Upcoming Events

* Saturday, December 12 @ 7:30pm

The Night Before Christmas (1905)

Santa prepares his sleigh while children await Christmas morning. Charming early trick photography. (9 minutes)

The Blue Bird (1918)

On Christmas Eve, two children undertake a magical quest for the Blue Bird of Happiness. They discover that happiness may have been close to home all along. (75 minutes)

* Friday, November 6 @ 7:30pm

Besant Lodge, Hollywood, CA

Flying Elephants (1927)

Before Fred and Wilma Flintstone, there were Laurel & Hardy!

In Flying Elephants (1928), Stan and Ollie head all the way back to the Stone Age, where romance, rivalry, and prehistoric foolishness are apparently nothing new. It’s Laurel & Hardy as cavemen — with clubs, bearskins, and several million years of bad ideas. (17 minutes)

The Lost World (1925)

Dinosaurs! Daring explorers! A world forgotten by time!

Before King Kong and Jurassic Park, there was The Lost World — the spectacular adventure that astonished audiences with dinosaurs brought to life through groundbreaking stop-motion animation. Join an intrepid band of explorers as they journey to a mysterious plateau where prehistoric creatures still roam — and things don't go according to plan. Nott! (80 minutes)

Free.

* Saturday, October 24 @ 12 noon

The Grand Ballroom at the Mission Inn, Riverside CA

Frankenstein (1910)

This is the earliest film version of the famous Mary Shelly story, produced by Thomas Edison's own film studio. Believed lost for over 40 years, this pioneering short resurfaced from a private collection, offering our first glimpse of the Monster on the silver screen. (12 minutes)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

This film gave John Barrymore one of the defining roles of his career: transforming from Jekyll into Hyde using nothing but his face, posture, and sheer physical control — no makeup change, no cut, no special effects of any kind, all in one single unbroken shot. It remains one of silent cinema's great acting feats: a monster conjured with nothing but raw skill. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's famous tale, the film explores the terrifying possibility that good and evil aren't opposing forces battling for the human soul, but two faces of the same person — and what happens when we give our darkest impulses permission to run free. (70 minutes)

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