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Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum

Fremont, United States of America

Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum

The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum is located in what is now the Niles district in the city of Fremont, California. The museum is housed in the Edison Theater building, a century-old Nickelodeon movie theater, just half a block from the former site of the Niles Essanay Studios where Broncho Billy

and Charlie Chaplin made films in the 1910s. It is dedicated to preserving and showing silent films and their history. The museum houses a large collection of Motion Picture equipment and related artifacts, as well as about 10,000 Silent Films in their archive.

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