Category: Film Programming
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The Strand Theater in Schroon Lake NY
I’ve had the privilege of presenting and accompanying a silent film show at the historic Strand Theater in Schroon Lake NY every summer since 2017. The Strand Theater in Schroon Lake NY is a vintage, single-screen movie house in the Adirondacks. It originally opened 1921, and is still open today. The theater and its interior…
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Undercrank Prods: “Beat the Boots”?
It’s an endless game of whack-a-mole. To some degree, there’s nothing to be done about it. I’m impressed that most of my DVD and Blu-ray releases have not been illicitly uploaded to YouTube. But several of them have, and aside from claiming rights on the scores, there isn’t much I can do about this. Or…
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It’s Halloween – Has Anyone Seen “The Bat”?
Every Halloween season, silent film accompanists and church organists find themselves on the bench supporting silent film’s usual suspects: Erik the Phantom, Quasimodo, Drs. Jekyll and Caligari, and Count Orlok. Most of these are more gothic or macabre than what one may consider bona fide “horror film”, with the exception of this year’s centenarian Nosferatu…