Saturday, December 27th, 7:30pm Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment THE MAN FROM BEYOND (1922, Houdini Picture Corporation) A man who has been frozen in the Arctic ice for 100 years returns to civilization to find his lost love. Starring and co-written by Harry Houdini!

Our newest video is up: Deconstructing Broncho Billy with Marc Wanamaker: an in-depth look at the world's first cowboy star youtu.be/OubLZZ6e1CM

Sat Dec 20th 7:30pm COMEDY SHORTS Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment THE RINK (1916) Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance GOOD NIGHT NURSE (1918) Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton THERE AIN’T NO SANTA CLAUS (1926) Charley Chase BIG BUSINESS (1929) Laurel & Hardy Tickets! square.link/u/qmLst6mp

Sunday, December 14th, 3:00pm Laurel & Hardy / Our Gang Talkie Matinee BELOW ZERO (1930) Laurel & Hardy THE AWFUL TOOTH (1938) Our Gang SWISS MISS (1938) Laurel & Hardy #LaurelAndHardy #OurGang

Saturday, December 13th, 7:30pm Bruce Loeb, Piano Accompaniment Help us celebrate the birthday of our President Emeritus, Dorothy Bradley! THE GENERAL (1926) Railway engineer Buster Keaton must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive and return it through enemy lines.

Friday, December 12th 7:30pm Odyssey Film Institute Presents: WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957) Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece! Preceded by a cartoon and short film. All on 16mm film! Tickets here: checkout.square.site/merchant/MLB...

I'm hoping all the #LaurelAndHardy fans out there can help me with a super-important research question. How many pianos did the boys destroy in all their films?

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920, Paramount) Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Barrymore) experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man. Preceded by shorts: SHIP SHAPE (1925, Fred Hibbard) VILLA OF THE MOVIES (1917, Keystone) Slim Summerville Tickets: square.link/u/GKV64QVv

Saturday, November 22nd, 7:30pm Comedy Shorts Night Jeff Rapsis, Piano Accompaniment THE PAWNSHOP (1916) Charlie Chaplin THE GOAT (1921) Buster Keaton PASS THE GRAVY (1928) Max Davidson DOUBLE WHOOPIE (1929) Laurel and Hardy Online Tickets: checkout.square.site/merchant/MLB...

Sunday, November 9, 3:00pm Laurel & Hardy / Our Gang Talkie Matinee HIGH C’s (1930) Charley Chase, Thelma Todd ROUGH SEAS (1931) Charley Chase, Thelma Todd BEAU HUNKS (1931) Laurel & Hardy

Saturday, November 8th, 7:30pm Bruce Loeb, Piano Accompaniment TRAFFIC IN SOULS (1913, Universal) With aid from her police officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.

Friday, November 7th, 7:30pm Friday Night Movies in Niles Odyssey Film Institute Presents: RASHOMON (1950) Akira Kurosawa’s classic film about a horrific crime recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, a bride, a samurai's ghost and a woodcutter. All presented in 16mm film!

In the latest update to our YouTube channel, author Marc Archuleta discusses the colorful life of bank robber and movie star Henry Starr: youtu.be/S8IBp7--Pcc

Saturday November 1st, 7:30pm Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment FAUST (1926, UFA) The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul. Directed by F.W. Murnau Preceded by shorts: THE DEVIL (1908, Biograph) D.W. Griffith THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1928) #SilentFilm

Friday, October 31st, 7:30pm Odyssey Film Institute Presents: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) George A. Romero’s seminal work that launched the modern zombie film. Still scary! Tickets online here (recommended!): square.link/u/IR9Tdimw

Sunday, October 26th - CREATURE FEATURES DOUBLE FEATURE 3:00 pm FILM: THE MILPITAS MONSTER (1975) 50th Anniv. screening! Rampant pollution gives birth to a vengeful monstrosity. A student film that became a world-wide phenomenon! Special Guest: Dir. Robert Burrill

Sun, Oct 26th - CREATURE FEATURES DOUBLE FEATURE 1:00 pm FILM: THE BOB WILKINS SUPER HORROR SHOW (1979) Bay Area locals in the 1970s knew and loved Creature Features on KCRA and KTVU and host Wilkins. Special Guest: Producer Tom Wyrsch

Saturday, October 25th, 7:30pm Bruce Loeb, Piano Accompaniment THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925, 35mm) 100th ANNIVERSARY! A mad, disfigured composer (Lon Chaney) seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. Tickets: square.link/u/CVRbsURX

Friday, October 24th, 7:30pm Odyssey Film Institute Presents: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) A millionaire (Vincent Price) offers $10,000 to five people to be locked overnight in a large, spooky, house. by master of the macabre, William Castle! Online tickets: square.link/u/wsy1q7l1

This Sunday we have a special Bob Wilkins Super Horror Show. And we're running a silent auction of fandom articles.

MEANWHILE AT THE ORINDA THEATER Sunday, Nov 16th 11:00 am $18/$16 Part of the SF Silent Film Festival #SFSFF2025 NESFM is co-presenting this screening of.... TRAILIN’ Dir. by Alfred Santell; 1921; With Tom Mix Accompaniment by Utsav Lal For tickets: www.silentfilm.org #SilentFilm #TomMix

3:00PM PRESENTATION: SHE’S ALIVE – THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN AT 90 and... FILM: THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935, Universal) Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

Sunday, October 19th MONSTER MEDLEY DOUBLE FEATURE 1:00PM : FILM: JACK PIERCE, MAKER OF MONSTERS (2015, November Fire, D) Legendary makeup man of Universal Studios, Jack Pierce had an amazing ability to create make-ups that have stood the test of time.

