Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum

User Reviews of Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum

Yelp.com Review - by Sherry B.

5.0 of 5 stars. What a fun place this was. Enjoyed a silent film from sometime in the 1920's and laughed the whole time. There were a few vaudeville actors on the side mimicking the movie. A great date place.
yelp.com - user review - 10/10/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by deb n.

4.0 of 5 stars. What a delightful little place, men dressed as Charlie Chaplain greeting people outside, then a keystone cop in charge of the shop, museum and theater in the back. Free silent movies in the back,...
yelp.com - user review - 09/12/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by anne t.

5.0 of 5 stars. I took my mom and dad and my kids here this past Saturday and we had an absolute BLAST, I tell ya.As I lost myself in the music, I imagined how it must have been in the early 1900's when movies first...
yelp.com - user review - 08/28/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Miz Rinky A.

5.0 of 5 stars. Yes, I am obsessed with this place. We went last Saturday and saw 4 comedy shorts with Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Billy Bevan,All very clever and side splitting funny! There's...
yelp.com - user review - 08/16/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by gerald p.

5.0 of 5 stars. if you are on the quest for hidden californian gems, you will certainly find one just a few miles north of fremont. the niles essanay silent film museum is probably the most unassuming...
yelp.com - user review - 05/19/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by bette p.

5.0 of 5 stars. Nice local museum where you can see what films used to be before the blockbuster syndrome. Call ahead to see what's up.
yelp.com - user review - 04/07/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Bonnie W.

5.0 of 5 stars. Worth the trek to Fremont to attend a film here. Very kind, friendly staff and a great selection of films. It's a great place to spend a Saturday night. And the price is right!
yelp.com - user review - 04/06/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Alan D.

5.0 of 5 stars. OK, I saw Underworld ( 1927 ) here over a year ago, but it was a great silent gangster drama, so now that I have an account wanted to write it up. Judy Rosenberg played the score live on the fly...
yelp.com - user review - 04/05/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Bobby B.

4.0 of 5 stars. As part of my Niles Canyon Railway Tour I decided to check out the silent film museum, with little knowledge of this place I had no expectations going in. I must say I was left this place surprised,...
yelp.com - user review - 02/17/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Jenn N.

5.0 of 5 stars. If you're any kind of film enthusiast you must hit this place for their Saturday night silent movie fest. There's live piano accompaniment and it's only $5 for 2 hours of movies. The films are in...
yelp.com - user review - 09/28/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Dan Y.

5.0 of 5 stars. When I was a freshman in high school (without mentioning the exact date, let's just say Nixon was President), I went into SF one Saturday afternoon and picked up my first movie projector. It was an...
yelp.com - user review - 12/03/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Paul T.

4.0 of 5 stars. I'm feeling bad about ruining the "perfect 5" of the previous reviews. But I guess I'm jaded by other offerings at classical movie theaters and museums. The museum is located in a Nickelodeon theater...
yelp.com - user review - 11/08/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Ann L.

5.0 of 5 stars. This little museum deserves some attention and it's FREE to visit. It was featured in VIA magazine as one of the reader's favorite exceptional small-town museums. Back in the olden days Charlie...
yelp.com - user review - 09/15/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Yelper Y.

5.0 of 5 stars. Fremont had a movie studio? Chaplin lived in the area? Who knew? I guess Fremont is cooler than I thought. I attended the Charlie Chaplin festival (1st weekend in June) & it was great. The museum...
yelp.com - user review - 06/03/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Brian D.

5.0 of 5 stars. This place is so cool. The museum is worth browsing through, and the tour is great.They are selling "slats" where you can sponsor the restoration of the theater and get your name on a little piece of...
yelp.com - user review - 04/28/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Willis W.

5.0 of 5 stars. We went to the saturday night showing of silent films, and it was a real kick in the pants. When we first got to the museum at 6:30pm, the doors were closed for the 7:30 show, so we went down the...
yelp.com - user review - 03/26/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Ryan S.

5.0 of 5 stars. It's not just a museum, but a theater too.If you are a Fremont native you probably know that a number of silent films, some staring Charlie Chapin, were filmed in Niles Canyon.They play silent movies...
yelp.com - user review - 01/10/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Valerie F.

5.0 of 5 stars. In the site of the old Edison Theater this area used to be call "Hollywoodland North" back in the 20-40's then unfortunately the silent films when Niles became something of a ghost-town then got...
yelp.com - user review - 07/29/2006
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