Episode 47 Show Notes: accompanying The Patsy, The Cameraman and Gilbert Gottfried
- Live performances are slowly returning
- The Patsy with Marion Davies
- “The Patsy”, which was originally a stage play, recently returned to New York as a one-man show.
- How Ben’s improvisation spontaneously fit with the physical action to come.
- Excerpt from a performance at St. Francis College in Brooklyn
- Performers and their signature physical business
- video clips of Lawrence Gray doing the physical comedy business can be seen here
- Ben’s appearance on Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast
- Gilbert and Ben improvise an imaginary silent film
- Gilbert’s knowledge of show business history vs. his transgressive sense of humor.
- Sponsorship announcement: Beverly of Graustark from Undercrank Productions and the Library of Congress
- Tease for bonus episode: An interview with Rick Benjamin of The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
- Revisiting The Cameraman with Buster Keaton.
- Using less music rather than more to highlight the acting in silent film
- (Ben’s earlier analysis of the parallels between The Cameraman’s kiss in the rain scene with the one in Singin’ In The Rain.
- Oxford Community Center, Oxford, Maryland
- How things in silent film make no sound unless a picture indicates it.
- Accompanying the Tong War sequence in The Cameraman without invoking inappropriate and out-of-date cultural cliches.
- Ben’s shows coming up:
- Women and the Silent Screen IX: Women, Cinema, and World Migration; (Ben plays afternoon and evening on Sunday, June 5th)
- Monthly Shows at the Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, NY
- July 23 – Lyric Theater, Blacksburg Virginia, Buster Keaton shorts and Wings
- August 12 Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, Ocean Grove, NJ – Our Hospitality
- BONUS EPISODE – ep. 48
- Kerr talks with Rick Benjamin of The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
- Music selections taken from Pioneers of Movie Music: Sounds of the American Silent Film album