Author: Ben Model

  • Charley Chase flyer from AllDay

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    FYE here is a scan of the ad slick for the upcoming Charley Chase DVD set from AllDay Entertainment. Click on the image (R) to see it full-size. The set is called Becoming Charley Chase and will feature all the extant Jimmy Jump shorts as well as films Chase appeared in while at Keystone and…

  • Berkshire Jewish Film Festival pics

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    Here are photos from the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival. At right is the upright piano and piano stool (first time I think I’ve ever used this kind of stool at a show). Kudos to Al Saldarini of the Duffin Theater at the Lenox Memorial Middle & High School for all the tech-spertise and piano wrangling…

  • DeMille, Dreyer, Lubistch and Chaplin

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    Today’s post is a videoblog: See you at the silents! Ben

  • Ten Commandments, perf #1

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    I’ve now completely recovered from Slapsticon and am back in the swing of things. Bookings continue to come in nearly every day. Today I got a show at a library in East Meadow (L.I.) that’ll happen in November, which I’ll be doing with (and thanks to) Dylan Skolnick of the Cinema Arts Centre. This evening…

  • Slapsticon 2008 photos

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    Ben Model

    Haven’t had a chance to post since returning from Slapsticon, and am squeezing this post out. There’s lots to report, but this posting of photos taken last week will have to suffice and I’ll post again soon. Here are (L to R) yours truly, Richard Roberts, Philip Carli and Andrew Simpson posing at the Kohler…

  • (Safety Last + shorts show) x 2; AllDay recording

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    July 15 – yesterday I accompanied Safety Last (plus the Lloyd 1-reeler Luke’s Shattered Sleep) and a shorts program at MoMA on piano. I’ll repeat the shows tomorrow on theatre organ. Safety Last knocked the audience out, as usual, and I was pleased to see a number of kids and younger people in the audience.…

  • ad for St Pauls show

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    Just picked up a copy of “The West Sider”, a free weekly paper that I’d heard that Father Gil had placed an ad in for the St. Paul the Apostle silent film programs. I was looking for somethinga few inches square, but was surprised to find a half-page full height ad in the paper’s what-to-do-this-weekend…

  • 5 shows performed, 2 bass strings replaced, 1 recording for Kino

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    July 12 – Weds and Thurs I played to Keaton’s The General, Lloyd’s The Freshman, and Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. in the Titus 1 theater at MoMA. The Miditzer theatre organ sounded great in there (T1 is the bigger of the three theaters at MoMA). Shows were well-attended, and I saw some familiar faces who brought…

  • Max Davidson and Dmitri Kirsanov

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    Here’s a shot of the Yiddish Book Center, on the campus of Hampshire College. Nearly every summer for the last 5 years or so Bruce Lawton and I do a show there. This year was (yet) another program of Max Davidson comedy shorts. At right you see Bruce, me, and Jane Gronau, Director of the…

  • Recording; Kirsanov prep

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    July 3 – watched Menilmontant and Brumes d’automne this morning; these films are on one of the discs of Avante Garde, a multi-disc DVD set of experimental and avante garde art films in the Rohauer collection that came out a couple years ago. Watched them films with sound off, to better hear any music or…