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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

4 / 8 This one’s mandatory viewing for cinephile Silent Hill fans, since this film’s DNA is all over ... One of the things that a lot of old-schoolers—even the ones who generally liked ...

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