Tag: cinema arts center

  • Wings, with special guest Budd Schulberg

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    Ben Model

    Our Silent Clowns show on Nov 11 featured the 1927 “Wings”, and I accompanied on the Miditzer virtual theatre organ. We had a real nice 16mm print, originally owned by Walter Kerr and donated to us a few years ago by the Kerr family (along with a few other titles). The added attraction which happened…

  • mid-October report

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a new videoblog report about what’s goin’ on right now: News in brief: just been booked as a speaker for a show of City Lights in Feb ’08 for the Greenwich Classic Film Series newly donated Steinway at MoMA now in place, and chrome-legged piano in Titus 2 now out of the picture just…

  • DeMille’s “King of Kings”, Keaton, and “Pandora’s Box”

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    Ben Model

    Photo at the right is the beautiful console of the organ at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, which I had the great fortune to play in accompaniment to DeMille’s 1927 epic King of Kings on Fri March 23. The organ is a 4/83 Moller, and was restored in 2000. A magnificent instrument in…

  • on the radio in Owego

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    Ben Model

    Did a live radio interview on WEBO yesterday morning around 8:15am to promote the Ti-Ahwaga showing of The General on Fri 3/16 (tom’w). The station (1330AM) is a sponsor of the film series, and will be re-running parts of the interview throughout the day or two leading up to the show. Here it is, for…

  • The Beggar Maid, NYC

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    Ben Model

    Played for The Beggar Maid (1921, dir. H. Blache) this afternoon at the Met. The film preceded a lecture on Tiffany and the Tiffany estate, and the house was packed with museum-goers (plus a bunch of people I recognized from my e-list). The film was shown in a 16mm from Milestone Film & Video; Eastman…

  • Squaw Man shows; Chaplin orchestral performance

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    Ben Model

    [FYI…I have now fixed the setting on this blog that allows you to post comments so that it works now.] Played for DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914) twice last week, and brought my MD recorder to the second show to make a reference recording. We ran the film at 20fps both times. What was interesting…

  • Peter Pan on Long Island, and more…

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    Ben Model

    Today’s show wraps up a rather busy December; 10 shows plus some scoring for DVDs. Two rather successful school shows of The Crowd at AMMI, a vaudeville show in Manahawkin NJ, and the Silent Clowns “Buster’s Stunning Stunts” shows are among the highlights. Played for Peter Pan (1924) at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington,…