Ben and Kerr talk about Ben’s busy Halloween season, underscoring the unmasking scene in “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925) at Angel Nyack, and his encounters with theater ghosts; also covered are Ben’s accompanying “Her Sister From Paris” (1925) with Constance Talmadge at the Silent Clowns Film Series, the differences between playing a church pipe organ and a theatre organ for silents, and more. The episode includes performance excerpts from Ben’s scores for the two films mentioned above as well as from a show at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater of Josef Von Sternberg’s “Underworld” (1928).
Show notes for episode 71 can be found here.
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