By Barbara Wingo The year 2023 marked the opening of Phase 1 of the Norman Studios Silent Film Museum in the newly renovated first floor of the Norman Studios production building. Our opening exhibition Regeneration: 1923-2023 simultaneously celebrated the regeneration of Norman Studios represented by our new museum space and … [Read more…]
The Jacksonville City Council recently voted unanimously to honor longtime preservationist and Norman Studios Silent Film Museum co-founder Rita Reagan by naming Norman’s set stage building the “Rita F. Reagan Building”. The building is the last of the five original structures in the Norman Studios complex, built during its days as Eagle Film City prior … [Read more…]
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden this week 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 represents one of the most diverse collections … [Read more…]
On this Giving Tuesday, a Global Day of Giving, we’re asking you to help support the Norman Studios Silent Film Museum Inc. and its mission to educate the public on the significance of race films and the contribution of silent films to the development of “moving pictures” which are so vital to modern society. NSSFM is continuing … [Read more…]
Take a virtual tour of Jacksonville’s historic silent film studio complex with Norman Studios Vice President Barbara Wingo…
Barbara Wingo, Vice President and Curator, Norman Studios Silent Film Museum, Inc. The work on our museum has begun! As our fans, friends and members know, the City of Jacksonville appropriated $1 million to the Parks Department to begin the process of making the production building (the main building) ready for a museum. Norman Studios Silent … [Read more…]
Each year, on a single day, Americans donate millions of dollars to worthy causes nationwide. Created in 2012, GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world on December 3, 2019 and every day. This Giving Tuesday, we offer three reasons to consider donating to … [Read more…]
In March, Steve Arrington, retired JTA engineer, called to arrange a tour for one of his groups, the National Railroad Historical Society. He thought the members who help care for the locomotive on display at the Convention Center in Jacksonville, would enjoy seeing the 1916 machines that produced power for the silent film complex on … [Read more…]
Beginning on Monday, September 16, the Norman Studios is proud to present an exhibit at the Jacksonville Public Library. The exhibit features the history of silent films in Jacksonville as well as of Richard Norman and his studios complex. In addition to various of the items previously shown at the Norman Studios exhibit at the … [Read more…]
By Barbara Wingo Mostly Lost, sponsored by the Library of Congress at its Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia, is a meeting in which the audience actively assists in identifying unidentified and “under-identified” films and film fragments, primarily from the silent era. In addition, presentations on various aspects of early filmmaking are … [Read more…]