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Since 2014, the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive has been digitizing and sharing printed music for the silent cinema. Today the Archive contains nearly 2,000 individual pieces of sheet music and more than 3,000 links to music held by our partners; scores; collections of short pieces (also called photoplay albums); cue sheets; instruction manuals; and much more.

Cover of song "Love's Ship"

Learn more about the music for early film.

Find out about what we include in the Archive.

Browse our Collections.

See how to cite the materials you find here.

Read about what’s new in the Archive.

Meet the people who make the Archive work.

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