Jacksonville, Florida
Today, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the annual selection of 25 films into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Films are selected based on their cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance, and must be at least 10 years old. The 2021 National Film Registry Read More …
Jacksonville was named for General Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of Florida who, incidentally, never visited Jacksonville. Duval Street, like the county, was named for William Pope Duval, the first Territorial Governor of Florida. Isiah Hart, who founded Jacksonville, named two of the city’s Read More …
“The Flying Ace” Screening Sunday, February 4th at 7:30 PM Presented in celebration of Black History Month by Jacksonville University’s College of Fine Arts The Flying Ace (1926), an African American silent film made by Richard Norman at Arlington’s Norman Studios. The film features an all Read More …
“This building means more to me than most any other in Jacksonville – Norman Studios, the first in our town and one of the first anywhere to produce all African American-cast films over a century ago. I and a small team of dedicated board members Read More …
Romance and war prove equally tough battlefields in the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture winner starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers and Richard Arlen. The Norman Studios Silent Film Museum, University of North Florida Military and Veterans Resource Center and Standfast Asset Management will screen the 1927 silent film, Wings at Read More …
The Norman Studios Silent Film Museum and the Hotel Indigo, Jacksonville will screen Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the next Silent Sundays event on Sunday, October 22, 4pm at the Hotel Indigo 9840 Tapestry Park Circle,Jacksonville, FL 904-996-7199. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Read More …
Norman Studios, the historic movie studio in Arlington, is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Next week it may be listed as a National Landmark. Becoming a National Landmark will help the studio to be preserved for future generations. The studio was originally Read More …
Watch a short clip from “Hollywood East,” a documentary produced by the Jacksonville Film Institute about “Florida’s Silent Film Legacy.” Available for purchase through Norman Studios, the documentary tells the story of how Jacksonville became the winter hub of the “burgeoning motion picture industry” in Read More …
What a great find by Stephen Dare, Publisher and Editor of Metro Jacksonville. “This film was produced 100 years ago by the local Norman Studios and distributed by a newsreel company based in Jacksonville. It shows a lot of the Hogans Creek Park, and some Read More …