MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 2, 2021 As The Earth Turns movie poster Join Edmonds composer and music producer Ed Hartman for a special free screening of the 1938 silent film, As the Earth Turns, Friday, May 7 at 1 p.m. via Zoom. Reservations are required at zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlfu2opz0tG9fLNXf6fmC1TdgJV0Abi88Z. Presented by the City of Edmonds Arts Commission. “As the Earth Turns” is a science-fiction silent film by former Seattle filmmaker Richard Lyford. It is one of several films Lyford made before finding success with Walt Disney Studios in the 1940s. As with most of Lyford’s early films, it was presumed lost until it was discovered in the basement of his former Seattle home over 80 years later.