Acquires and preserves artifacts and history of filmmaking in Niles. Shows silent and early era films with live piano accompaniment in a reopened Nickelodeon theater each Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. Suggested Donation: $5.00. Popcorn, sodas, candy and ice cream available at our snack bar. Our building is the old Edison theater, which opened in 1913 and continued until 1923 when a larger theater was built next door and was used until it burned down in 1959. The Edison Theater subsequently became a dance hall, warehouse, and photo studio - and all of the businesses that have occupied the building since 1923 left intact the original floor, projection room, and many other features. THE REASON WHY NILES WAS IMPORTANT: Having a silent film studio made Niles special but it wasn’t like this was the only one. There were many silent film studios in the United States and several in the Bay Area - sometimes they were in tents or barns- but in Niles, we had the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. The studios built on what would become Niles Blvd. was one of the very first to be built specifically as a film studio, not adapted from another already established building, on the entire west coast. It was almost preceeded by a studio from the Miles brothers in San Francisco, but the '06 earthquake took it out just before completion. |
A Special weekend of International Silent Films Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum November 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007, 8:00 pm - Suggested Donation
$7.00 - With Greg Pane at the piano
Feature: The Italian Straw Hat 1927, directed by Rene
Clair, Comedy
On his way to his wedding, the groom’s horse eats the
hat of a lady, who demands to have it replaced.
Shorts: Blood and Bosh – 1913, directed by Hay Plumb,
Comedy
The beneficiary of a will, (a baby), is kidnapped, and
ends up in a hospital.
The Impossible Voyage - 1905, directed by Georges
Melies, hand-colored with live narration.
A group of Geographic Society members undertake a
journey through the Alps to the Sun.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
12:00 – 2:15 pm - Suggested Donation $5.00, With Judy
Rosenberg at the piano
Feature: Berlin Symphony of a Great City 1927,
directed by Walter Ruttman
Short: Drifters - 1927, directed by John Grierson
3:15 – 5:15 pm – Suggested Donation $5.00 - With
Frederick Hodges at the piano
Feature: The Lodger - 1927, directed by Alfred
Hitchcock
Short: Ueberfall - 1929,directed by Erno Metzner
7:30 – 9:30 pm - Suggested Donation $5.00 - With Jon
Mirsalis at the piano
Feature: Spies - 1928, directed by Fritz Lang
Short: “German Experimentals” by Eggling, Ritchter
and Walter Ruttman
Sunday, November 4, 2007
1:00 – 3:00 pm - Suggested Donation $5.00 - With Bruce
Loeb at the piano
Feature: Master of the House - 1925, directed by
Carl Theodore Dreyer
Short: A House Divided - 1912, directed by Alice Guy
4:00 – 6:00 pm - Suggested Donation $7.00
With Molly Axtmann at the piano
Feature: Mother - 1926, directed by Vselvod Pudovkin
Shorts: Frogland, 1924, and
The Voice of Nightingale 1925,
both directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz
About the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum:
The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, Inc. is a
501(c)3 Non-Profit museum dedicated to the acquisition
and historic preservation of artifacts and local
history of film making in Niles and the greater Bay
Area. The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum hosts
regular weekly silent film showings at 7:30 PM each
Saturday. Further details on the Museum, Film
Festivals, Saturday Night @ the Movies and other
events can be found at http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org,
or call 510-494-1411 or 510-796-1940 |
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