on the DVD, titled "The Edison Kinetophone," presents a sole narrator, believed to be Canadian actor Allan Ramsey (who directed most of ...

It is presented as a silent short, scored by producer/accompanist/historian Ben Model, who is responsible for all of Undercrank’s releases, restorations, and original scores. This collection of shorts ...

Undercrank Productions’ latest DVD set, The Alice Howell Collection, has arrived to shed some new and long-deserved light on one of the era’s forgotten female stars. Alice Howell was a vaudeville ...