Lyford, Jr. , Richard Taylor November 15, 1931 – September 30, 2020 Age 88, born in Philadelphia, PA, he was a graduate of the Episcopal Academy and Trinity College, Hartford, CT, where he was ...

Had Steven Spielberg been a 16-millimeter camera-toting teen in the 1930s, his home movies might have looked like “As the Earth Turns,” a black-and-white, silent 45-minute science-fiction film about a ...

A bit of local film history will unspool on Turner Classic Movies on Halloween night. “As the Earth Turns,” a 1938 45-minute silent film directed by a very young Seattle filmmaker named Richard H.

SEATTLE — It's a film 80 years in the making. A silent movie that is silent no more. "As the Earth Turns" was filmed in and around Seattle in 1937 by a 20-year-old writer, actor and director named ...

EAST MACHIAS and MILBRIDGE – Richard E. Lyford, 82, passed away peacefully Aug. 17, 2011, in Milbridge, after a lengthy illness. He was born Aug. 31, 1928, in Orneville, son of Ervin and Avanelle ...

Back in 1936, Richard Lyford, a 19-year-old Seattle filmmaker, was in the middle of making his seventh film, called “The Scalpel.” The film was shot here in Seattle and incorporated Lyford’s signature ...

The film also showcased Lyford’s skills with makeup and early cinematic special effects, which he used to transform himself into a Dr. Jekyll-like scientist who experiments on himself with gruesome ...

Ed Hartman's "It Gets In Your Blood," a documentary about Pacific Northwest horror director, Richard Lyford. Credit: 8th Sense Productions Decades before the Pacific Northwest had any kind of film ...