Tag: ben model

  • belated blog post from Eldridge St, Indian Lake and Astoria

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a new installment of my video blog, in which we visit the historic Eldridge St Synagogue for a Max Davidson show, the 1938 Indian Lake Theater and “Safety Last”, and the gala re-opening of the Museum of the Moving Image.

  • was this sequence timed to music? could be…

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    Ben Model

    I’ve found in numerous in Chaplin films that certaiin sequences and routines fit a musical beat and structure, that a bit of business will fit nicely an 8 or 16 bar phrase. It may have been an innate thing with Chaplin, and he may not have intended this at all. First time it popped up…

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a rare 1927 comedy short that I’ve just scored and uploaded to YouTube. I used a virtual piano software from Native Instruments, and chose the Steingraeber upright instead of one of the grands (e.g. Steinway D), as it seemed like a good fit. Enjoy! Ben [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4FowS0Xms&fs=1&hl=en_US]

  • “Spice of the Program” downloadable MP3

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    Ben Model

    I’ve just discovered that Naxos’ music download site, ClassicsOnline.com, has my chamber piece available. There are a few other sites that have the CD available, including iTunes, but you have to buy the whole CD to get my piece. On the Naxos site you can buy just my track, for $2.39. Click here to go…

  • views of the Indian Lake Theatre, Indian Lake NY

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    Ben Model

    Here are some photos I took of the Indian Lake Theatre in Indian Lake, NY. They brought me up to present and accompany Harold Lloyd’s “Safety Last” on Sunday, November 21st. The theatre was built in 1938 and was a summer-season-only movie theater, and continued to be so for the next several decades. The theatre…

  • article in “Lake Champlain Weekly” re Safety Last show

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    Ben Model

    This very nice article appeared in the Nov 17-23, 2010 issue of the Lake Champlain weekly, a feature story promoting the “Safety Last” show I did for the Champlain Valley Film Society on Nov 20. In the CVFS’s 8-year history, the #2 and #3 ranking movies in terms of attendance were last year’s showing of…

  • Nosferatu at MoMA, on Time Inc website

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a cool video profile on me, just posted on the Time Inc. website, and made by Jim Fields. This was shot in the early spring, but I will actually be playing for “Schreck” in December during MoMA’s “Weimar Kino” series. Enjoy! If you wanna see it on the Time Inc. site click here. http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

  • guest on WNYU FM’s “Citywide” with Lucas Green

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    Ben Model

    I was a guest on the “Citywide” radio program on WNYU (89.1 FM and on wnyu.org) tonight. Well, actually we pre-recorded the half-hour show last week. The show is hosted by Lucas Green, currently an NYU student who I met in March when I played and spoke at Prof. Antonia Lant’s silent cinema class there.…

  • 3 weeks of daily silent film screenings at MoMA in June

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    Ben Model

    I will be rawther busy in June. Here is the schedule for the repeat-showings of nearly all the silent film programs in Charles Silver’s Auteurist History of Film series. It’s going to be a blast revisiting all these, and in three weeks of daily screenings of silent film. This go-round, the shows will be held…

  • silent film music at “Meet Me At The Corner”

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    Ben Model

    A new episode of “Meet Me At The Corner” was posted today on meetmeatthecorner.org, a well-traveled educational website of virtual field trips. The episode is about silent film and its music, and I was the guest in the piece. We shot this last fall, when the Colorado-based producer, Donna Guthrie, contacted me in advance of…