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Sunny and mild L.A. winters have long been used to sell our town to frigid Midwesterners and Easterners, attracting the sick, the farmers and the moviemakers.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A film shot in Indianapolis in 1902 that captures a menagerie of Ringling Bros. circus animals parading through the city's downtown has landed a spot on the National Film Registry.
The Northwoods has produced many remarkable people. While many thrive in northern Wisconsin and never want to live anyplace else, others must leave to reach their full potential. Winifred Dunn is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary women ever to come out of the Northwoods.
Legends & Legacies Silent movie star Mary Pickford filming The Pride of Clan at Marblehead, Mass. In 1916.- Library of Congress/Courtesy Photo Silent movies captivated American audiences around 1910 when film replaced Edison’s single viewer Kinetoscope and movie studios formed and cranked out films. Aspen followed the national trend with three theaters opening early in that decade. The first to open was Dreamland, part of a chain that also opened one in Leadville. The chain featured films from the American Vitagraph Company, the most prolific company at that time. A few titles from that per...
LebTown February 18, 2021 4 min read Betty Harte, born Daisy Mae Light in Lebanon, 1882. (Selig Polyscope Company/Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library) The silent film era dominated cinema in the late 19 th century into the early 20 th century, producing well-known films such as “Ben-Hur” (the 1925 adaptation) or the original “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Actors during this era faced the peculiar task of portraying characters without the key element of sound. We still remember some actors who thrived during this time, such as Charlie Chaplin or Mar...