"The picture is one of the best ever shown in Memphis, barring none," raved a movie reviewer credited as "A.M.D." in the Feb. 2, 1926, edition of The Commercial ...

TUCSON, Ariz — The Fox Theater is working on a modern expansion but this weekend you can step back to watch a movie the way they did when movie palaces like the Fox were the home of silent films.

You can hear the lush music from the Wurlitzer theater pipe organ before you ever lay eyes upon it. Once you do encounter the magnificent console hidden inside the Immanuel Organ Gym off Pikes Peak ...

On a recent Sunday night in West Seattle, people gathered to hear the sound of an era long gone. Accompanying a screening of the 1924 silent movie “Peter Pan” at Kenyon Hall, musician Dennis James ...

Silent Films Night at the Venango Museum in Oil City features the same Wurlitzer organ used at the old Latonia Theater in the ...

OLD SCHOOL: Robert Israel will play Barnum Hall's restored Wurlitzer organ during a pair of Buster Keaton silent films on Saturday. (Photo courtesy Santa Monica High School) SAMOHI — The revving of an ...

Grammy-winning Memphis music producer and engineer Matt Ross-Spang has worked with such artists as John Prine, Al Green and the Drive-By Truckers. But capturing the building-sized sound of the almost ...

The original 1924 Wurlitzer organ at Hotel 24 South in Staunton. Twenty years ago, the hotel (then the Stonewall Jackson Hotel) reopened and the organ was first played for the public in over 55 years.

The Oriental Theatre's newly-restored 1925 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. When the Oriental Theatre reopened its doors in 2018, the movie palace was nearly just as it was a century ago, when such opulent ...

SEATTLE — It happens four times a year. A glorious time machine is taken out of storage and put on a lift. Covered by canvas, powered by hydraulics, the lift raises it up until it is almost level with ...