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For Cecil B. DeMille there was no such thing as a regular feature film...it always had to be a spectacle.  Circus films were a dime a dozen in the 1930s, but none of them really captured that thrill of seeing a circus in person. A circus was meant to be a spectacle, and the circus itself had t read more

"At sea one day you'll smell land where there'll be no land, and on that day Ahab will go to his grave, but he'll rise again within the hour. He will rise and beckon. Then all - all save one - shall follow. " Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ), a young sailor, hears these prophetic words from a stranger read more

Step into our tent and gaze into the crystal ball.....what you see before you will be the past that has never been. Fantastic film plots gathered from imagineers across America will magically take form in the eyes of your mind as you read their reviews of amazing movies that were never made.  read more

If you ever wondered where the splendid colors of Spring come from after a black-and-white Winter, wonder no more.... Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1936 Happy Harmonies cartoon To Spring demonstrates the entire process in full detail. For those who took the time to research the science behind the Winter-to- read more

"Aye, I know wha' tis said. He locked the gate and buried the key, and nary's been in there since." A secret garden. Locked up for years. Now overgrowing with weeds and bramble for want of anyone to tend to it. When the young orphan Mary Lennox first discovers this enchanted place at the estate of read more

"Everybody pile into the bus now! If we take any more lunch breaks like we have, we will still be on this bus in twenty years time. Once again, we'll be taking a slight detour to see an exceptionally beautiful home....the estate of that star of the silent era, Norma Talmadge. Fasten your seat belts read more

Steve Weldon is pictured in this 1979 The Mike Douglas Show press photo doing what he does best...eating pasta. And mama mia! how he slurpped it up! It's no wonder he was addicted to TUMS. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures colle read more

"Draw up to the fire and gaze into the embers as I tell you a hearty tale that will boil your blood..." Old Nancy the witch knew how to tell a good ghost yarn. At over 107 years old ( and aging fast ) she certainly had plenty of years to practice her art of story-telling. Each week, for seven years read more

“ When stars are bright on a frosty night, Beware thy bane on a rocky lane ” Coastal England at the turn of the century…. High atop a cliff stands the Hammond estate, the ancestral home of the Hammond family. Legend has it that the family is cursed to falling prey to a flesh-eating read more

You just knew we were going to post an eerie screenshot for October! Now it's time to put on your thinking cap and try to remember what film you saw this scene in. He's a grave looking man holding a lantern so some other men can see what work they are doing.....dirty work it be, but someone has to d read more

Hollywood in the early 1930s was a bustling vibrant work environment filled with aspiring screenwriters and directors, ambitious young actors, and seasoned professionals from various fields, all riding on a glorious wave of excitement over the fame and fortune to be found within the land of make-bel read more

Speakeasy and Silver Screenings are hosting the What I Learned from the Movies blogathon, a grand event that gives us film fans a chance to gush about why movies are more to us than simple escapist fare. For my sister and me, classic films have taught us so much that, frankly, it would be easie read more

He puffed meditatively at his briar pipe. C. Aubrey Smith, like most Britishers, smokes a briar. He has his own pet mixture, compounded after the English trick to blending tobacco that Hollywood has never quite mastered. To hear him lecture on it is like reading a chapter of “My Lady Nicotine. read more

Effervescent silent screen actress Colleen Moore, star of Flaming Youth ( 1923 ) and The Perfect Flapper ( 1924 ), had a lifelong love for dollhouses and miniatures which led her to create the "Fairy Castle".  Based on a design by her father and painstakingly built by more than one hundred tal read more

In this original CBS press photo from the Los Angeles Examiner archives, Sir Cedric Hardwicke is pictured with Joan Tetzel in a scene from an episode of Climax! entitled "Strange Death at Burnleigh" ( 1957 ). The caption reads :  "Sir Cedric Hardwicke portrays Dr. Martin Crandall, who is accus read more

Abracadabra, ala kazam!  Look into my crystal ball....watch closely as beloved films of the golden age suddenly change before your very eyes, and sparkling new imaginary films rise before you. Poof!! With a wave of Madame Lasagna's hand and a generous sprinkling of pixie dust tossed into your f read more

Marc Davis was a veteran animator and storyteller whose career at the Walt Disney Studios spanned over 45 years. He is probably one of the most famous of the "Imagineers" at the studio and justly so, because he contributed greatly to Disney’s animation classics as well as to many of Disneyland read more

In January 1977, the BBC aired the first episode of an engrossing seven-part children's miniseries entitled Children of the Stones. This program, destined to become one of the most highly regarded British television series ever made, gave its audience gigantic goose-pimples, and inspired decade-last read more

Whoa! That first seat is a doozy. This man evidently did not enjoy having his bottom hit bottom. But audiences enjoyed seeing him go down......now the question is, who is he, and what film is this from? As usual, if you saw the movie you'll know the scene, otherwise....good luck guessing! read more

This featured photo from the archives depicts that real-life cowboy Joel McCrea with his wife Frances Dee bedecked in rancher's apparel. McCrea and Dee were both box-office drawing actors when they met on the set of The Silver Cord ( 1933 ). The McCreas owned a 3,000 acre spread in Thousand Oaks, Ca read more