If you walked past Joe Rinaudo’s house in La Crescenta-Montrose, you probably wouldn’t think anything extraordinary of it. You wouldn’t expect, for example, that it contains a 20-seat silent movie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Rinaudo, the foremost expert on photoplayers, sits next to his photoplayer in his living room. If you walked past Joe ...

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 ...

Anoka player piano restorer shows silent films accompanied by 108-year-old photoplayer Nate Otto shows silent films accompanied by a rare, vintage instrument that combines piano, pipe organ and ...

Dr. Marvin Faulwell’s Allen GW4 theater organ looms large in his Lee's Summit living room, where he's created a score for the silent film "Peter Pan." Faulwell will perform it Sunday at the Kansas ...

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