Post AkKJs03anELqr5ElZA by Essanay@sfba.social
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 (DIR) Post #AkKJs03anELqr5ElZA by Essanay@sfba.social
       2024-07-26T13:53:49Z
       
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       It starts today! FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 26-28BRONCHO BILLY SILENT FILM FESTIVALWomen in Film - Garbo - Essanay Studio Films - Billy Bevan - Lenticulars - Focus on Film Collectors - Oddities - DocumentariesThree days of films, talks, and fun named in honor of the man who brought the movies to Niles:G.M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson!Our festival page is now ready for it’s close up!  https://nilesfilmmuseum.org/?tv=6447778404499456
       
 (DIR) Post #AkKJs1GOJ8BQb4EV9c by gmcgath@liberdon.com
       2024-07-26T15:36:14Z
       
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       @Essanay "Broncho Billy" makes me think of a coughing cowboy. :)
       
 (DIR) Post #AkiH8OfDR7s9jj05Uu by Essanay@sfba.social
       2024-08-07T04:58:38Z
       
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       @gmcgath Yeah, hard not to have that association.  The pizza place down the street updating the spelling (Bronco Billy's Pizza Palace--highly recommended.  Amazing Crust!  We go there after shows quite often) but being a museum and not a pizza joint, we feel like we should stick with the authentic historical spelling that the man himself used.Google's "ngram viewer" shows that "broncho buster" was somewhat more popular than "bronco buster" in the early 20th ct, but the h-less spelling took over rapidly between 1940-1950 approximately.  https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bronco+buster%2Cbroncho+buster&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3