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The Douglas Fairbanks Museum will be closed from Nov. 21-27 for the Thanksgiving holiday. We will close on Dec. 19, 2011 for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, and reopen to the public on Jan. 2, 2012. Thanks for all your support this year and happy holidays!  

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Our sincere appreciation and thanks to the Cinefamily for featuring an entire month of Douglas Fairbanks’ classic films at the Silent Movie Theatre, a Los Angeles landmark.(611 N. Fairfax Ave.) All throughout the month of February, Fairbanks films will be playing every Wednesday night in this vintage Art Deco  movie house. All screenings are open [...]

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ZORRO SLASHES INTO AUSTIN!   Rick Benjamin’s PARAGON ORCHESTRA plays the original score to Douglas Fairbanks’ ‘The Mark of Zorro’ January 30, 2011 4 PM Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX   “Listening to a full band perform the complete scores, written and timed to the action, became a surprising delight…The audience chuckled [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 10, 2011 CONTACT: THE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM (830) 444-0523 Email BURGLARS NAB RARE FAIRBANKS FILMS, PHOTOS, ARTIFACTS IN HOLIDAY HEIST Items dating back to the early 1900s and valued at more than $10,000 (USD) were stolen from the museum’s collections during a late night burglary over the New Year’s holiday. Original [...]

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  The Douglas Fairbanks Museum recently provided research materials to the History Channel for an upcoming  documentary about the use of language in film. Vintage news articles from the museum’s newspaper and magazine archives were requested by the network specifically pertaining to the 1916 Douglas Fairbanks comedy, The Habit of Happiness – reportedly the first [...]

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LONDON — A £75 million ($120 million) movie based on Baroness Orczy’s classic “The Scarlet Pimpernel” is front and center of seriously ambitious production plans for Fairbanks Productions, the U.K.’s newest and big-talking filmmaking banner on the block. Dominick Fairbanks, the great grandson and grandson of Hollywood legends Douglas Fairbanks and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., plans [...]

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On May 23, 1883, a ray of Colorado sunshine was born in Denver. He grew up to become our swashbuckling hero of the silent silver screen and everyone’s favorite all-American boy!   Happy Birthday, Mr. Fairbanks…and *thank you* for all the smiles you’ve given the world.:) Douglas Fairbanks as D’Artagnan from “The Three Musketeers” as featured [...]

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Mold: The Whole Picture, Part 4: Effect of Mold on Schools, Homes, & Human Beings by Ellen McCrady ABOUT THE AUTHOR:   Ellen Ruth McCrady, publisher of Abbey Publications and editor of the Abbey Newsletter, Alkaline Paper Advocate, and The Mold Reporter passed away on March 5, 2008.   When Pasteur demonstrated in the late [...]

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Mold: The Whole Picture Pt. 3, A Neglected Public Health Problem by Ellen McCrady ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Ellen Ruth McCrady, publisher of Abbey Publications and editor of the Abbey Newsletter, Alkaline Paper Advocate, and The Mold Reporter passed away on March 5, 2008. There have been so many stories in the news media lately about mold-infested [...]

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Mold: The Whole Picture Pt. 2, Assessment of Mold Problems by Ellen McCrady ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ellen Ruth McCrady, publisher of Abbey Publications and editor of the Abbey Newsletter, Alkaline Paper Advocate, and The Mold Reporter passed away on March 5, 2008. Part 1 (v.23 #4) emphasized the preservation community’s need for better contact with [...]

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Mold: The Whole Picture Pt. 1 by Ellen McCrady Mold is fascinating, despite the fact that it can be destructive and unhealthy, even deadly sometimes. For me it is an intellectual challenge, almost like playing a magical game of chess with an opponent who can become invisible, change into an animal and back again at [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAR. 7, 2010 CONTACT: THE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM PHONE: (830) 444-0523 MUSEUM MOVES OUT OF MOLDY BUILDING Since the discovery of mold inside the Douglas Fairbanks Museum’s new building over a month ago, museum staffers have been busy packing and moving the collections to safe climate-controlled storage offsite. The move was completed [...]

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAR. 1, 2010 CONTACT: THE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM PHONE: (830) 444-0523 MUSEUM’S NEW BUILDING INFESTED WITH MOLD   On January 1, the Douglas Fairbanks Museum relocated to Gonzales, Texas, after nearly four years of occupying temporary office and exhibit spaces during their search for a new permanent location. The museum moved into an 1890s vintage [...]

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Planned museum faces new problems   The Gonzales Inquirer February 16, 2010 For Keri Leigh and Greg Jackson, moving to Gonzales seemed to be the answer to their life-long dream of permanently locating a very unique museum. The two indeed moved to Gonzales just a few short weeks ago to open the Douglas Fairbanks Museum, [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    FEB. 15, 2010       CONTACT:    THE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM   KERI LEIGH, CURATOR PHONE: 830-444-0523 EMAIL: DouglasFairbanksMuseum@gmail.com WEB: http://DouglasFairbanks.org       DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM RE-OPENING POSTPONED       The Douglas Fairbanks Museum’s re-opening, originally scheduled for Monday, March 1, 2010 is being postponed due to the discovery of toxic [...]

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