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MEANWHILE AT THE ORINDA THEATER

Sunday, Nov 16th 11:00 am $18/$16

Part of the SF Silent Film Festival #SFSFF2025

NESFM is co-presenting this screening of....

TRAILIN’

Dir. by Alfred Santell; 1921; With Tom Mix

Accompaniment by Utsav Lal

For tickets: www.silentfilm.org

#SilentFilm #TomMix
3:00PM

PRESENTATION: SHE’S ALIVE – THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN AT 90

and...

FILM: THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

(1935, Universal) Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Sunday, October 19th

MONSTER MEDLEY DOUBLE FEATURE

1:00PM : FILM: JACK PIERCE, MAKER OF MONSTERS

(2015, November Fire, D)

Legendary makeup man of Universal Studios, Jack Pierce had an amazing ability to create make-ups that have stood the test of time.
Saturday, October 18th, 7:30pm
Spooooooky Comedy Shorts Night
Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment

THE IDLE CLASS (1921) Charlie Chaplin
THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1921, 35mm) Buster Keaton
HAUNTED SPOOKS (1921) Harold Lloyd
DO DETECTIVES THINK? (1927) Laurel & Hardy
Featuring Jack Nicholson in an early role and directed by the legendary Roger Corman.
Friday, October 17th, 7:30pm

Odyssey Film Institute Presents:

THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) A clumsy young man working in a flower shop discovers that the strange plant he’s been nurturing has an appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Sunday, October 12th, 3:00pm
Laurel & Hardy / Our Gang Talkie Matinee

HIDE & SHRIEK (1938) Our Gang

OLIVER THE EIGHTH (1933) Laurel & Hardy

PUBLIC GHOST #1 (1935) Charley Chase

THE LIVE GHOST (1934) Laurel & Hardy

#LaurelAndHardy #OurGang #CharleyChase
Preceded by shorts:

FRANKENSTEIN (1910, Edison D) Charles Ogle

KOKO’S HAUNTED HOUSE
(1928, Inkwell Studios) Koko the Clown
Saturday October 11th, 7:30pm

Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment

NOSFERATU (1922, Prana Film, 35mm) Count Orlock (Max Schreck) engages an estate agent to help him with a transaction. F.W. Murnau’s astonishing masterpiece based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a visual feast and an absolute must see!
Friday, October 10th, 7:30pm

Odyssey Film Institute Presents:

WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

Starring Bela Lugosi!
The Stanford Theater in Palo Alto is running a program of westerns, including John Ford's silent epic "The Iron Horse", playing this Sunday.

stanfordtheatre.org/calendars/We...

More silents (not necessary westerns) off in November.

"Greed" with Wurlitzer Organ accompaniment on Nov 23rd!!!
Preceded by shorts:

THE SCARECROW (1920, 35mm, Joseph M. Schenck Productions)

THE “HIGH SIGN” (1921, Joseph M. Schenck Productions)
Saturday October 4th, 7:30pm

Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment

Happy 130th Birthday Buster!

STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (1928, 35mm) The son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
Friday, October 3rd, 7:30pm

Odyssey Film Institute Presents:

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)

A small-town doctor (Kevin McCarthy) learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Directed by Don Siegel (Dirty Harry)
There's a personal connection here: Diana Serra Cary, known as Baby Peggy, lived to the age of 102 and was a friend of our museum.
And I have a (tenuous) family connection to Hobart Bosworth.
Preceded by shorts:

MABEL’S BLUNDER (1914, Keystone)
Mabel Normand

VACATION WAVES (1928, Paramount)
Edward Everett Horton
Saturday, September 27th, 7:30pm
Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment

CAPTAIN JANUARY (1924) A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.
Saturday, September 27th, 3:00pm
Comedy Shorts Afternoon

Watch as student projectionists hone their craft in this FREE afternoon show!

What films will they show us? You’ll have to be there to find out. Come for one, stay for all.
Preceded by shorts:
BETWEEN SHOWERS (1914, Keystone) Charlie Chaplin
SHE SAID NO (1928, Weiss Brothers) Ben Turpin
Saturday, September 20th, 7:30pm at our Edison Theater

Jon Mirsalis, Kurzweil Keyboard Accompaniment

CITY GIRL (1930) A Chicago waitress (Mary Duncan) falls in love with a Minnesota farmer (Charles Farrell), and decides to face a life in the country.
Directed by F.W. Murnau

#silentfilm
Sunday, September 14th, 3:00pm

Laurel & Hardy / Our Gang Talkie Matinee

MIKE FRIGHT (1934) Our Gang
BACON GRABBERS (1929) Laurel & Hardy
FRAMING YOUTH (1937) Our Gang
HOG WILD (1930) Laurel & Hardy