dusty weather and brown hills recalled an Old West town. In 1912, the company began building studios, actors’ cottages and prop workshops and went on to make more than 350 silent films there.

Anderson’s obsession with Westerns led him to Niles, where its hot, dusty weather and brown hills recalled an Old West town.

BROOKLYN (PIX11) –It was an authentically spooky Halloween experience Inside a 177-year-old Brooklyn Church tonight. In the ...

Niles preserves its silent film legacy at the Essanay Silent Film Museum, showcasing early cinema’s films, props and ...

Kinonik's screening of silent film 'Faust' on Sunday will be accompanied by a live piano. Seeing movies used to be very different. Not to sound like a crabby old coot on his rockin’ chair ...

A person looks at books outside the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont on Sept. 7. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) The museum has an archive containing roughly 14,000 old film prints ...

Not many people had access to a movie camera in the 1920s, but Simon J. Flood did. As manager of Flood’s Theatre in New ...

If the organizers of the Brooklyn Silent Film Fest are to be believed, this year’s event will be the most punk film festival you'll ever attend. Not far from Newton Creek in Greenpoint ...

Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are the two main comics from the silent era, but if those are the only names you know, then Harold Lloyd will be a happy discovery. His movie Safety Last!is ...

Return to Silent Hill will be a direct adaptation of Silent Hill 2, focusing on James Sunderland's search for his missing wife. The film's success hinges on faithful storytelling and avoiding the ...