Episode 62 Show Notes: “Round-up of January 2024 shows, and more”
Theme & Introductions
Introduction
- Silent Movies are thriving!
- Increased restorations in homevideo; increased awareness of the importance of physical media
- Undercrank Productions is likely to have at least as many new releases in 2024 as it did in 2023
Live Performances of Improvised Scores
- Sky High (1922) starring Tom Mix at the Library of Congress Packard Campus
- Ben adapted his piano themes from the Blu ray to the theater organ at Packard
- Walker Digital Theater Organ
- With Buster Keaton in Cops (not Ben playing)
The Importance of Experiencing Silent Films presented with Live Music
- Kerr discovers that silent films play better with an audience than they do at home!
- Buster Keaton in Go West (1925) (not Ben, either)
- Ben finds that Wesleyan and NYU students connect more strongly to silent films when shown
- with a live improvised score: Stella Maris (starring Mary Pickford) and Shoes (directed by
- Lois Weber)
- Silent Comedy Watch Party Episode 100 coming in March 2024! – Improvised music LIVE!
- Ben is available to livestream anywhere in the world where you have highspeed internet.
Silent Film Comedian Marcel Perez
- Marcel Perez in Robinet is Loved Too Much By His Wife (1912) at the Silent Clowns Film Series
- Is Volume 3 DVD in the works? Stay tuned!
- Check out the laughter in the recording.
Intermission – Home Video activities
- Future release of Francis Ford films from Eye Filmmuseum
- Accidentally Preserved Volume 5, curated and accompanied by Jon Mirsalis
- 2K scans of 16mm prints, some of which are the only known copies
- Lorraine of the Lions (1925) – 76 mins
- Love At First Flight (1928) – 18 mins [Mack Sennett comedy]
- Hoofbeats of Vengeance – 47 mins [Rex, King of Wild Horses]
- The Fourth Commandment (1927) – 66 mins
- The Bat (1926) will be out for autumn release
- Tom Tyler Westerns
From Kino-Lorber Vitagraph Comedies
From Classic Flix: Silent Our Gang Comedies
Silent Films at MoMA (NYC)
- Man, Woman & Sin (1927, MGM) starring John Gilbert, Jeanne Eagels, written and directed by Monta Bell
- Introduced by David Stenn at the Museum of Modern Arts as part of To Save and Project
- Ben recommends the new MoMA/BFI restoration of Douglas Fairbanks’s The Black Pirate restored from the surviving 2-color Technicolor negatives. Selected and introduced by Alexander Payne and financed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. (This is NOT the version available on Kino Lorber from Cohen Film – so far there has been no announcement about homevideo release.)
Personal appearances to come
- Kansas Silent Film Festival, February 23-24 in White Concert Hall at Washburn University
- Ben will be presenting and accompanying Paths to Paradise starring Raymond Griffith at the KSFF, and other silents
- Episilon Spires – The Mark of Zorro on April 6
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Goodbye!
(New recording of the new podcast theme)
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