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Silent Sundays Features “A Fool There Was”
Theda Bara, considered Hollywood’s first sex symbol, and Edward José star in “A Fool There Was”, shot in St. Augustine, FL in 1915. The Norman Studios Silent Film Museum and the Hotel Indigo®...
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Silent Comic Giant Remembered for Iconic Football Film
Harold Lloyd in “The Freshman” (1925) By Christina Kimble From The Blind Side (2009), to The Longest Yard (2005) to Remember the Titans (2000), football has played an importance in film, but The...
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Buster Keaton: From Comedy to Cryptography and Back
Buster Keaton and Ernest Torrence in Steamboat Bill, Jr. By Christina Kimble “What you have to do is create a character,” once said Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton, who was an American actor,...
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Sister Act – Meet Constance and Norma Talmadge
Silent star sisters Constance and Norma Talmadge By Christina Kimble Baggage. Each of the Talmadge sisters had their fair share of it. Like packing for a trip and needing accessories to match the day’s...
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Norman Studios Makes National Register of Historic Places
It’s a goal that has been years in the making. And with the stroke of a pen, it became a reality this week. Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner announced Tuesday that the Norman Studios silent film...
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz at Riverside’s Rain Dogs
Mark your calendars for something cool! RLand Art and the Norman Studios present The Patchwork Girl of Oz and other silent Oz classics this Sunday night, February 22 at Rain Dogs in Riverside. A tad...
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Meet Silent Film Accompanist Tony Steve
By Christina Kimble If you’ve ever watched a film that stayed with you long after it ended, music played a part. Silent film uses music to represent the dialogue, set the mood and advance the plot....
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Four Legged Valor
By Christina Kimble Long before Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Old Yeller and Petey commanded film and TV audiences, one talented pit bull became a star, as evidenced by a screen credit on the Keystone payroll...
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First Generation Screen Clown
By Christina Kimble One clown to rule them all. Marcel Fernandez Perez is a silent film underdog and first generation silent film comedian who began his career in Paris in 1900. But how could an...
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Breaking the Internet Before it Existed
Before Caitlyn Jenner stormed headlines and Kim Kardashian wanted to break the internet, a different trend setter bobbed her way into the Hollywood scene – Louise Brooks. We’ve all seen people with a...
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The True History that Inspired Buster Keaton’s “The General”
Some people have two great loves- their wife and their car; their husband and their spa days; their guitar and their friends. For character Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton), who plays a train engineer in...
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“Legong: Dance of the Virgins”– Travelogue, or Timeless Love Story?
“Out in the Dutch East Indies, just south of the equator, lies Bali – isle of perpetual summer. In this peopled paradise, untouched by civilization, lives a contented race who joyously worship their...
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Brave Bessie Coleman – American Pioneer
Photo from Bessie Coleman’s pilot’s license By Mitch Hemann This weekend marks the 90th anniversary of the passing of Bessie Coleman, and Norman Studios would like to honor her incredible legacy as...
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Q&A With Poet Teri Youmans Grimm
Poet, Teri Youmans Grimm By Mitch Hemann Teri Youmans Grimm has been a great friend of Norman Studios over the years. She’s served on the board and volunteered countless hours of her time to our cause....
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How Well Do You Know Clara Bow?
How well do you know America’s original It Girl? Here are 10 facts you may now know about the feisty, fabulous Clara Bow. She survived an impoverished and sometimes abusive childhood – perhaps a major...
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Meet Silent Film Accompanist Tony Steve
Tony Steve by Christina Kimble If you’ve ever watched a film that stayed with you long after it ended, music played a part. Silent film uses music to represent the dialogue, set the mood and advance...
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Four Legged Valor
Roscoe Arbuckle & Luke by Christina Kimble Long before Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Old Yeller and Petey commanded film and TV audiences, one talented pit bull became a star, as evidenced by a screen...
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First Generation Screen Clown
by Christina Kimble One clown to rule them all. Marcel Fernandez Perez is a silent film underdog and first generation silent film comedian who began his career in Paris in 1900. But how could an...
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Breaking the Internet Before it Existed
by Christina Kimble Before Caitlyn Jenner stormed headlines and Kim Kardashian wanted to break the internet, a different trend setter bobbed her way into the Hollywood scene – Louise Brooks. We’ve all...
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The True History that Inspired Buster Keaton’s “The General”
by Christina Kimble Some people have two great loves- their wife and their car; their husband and their spa days; their guitar and their friends. For character Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton), who plays...
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