Broncho Billy & The Classic Cowboy Silent Films Of Niles CA
Historic look at the early days of film that begins with scenes from the Edison Picture The Great Train Robbery and then moves on to peep show kinetoscope reels and tells the story of a vaudeville bit player who rose to acclaim and became one of America's first movie stars. This 1964 KPIX TV documentary film explores the early film career of Bronco Billy Anderson ( originally vaudeville actor Gilbert Max Aronson 1880-1971) and his role at the Essanay Film Company in Niles California. See footage of the small Bay Area town near Fremont, that prior to the emergence of Hollywood, was a leading location for westerns, comedies and other film feature productions between 1912-1916. Documentary includes extensive scenes of silent films produced at the studio (including early Charlie Chaplin features), recollections of the hard drinking casts & crews on the studio lot in Niles, and reflections on Anderson's contribution to the western movie genre. It ends with a view of him at the Shrine Auditorium, accepting an honorary Oscar for his pioneering film work in 1958. This film includes interviews with Bronco Billy and was narrated by Don Brice, Gilbert M. Anderson and Bill Cato and written and produced by Ray Hubbard and later converted in 2011 to digital media by Alex Cherian for the San Francisco State University's Bay Area Television Archive DIVA project .
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1. Niles Farmers’ Market -
2. Museum of Local History -
3. Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge -
4. Shinn Historic Park and Arboretum -
5. Aqua Adventure Waterpark -
6. Olive Hyde Art Gallery -
7. Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum -
8. Higuera Adobe -
9. Central Park and Lake Elizabeth -
10. Vallejo Adobe -
11. California Nursery Historic Park -
12. Leland Stanford Winery Historical Landmark -
13. Quarry Lakes Regional Park -
14. Coyote Hills Regional Park and Alameda Creek Trail -
15. Mission San Jose and Cemetery -
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The Best Of If This Asphalt Could Talk At Niles 1/15/17
Info@nilesfilmmuseum.org. It's back for another showing of the best of the Asphalt series with vintage Fremont Dragstrip racing footage and interviews, January 15 4:00 on the Edison Theater screen at the Niles Silent Film Museum, 37417 Niles Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536. Limited seating, so if you can, buy tickets in advance.
A Trip Down Market Street
The four Miles brothers, Harry, Herbert, Joseph, and Earle C, were pioneers in American cinema. In 1902, they established one of the first motion picture exchanges in the United States.
Their 1906 film, A Trip Down Market Street, is an historic 13-minute journey down Market Street in San Francisco from 8th Street to the Embarcadero, giving a rare view of the street before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The film was long thought to have been made in September 1905, after being dated as such by the Library of Congress based on the state of construction of several buildings.
However, in 2009 and 2010, film historian David Kiehn, a co-founder of Niles Film Museum in Niles, California, a museum devoted to Essanay Studios, dated the film to the spring of 1906 from automobile registrations and weather records. Kiehn and eventually found promotional materials from the film's original release. The film was sent to New York City by train the night before the earthquake, which destroyed the Miles Brothers' studio where it had been kept. Three prints survive as of 2010, and it has been digitally restored.
(Video courtesy of the Prelinger Archives/Tehrkot Media)
Episode 215
The Genealogy Gems Podcast
Episode #215 with Lisa Louise Cooke
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In this “Blast from the Past” episode, Lisa gives voice to the era of silent films, in a unique approach to understanding her great-grandmother’s life. Her passion for this mostly-forgotten film genre comes through in her conversation with film archivist Sam Gill of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, California.
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A listener writes in after discovering a birth mom’s story in passport records (see what lengths he goes to in order to access the records!).
Just after RootsTech 2018, Your DNA Guide Diahan Southard reports on the latest DNA news you’ll want to know.
NEWS: ROOTSTECH 2018 DNA NEWS ROUNDUP FROM YOUR DNA GUIDE DIAHAN SOUTHARD
First up was MyHeritage, showing their support for the 7 million adopted individuals in the United States with their new DNA Quest campaign. MyHeritage will provide 15,000 DNA test kits to eligible participants free of charge, in order to help these adoptees use DNA to reunite them with their biological families. With this initiative they “hope to make this project a shining light for corporate philanthropy and an example to be followed by other commercial companies in their own lines of expertise to make the world a better place.” MyHeritage has assembled an advisory board of genetic genealogists and genetic counselors to help drive this project and ensure it meets the needs of the community. If you or someone you know is interested in participating, you can head on over to the DNA Quest website (dnaquest.com) to fill out an application. But you better hurry, the application deadline is April 30, 2018.
