This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Silent Film Collector Patterson Preserves Historic Reels
Patterson, stage manager at Municipal Auditorium Coliseum, curates a silent film collection dating from 1903 to 1929. The archive features Keystone Cops, Mack Sennett titles, Ben Turpin, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Mickey Rooney’s Mickeys Pals, The Birth of a Nation in original 1915 form, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Perils of Pauline, and Lon Chaney era makeups. Patterson also holds rare full three hour version of Birth of a Nation and notes later sound versions altered the film.
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Lene Saer
Patterson
Municipal Auditorium
Columbus
Ohio
Ben Turpin
Stan Laurel
Olver Hardy
Mickey's Pals
Mickey Rooney
Draw Egan
Wiliam OS. Hart
Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
John Barrymore
Notre Dame
Lon Chaney
Myra Setliff
al J
Pauline
Amos Aspalanche-Journal
Andy
Castile
Lubbock
Sam Pat Patterson
Johnnyl
Triangle Film Co
St. Patl
Pat
Terson
Disney Pictures