For more than three decades, movie lovers have come to this former mining town almost 9, 000 feet up in the Rockies for refresher courses in where the medium has been (neglected or downright unknown classics from the silent and sound eras alike) as well as where it's at.

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The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria is housed in a building that was part of a 1920s film studio that made silent and early sound films.

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It features more than 1, 400 images from horror, sci-fi, comedy, silent, sound, and black-and-white monster movies that run a gamut of categorization: Vampires, Werewolves, Atomic Mutations, Human Monsters, and Scary Older Ladies.

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George Valentin is a famous silent film star, but with the advent of sound and talkies, his career begins to fade.

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That's the magic of photography, whereby a still and silent image can evoke far more than any moving pictures with sound ever will.

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It was quiet now, no talk, no sound, only the silent continuum of snow at the window and I wanted to make her see how beautiful it was, if not always, then at least for now, but when I turned around she was asleep in her chair, her head flopped back, her arms dangling at her sides.

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