Next, addressing the biggest problem in genetic genealogy, namely the looming What Next? question facing millions of newly swabbed participants, MyHeritage announced the Big Tree – a giant network of genetic and genealogy results that will automate much of the match comparison and tree searching to replace your head-scratching with light-bulb moments. They have already made significant headway on this project, as reported in the journal Science, which MyHeritage’s own chief scientific officer Yaniv Erlich collaborated on. The journal reports that the team of scientists successfully extracted public family trees from Geni.com (a MyHeritage daughter company), and then used a computer program to clean up and link the trees together. It sounds like MyHeritage will be adding genetic data to this kind of tree data in their Big Tree project.
MyHeritage isn’t the only company out to improve the DNA matching experience. UK based LivingDNA announced that they plan to add DNA matching to their popular origins test by third quarter 2018. When they launched in October of 2016, LivingDNA was not offering cousin matching, but opted instead to focus all of their resources on providing very detailed origins reports, including breaking down the UK in to 46 categories. In the months since their launch, they have been working on a genetic matching system, called Family Networks, that will appeal to a wide range of users and will “reduce the risk of human error and take away the tedious task of figuring out how each person on a user’s list are related to one another.” They are promising an experience that provides “a level of relationship prediction and specificity beyond anything currently on the market.”
So it sounds like if you are currently struggling with turning your DNA matches into genealogical discoveries, our testing companies want you to know you are not alone, and they are working hard to provide solutions to these problems. Time will only tell if they can succeed.
Diahan also provides answers to questions asked about this blog post announcing updates to MyHeritage DNA matching technology and its new chromosome browser.
MAILBOX: TOM’S PASSPORT SEARCH SUCCESS
Kathleen Head’s passport applications
U.S. passport applications on Ancestry and FamilySearch through 1925
National Archives article on passport applications
U.S. State Department passport application (since 1925) copy requests
Frequently asked Questions about the Freedom of Information Act
BONUS CONTENT for Genealogy Gems App Users
If you’re listening through the Genealogy Gems app, your bonus content for this episode is a marvelous soundtrack of silent film music, played live (you’ll hear audience laughter occasionally in the background) and supplied by Sam Gill at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. The Genealogy Gems app is FREE in Google Play and is only $2.99 for Windows, iPhone and iPad users.
Lisa Louise Cooke uses and recommends RootsMagic family history software. From within RootsMagic, you can search historical records on FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com.
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INTERLUDE - Synch #5
INTERLUDE (music): Original solo piano improvisation performed live by Jeannie Novak at Bakery Sound + Vision (North Hollywood, CA) and engineered by Stacy Carson. This is an improv based on a short film theme I composed called Real. This piece seemed to work well with the nostalgia and innocence associated with a time where horses-and-riders, wagons, horse-drawn carriages, cable cars, motorcars, and daring pedestrians shared a busy thoroughfare -- Market Street in San Francisco before the fire of 1906. The music constantly builds, which also fits with the journey down this long street to its final destination (Embarcadero).
A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET BEFORE THE FIRE - 1906 - Miles Brothers (footage):
This film pictures Market Street as seen from the front window of a moving cable car before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first structural film because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride. Since the piece I chose was shorter than the original film (13 minutes), this version of the film begins as a sightseeing car passes through the frame. Highlights include: various young men and boys running back and forth--looking back at the camera; a lone, proper woman stepping into a cable car; wagons and speeding cars practically cutting off the cable car; a boy riding in the back of a small carriage/wagon peeking out from behind a tarp; a bearded man (who could have fit right in as a member of ZZ Top) standing at the San Francisco Ferry Building entrance (Embarcadero) with his beard blowing in the wind; and finally, seeing the camera turn to look at where it's been at the end -- as kids excitedly jump and wave.
The four Miles brothers (Harry, Herbert, Joseph, and Earle C) were pioneers in American cinema. In 1902, they established one of the first motion picture exchanges in the United States. This film provides a rare view of the street before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It was long thought to have been made in September 1905, after being dated as such by the Library of Congress based on the state of construction of several buildings. However, in 2009 and 2010, film historian David Kiehn, a co-founder of Niles Film Museum in Niles, California, a museum devoted to Essanay Studios, dated the film to the spring of 1906 from automobile registrations and weather records. Kiehn and eventually found promotional materials from the film's original release. The film was sent to New York City by train the night before the earthquake, which destroyed the Miles Brothers' studio where it had been kept.
Original footage available at Prelinger Archives:
SYNCH (project): Collection of nine solo piano improvisations synched to public domain footage. Although the music was recorded long before I curated the footage, both now seem to be inseparable :)
Music composed and performed by Jeannie Novak.
℗ © 2014 Jeannie Novak