• Sunday, September 18, 1:00 p.m., Hollywood Legion Theater: Buster Keaton's masterpiece The General (1926)
  • Saturday, October 22, 7:30 p.m., Woman's Club of Hollywood: Lon Chaney/Tod Browning Double Feature!  The Unholy Three (1925) plus The Unknown (1927).  Tickets will be available soon! 
  • Coming in November: Wings (1927)

Retroformat returns to the Hollywood Legion Theater with Buster Keaton's masterpiece on the big screen!

Plus an introduction by Keaton Talmadge, great-granddaughter of Buster Keaton and post show discussion with Dana Stevens, film critic & author of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century; Patricia Eliot Tobias, co-founder of the International Buster Keaton Society; Cliff Retallick and Keaton Talmadge.

Sponsorship for this screening has been generously provided by The International Buster Keaton Society.
And coming Saturday, October 22 to the Woman's Club of Hollywood: A double Lon Chaney, Sr. feature!  The Unholy Three (1925) and The Unknown (1927).  Tickets will be available soon!

Available now for patrons of The Vault:

Your membership in The Vault will help ensure that we can continue presenting unique silent films online. It's also the best way to support our educational and entertainment programming in Los Angeles.

Current Vault exclusives include: 

  • Theda Bara in The Unchastened Woman (1925)
  • An Hour to Live, Episode 3 of The Mystery of the Double Cross.  One of the last serials intended primarily for an adult audience, you’ll love it’s quirky, suspense-filled story of mystery and romance.
  • Tom Mix in The Man from Texas (1915) (from a beautiful tinted print) and An Arizona Wooing (1915).
  • Harold Lloyd in Bumping into Broadway (1919) and High and Dizzy (1921) 
  • Jack Pickford in The Man Who Had Everything (1924) ​​
  • The Masked Stranger, Episode 2 of Mystery of the Double Cross (1917).
  • "The Lady in Number 7, Episode 1 of Mystery of the Double Cross (1917)
  • For premium subscribers, legendary historian/writer Anthony Slide talks with Jason Culp about film preservation and his memories of working for Blackhawk Films.​

And much more!
The Vault is Retroformat's one-of-a-kind online archive of rare silent movies and special features. Here you will find Retroformat's exclusive digital scans of films from the USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive and other private collections, plus restorations by the Library of Congress and more, with brand new additions every month!
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