The WEJB/NSU Theater, 1902-1981:
Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902);
The Great Train Robbery (1903);
C.B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914);
D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915);
D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1916);
Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms (1918);
Starring “Jack”: See the 1920 Silent Picture Classic of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde;Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920);
Buster Keaton’s One Week (1920);
D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920);
F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1921);
The Kid (1921), Charlie Chaplin’s First Feature as Director;
Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s First Pictures Featuring the Evil Genius, Dr. Mabuse: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, Teil I (Dr. Mabuse, the Player, Part I); and
Dr. Mabuse, Teil II: Inferno (Dr. Mabuse, Inferno, Part II, both 1922, released one month apart) with English subtitles;
James Cruze’s The Covered Wagon (1923);
John Ford’s The Iron Horse (1924);
Charlie, in The Gold Rush (1925);
Lon Chaney, in The Phantom of the Opera (1925);
King Vidor, Laurence Stallings, and Harry Behn’s The Big Parade (1925), Starring Gilbert and Adore!
Buster Keaton’s The General (1926);
John Ford’s 1926 Western, 3 Bad Men;
When a Man Loves (1927), Starring “Jack” and Dolores Costello;
Josef von Sternberg and Ben Hecht’s Underworld (1927), the First American Gangster Picture;
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (1927);
“Wild Bill” Wellman’s Restored, Classic Silent Picture, Wings (1927), One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners;
F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners);
Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s Dystopian Science Fiction Epic, Metropolis (1927), the Greatest S/F Picture Ever, Plus Its Soundtrack Suite;
Frank Borzage and Austin Strong’s Seventh Heaven (1927);
Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, Jack Jarmuth and Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer (1927), the First-Ever Talkie, Starring Al Jolson, by Warner Brothers;
St. Louis Blues (talkie, short, 1929);
Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou’s First Talkie: M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (M: A City Searches for a Murderer);
Paul Robeson in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones (talkie, 1933);
The Man Who Knew too Much (1934): The Original Version of the Early Hitchcock Classic
Kate Hepburn in the Super Chief’s Quality Street (1937);
Cary Grant and Roz Russell in Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, and Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940);
Zero’s Since You Went Away (1944);
William Dieterle’s A Portrait of Jennie (1948);
Jules Dassin, Albert Malz, and Malvin Wald’s The Naked City (1948), Plus Music; and
Paul Newman, in Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981).
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