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If you live in the SF Bay area and this article piques your interest, you should check out the Niles Film Museum: http://nilesfilmmuseum.org/ http://nilesfilmmu
by not2b 8y ago
If you live in the SF Bay area and this article piques your interest, you should check out the Niles Film Museum: http://nilesfilmmuseum.org/ http://nilesfilmmuseum.org/ in Fremont, on the site of Charlie Chaplin's old studio. They are dedicated to the preservation of silent film and they have regular showings of Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and other stars of early silent film, with a live pianist and a docent who usually gives a 5 minute or so talk at the beginning giving you some background.
- not2b 8y agoThey are showing a Buster Keaton short (along with others) on April 20.
- drfuchs 8y agoAlso in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's opening night this year will feature the newly restored The Cameraman. It's at the fabulous Castro Theater, with live accompaniment by the SF Conservatory of Music, on May 1. Also, as it hasn't been mentioned, Keaton's The General is generally considered to be his masterpiece. If you see a picture of Keaton on a locomotive, or with a very fat, very blunt cannon, it's from this film.