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The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum is located in what is now the historic district of Niles in the city of Fremont, CA. The museum is housed in the Edison Theater, a century-old Nickelodeon movie theater, just half a block from the former site of the Niles Essanay Studios where Broncho Billy and Charlie Chaplin made films in the 1910s. It is dedicated to preserving and showing silent films and their history. The silent film historical work of one of the members of its staff, David Kiehn, was featured on '' 60 Minutes'' for demonstrating that a film shot in San Francisco titled ''
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for April 16, 2011, in celebration of Chaplin's 122nd birthday, they collaborated with the Niles Silent Film Museum to produce the short. The museum houses a large collection of Motion Picture equipment and related artifacts, as well as about 10,000
The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum is located in what is now the historic district of Niles in the city of Fremont, CA. The museum is housed in the Edison Theater, a century-old Nickelodeon movie theater, just half a block from the former site of the Niles Essanay Studios where Broncho Billy and Charlie Chaplin made films in the 1910s. It is dedicated to preserving and showing silent films and their history. The silent film historical work of one of the members of its staff, David Kiehn, was featured on '' 60 Minutes'' for demonstrating that a film shot in San Francisco titled ''A Trip Down Market Street
''A Trip Down Market Street'' is a 1906 phantom ride film of a cable car as it travels down Market Street in San Francisco. It is notable for capturing the city four days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film shows details of dail ...
'' was actually made a few days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Additionally, when Google
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for April 16, 2011, in celebration of Chaplin's 122nd birthday, they collaborated with the Niles Silent Film Museum to produce the short. The museum houses a large collection of Motion Picture equipment and related artifacts, as well as about 10,000
Silent Films
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, whe ...
in their archive.
References
* http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20090318093744/http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/S%26A_story.htm * http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/mission1.htm * http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/60_minutes-promo.htm * http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6966797n&tag=contentMain;contentBody * http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20054449-52.html