Returning to the Newhall Family Theatre is the Newhallywood Silent Film Festival presented by the City of Santa Clarita. The 2025 Newhallywood Silent Film Festival celebrates the film heritage of the Santa Clarita Valley and the film industry before the introduction of sound. This year’s festival honors Lon Chaney, the man of 1000 faces, and Director/Writer/Editor/Film Theorist Sergei Eisenstein.

The Festival starts off with a screening of Buster Keaton’s Go West, celebrating it’s 100th Anniversary. Written and directed by Buster Keaton, this film features Keaton as a drifter who travels west to make his fortune. Once there, he tries his hand at bronco-busting, cattle wrangling and dairy farming, eventually forming a bond with a cow named “Brown Eyes.” (Running time is 83 minutes)

Following that screening, the Festival continues with the Keaton short Cops originally released in 1922. Buster Keaton again stars in this short about a young man who accidentally gets on the bad side of the entire Los Angeles Police Department during a parade and is chased all over town. The United States Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry for preservation in 1997. (Running time is 18 minutes)

**Important note regarding parking: street parking is very limited. The Old Town Newhall Library parking lot, as well as the structure across the street, are located within short walking distance of the Newhall Family Theatre for the Performing Arts.**