Saturday, October 18th, 7:30pm Spooooooky Comedy Shorts Night Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment THE IDLE CLASS (1921) Charlie Chaplin THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1921, 35mm) Buster Keaton HAUNTED SPOOKS (1921) Harold Lloyd DO DETECTIVES THINK? (1927) Laurel & Hardy

Friday, October 17th, 7:30pm Odyssey Film Institute Presents: THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) A clumsy young man working in a flower shop discovers that the strange plant he’s been nurturing has an appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.

Sunday, October 12th, 3:00pm Laurel & Hardy / Our Gang Talkie Matinee HIDE & SHRIEK (1938) Our Gang OLIVER THE EIGHTH (1933) Laurel & Hardy PUBLIC GHOST #1 (1935) Charley Chase THE LIVE GHOST (1934) Laurel & Hardy #LaurelAndHardy #OurGang #CharleyChase

Saturday October 11th, 7:30pm Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment NOSFERATU (1922, Prana Film, 35mm) Count Orlock (Max Schreck) engages an estate agent to help him with a transaction. F.W. Murnau’s astonishing masterpiece based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a visual feast and an absolute must see!

I am very much looking forward to seeing this formerly barely-known script of an unproduced final #CharlieChaplin film: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Friday, October 10th, 7:30pm Odyssey Film Institute Presents: WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. Starring Bela Lugosi!

The Stanford Theater in Palo Alto is running a program of westerns, including John Ford's silent epic "The Iron Horse", playing this Sunday. stanfordtheatre.org/calendars/We... More silents (not necessary westerns) off in November. "Greed" with Wurlitzer Organ accompaniment on Nov 23rd!!!

Saturday October 4th, 7:30pm Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment Happy 130th Birthday Buster! STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (1928, 35mm) The son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

Friday, October 3rd, 7:30pm Odyssey Film Institute Presents: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) A small-town doctor (Kevin McCarthy) learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. Directed by Don Siegel (Dirty Harry)

Saturday, September 27th, 7:30pm Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment CAPTAIN JANUARY (1924) A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.

Saturday, September 27th, 3:00pm Comedy Shorts Afternoon Watch as student projectionists hone their craft in this FREE afternoon show! What films will they show us? You’ll have to be there to find out. Come for one, stay for all.

I suspect that a lot of #SilentFilm fans like streetcars too, and might like to go to #SFMuni Heritage Weekend. www.sfmta.com/blog/join-us...

Saturday, September 20th, 7:30pm at our Edison Theater Jon Mirsalis, Kurzweil Keyboard Accompaniment CITY GIRL (1930) A Chicago waitress (Mary Duncan) falls in love with a Minnesota farmer (Charles Farrell), and decides to face a life in the country. Directed by F.W. Murnau #silentfilm

Sunday, September 14th, 3:00pm Laurel & Hardy / Our Gang Talkie Matinee MIKE FRIGHT (1934) Our Gang BACON GRABBERS (1929) Laurel & Hardy FRAMING YOUTH (1937) Our Gang HOG WILD (1930) Laurel & Hardy

If you're in Niles this afternoon, stop by Needle to the Groove, and see KFJC DJ's broadcast live from this awesome record store. Or if you're non in Niles, you can listen in from 89.7FM kfjc.org/event/7629

Saturday, September 13th, 7:30pm Comedy Shorts Night Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment THE FLOORWALKER (1916, Mutual) Charlie Chaplin NEIGHBORS (1920, Schenck) Buster Keaton BUMPING INTO BROADWAY (1919, Rolin) Harold Lloyd LEAVE ‘EM LAUGHING (1928, Roach) Laurel and Hardy

Coming to our theater September 20th! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VFY...

Sat, Sept 6th, 7:30pm Bruce Loeb, Piano Accompaniment THE FIGHTING LEGION (1930) A dying marshal gives Ken Maynard his badge and asks him to finish his job. This film print is the only known surviving print of the silent version; special thanks to Eric Grayson.

This Saturday is Nickelodeon Night at our theater--come dressed in 20's garb and we'll let you in for a nickel! And we're not going to nitpick about historical accuracy, don't worry! The program can be found here: nilesfilmmuseum.org?tv=639126315...

Nice article in #TheGuardian about Anna Mae Wong: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

This Tuesday the #RoxieTheater & the SF Film Preserve will have a #SilentFilm show: in honor of #InternationalDogDay they'll be showing The Love Fighter featuring Fearless the Dog, and Black Lightning, featuring Thunder the Marvel Dog and co-starring #ClaraBow. roxie.com/film/sf-film...

Saturday August 23rd, 7:30pm Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929, Dovzhenko) A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. This groundbreaking documentary directed by Dziga Vertov is essential viewing!

Saturday August 23rd, 3:00pm Comedy Shorts Afternoon Watch as student projectionists hone their craft in this FREE afternoon show! What films will they show us? You’ll have to be there to find out! Come for one, or stay for all!

We've just uploaded an interview with Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson himself, from 1958 (his memory of the early silent days is impressively sharp). www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y8S...

I've been working on a nother cylinder player with an issue that had me stumped. It had a warble that was a variation in volume. Finally traced it to this screw on the hinge of the reproducer. (The reproducer has the actual stylus, and makes sound by a coupling of the stylus to a diaphragm).

Saturday August 16th, 7:30pm - Comedy Shorts Night! Jay Brown, Piano Accompaniment THE ADVENTURER (1917, Mutual) Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance THE BOAT (1921, Comique) Buster Keaton ASK FATHER (1919, Rolin) Harold Lloyd WE FAW DOWN (1927, Hal Roach Studios) Laurel & Hardy

Wishing a happy Indian Independence Day to all our neighbors here in #Fremont who may be celebrating. Festivities will be happening in town this weekend: fogsv.com/event/fog-in...