Niles Film Museum

Holiday windows of the currently closed museum. Be sure to check out our online films and programs we are offerings each month during this time. We have some fun stuff including next weekend 12/19 and 12/20! www.nilesfilmmuseum.org

Enjoy Holidays with the Chaplin family.

Tommy Stathes presents: Frosty the Snowman!

Tune in for some spooky silent cartoons

As we are thinking of Diana this weekend, we encourage you to help with this campaign to have her final resting place be near her chosen namesake (she took his name when she converted to Catholicism). https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-diana-serra-cary-rest-near-

December Online Happenings Direct from the Edison Theater in beautiful downtown Niles, home of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. GO TO www.nilesfilmmuseum.org for links to all this!...Continue reading

Coming soon! An interview with Diana's documentary film maker Vera Iwerebor! 10:00 am PT and 1::00 pm ET www.nilesfilmmuseum.org

EXCITING NEWS - Ron Campbell (King of the Clowns, Kooza, Cirque de Soleil) will be joining our Saturday Zoom about life in the circus and its use as a backdrop in film (both silent and talkies)! ALSO JUST ADDED: On Sunday, Strephon Taylor's I Believe in Halloween will stream FREE!...Continue reading

FORMERLY LOST, NOW FOUND ONLINE on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th RINGLING BROS CIRCUS PARADE shot in Indianapolis in 1902! This is a big one! Our silent film museum will debut a newly found film from 1902 online - this one is really special - it's only three minutes in length but you get to see a lot for that little time: downtown Indianapolis, a streetcar and hand-carved wagons and other things you'd expect with the greatest show on earth of the past - horses and elephants. The hi...story detective work of figuring out exactly who made the film, when and where it shot will be shared by film historian David Kiehn prior to the actuality debuting on the small screen. At 5:00 pm PT / 8:00 ET on Saturday, October 24th RINGLING BROS CIRCUS PARADE shot in Indianapolis Accompaniment by Frederick Hodges. Followed by a Zoom program: Dan Kamin, Nigel Dreiner, Jason Allin & others will discuss the Circus as an art form and its appearances in silent and talkie films. Also on the webpage, there will also be a link to a document full of frame grabs from the parade with some landmarks pointed out and historical info. More information at www.nilesfilmmuseum.org, on the front page in the middle of the slideshow is an icon that will take you to the October online program. Click on the photos of Baby Peggy, Nosferatu and the Circus Parade to know you are in the right place) and come back on October 24th to be part of the viewing audience! The links will be available on our website shortly before the program commences. Rena Kiehn Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum Fremont, CA, USA

To all you John Bunny fans out there who haven't seen Tony Susnick's documentary, it will be available for free viewing through tomorrow on our website. Enjoy! https://nilesfilmmuseum.org/?tv=4997833899900928

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25th A SALUTE TO DIANA SERRA CARY / BABY PEGGY - REMEMBRANCES of BABY PEGGY - DIANA'S 90th BIRTHDAY PARTY on film ... (A neo-silent short) - INTERVIEWS with DIANA - Q & A with her Documentarian and Niles Museum Friends Born October 29th, 1918, she became a movie star known around the world as Baby Peggy by the time she was four years old, she had a different life than most. As an adult, she authored several books on film history and became an advocate for child performers. Diana passed away this past February and we were unable to have the in-person memorial we planned for the end of March so until we can all be together again, online is the way we will celebrate her amazing life! An Elephant in the Room Documentary about Baby Peggy streaming on Milestone website - a major discount for the first 100 viewers that weekend - more info coming! ZOOM Sun 10/25 Q & A with Documentary Film maker Vera Iwerebor Memories shared by Larry Telles, Michael Bonham & Frederick Hodges 10:00 am PT 1:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm Amsterdam time See more

BREAKING NEWS * BREAKING NEWS * BREAKING NEWS --------------------------------------------------- MARK YOUR CALENDARS - LOOK WHAT'S COMING! OCTOBER ONLINE HAPPENINGS... Direct from the Edison Theater in beautiful downtown Niles, home of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. This month, we celebrate HALLOWEEN, BABY PEGGY & CIRCUS IN FILM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th HALLOWEEN The Terror of Dracula, a special version of Nosferatu CIRCUS FEATURE FILM: The Spieler starring Alan Hale, Sr FORMERLY LOST, NOW FOUND: At 5:00 pm PT, we will debut a newly found film from 1902 online - this one is really special - it's a RINGLING BROS CIRCUS PARADE shot in Indianapolis (3 min). Followed by Zoom discussion: Dan Kamin, Nigel Dreiner, Jason Allin & others will discuss the Circus as an art form and its appearances in silent & talkie films. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25th A SALUTE TO DIANA SERRA CARY / BABY PEGGY - REMEMBRANCES of BABY PEGGY - DIANA'S 90th BIRTHDAY PARTY on film (A neo-silent short) - INTERVIEWS with DIANA - Q & A with her Documentarian and Niles Museum Friends Born October 29th, 1918, she became a movie star known around the world as Baby Peggy by the time she was four years old, she had a different life than most. As an adult, she authored several books on film history and became an advocate for child performers. Diana passed away this past February and we were unable to have the in-person memorial we planned for the end of March so until we can all be together again, online is the way we will celebrate her amazing life! An Elephant in the Room Documentary about Baby Peggy streaming on Milestone website - a major discount for the first 100 viewers that weekend - more info coming! ZOOM Sun 10/25 Q & A with Documentary Film maker Vera Iwerebor Memories shared by Larry Telles, Michael Bonham & Frederick Hodges 10:00 am PT 1:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm Amsterdam time MORE PROGRAMS are being added and specific details to come to our website! www.nilesfilmmuseum.org (This Facebook post you are reading here is a sneak preview - our October program is not listed on our website just yet)

Happy Birthday, Buster.

We know you generous folks want to help this important project. Tracey Goessel and crew are doing important work preserving early Biograph films. https://www.facebook.com/donate/1225443447811024/?fundraiser_source=external_url

News from our friend Tracy.

The campaign is LIVE. Help support this restoration effort and be the first to own them on DVD or Bluray.

In case you thought you missed your chance to celebrate the Vitagraph and Biograph studios. You still can see the John Bunny documentary by film maker and Vitagraph expert Tony Susnick until October 19th. And the Zoom programs on Vitagraph (with Tony and historians Sam Gill and Steve Massa) and Biograph (with Tracey Goessell) are now available through our website (and our Youtube channel but they are in context if you go through our website) with this link https://nilesfil...mmuseum.org/?tv=4997833899900928 Pick up a copy of the doc and find out more about this popular early comedian www.johnbunny.com and Learn more about The Biograph Project and the Film Preservation Society here https://www.filmpreservationsociety.org/

In the kitchen with our friend Karie.