What are the roots of silent cinema in the bay area?
How did it play an important role in early cinema history?
What famous personalities made films here?
From 1912 to 1916 the Niles section of the Fremont area was the earliest home of California's motion picture industry. Charlie Chaplin filmed several movies in the Fremont area, most notably The Tramp.
The Ioka Theatre, Exeter, N.H. A one-screen house opened by Louis B. Mayer (who would later head MGM) in 1915 with 'The Birth of a Nation,' this 400-seat theater was a mainstay in downtown Exeter until it closed at the end of 2008, in part because a mandatory upgrade to the fire sprinkler system was cost-prohibitive. Two separate community plans were hatched to convert it into a performing arts center (that would include silent film with live music), and yours truly helped in the fund-raising in the hopes that the theater could reopen.
Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson
Charlie Chaplin
Edna Purviance
Herbert Payne
The glamorous diva Beatriz Michelena
Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand
Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas
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