PAST EVENTS
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Vintage Halloween show - Burbank Historical Society
A review from their newsletter:

"GHOST & GOBLINS

What a fantastic program for Halloween.  We had over 100 people in attendance along with ghouls and ghosts as you can see from the photos.  The Cunningham Room was transformed into the Ghoul Time theatre where you were entertained by vintage silent horror films along with the original music of the time.  Our own Mari Pattito, Craig Bullock, and Carey Briggs decorated to the hilt.  We had so many requests for Galen to return next year, we might just have to ask him back.  Please enjoy the photos." 
(Photos below are Galen's, not from the article)




THE MOVIES BEFORE HOLLYWOOD - Little Landers Historical Society

Movies from 1894 to 1910 and their fascinating history.  The hall was standing room only, spilling into adjacent rooms and the entry.



BEFORE THE MUSIC VIDEO - Los Feliz Public Library

The history of "talking pictures" and musical shorts is traced from the Kinetophone in 1895 to Soundies of the 1940s.



FROM VAUDEVILLE TO THE NICKELODEON - Hollywood Heritage Museum

The history of one of the most popular - and now forgotten - aspects of early cinema, the Illustrated Song.



THE MOVIES BEFORE HOLLYWOOD - Pasadena Museum of History

A program on cinema-going at the turn of the century.  D. W. Griffith's When Kings Were The Law (1912) was presented, on the actual site were it was shot.



BEFORE THE MUSIC VIDEO - Mayme Clayton Museum

Another version of this popular program showing the history of musical shorts from song slides to early talkies.  The room filled up and people sat out in the hall.



FROM VAUDEVILLE TO THE NICKELODEON - Mark Taper Theater

Leading film historians attended this show, where Galen gave the unknown history of song slides, from vaudeville to early cinema.



The Gamble House Centennial - Pasadena




Children's program - Pasadena Museum of History

Teaching youngsters about the early history of recorded sound. 



FENYES MANSION - Christmas show



VAUDEVILLE NIGHT - Alex Theater



EARLY RECORDED SOUND - UCLA


TURNER CLASSIC MOVIE FESTIVAL, NICKELODEON SHOW, HOLLYWOOD


 
FLICKERS FROM THE SILVER SCREAM - Halloween Show

Los Angeles in the Ragtime Era - Sutter Creek

Syncopating Celluloid - Sacramento

Ragtime as living history.

The Magic Lantern (19th century home projection)