Bret Wood Filmes

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not...

A short documentary on the works of Buster Keaton.

Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith (1922), a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work.

A discussion on restoring title cards to English from foreign source prints.

Two women initiate their friend into the joys of evangelicalism.

Short documentary on the making of Buster Keaton's One Week.

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where...

Documentary about Buster Keaton's The 'High Sign' (1921) and Keaton's developing style.

Short documentary about Buster Keaton's first venture into features.

A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.

"About the Restoration" provides an overview of the recovery effort, hosted by Bret Wood. Also of interest are examples of movie making mistakes that...

Documentary covering the making of the 1985 film ALIEN OUTLAW.

Documentary on the making of The Dark Power.

A mysterious assemblage of men use led by a man in red use a tarot deck to determine what punishment to mete out to those they've already determined...