Tag: verdensteatret

  • The Lighthouse and the Sidecar Get it Right

    The Lighthouse and the Sidecar Get it Right

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    “The Lighthouse and the Sidecar” is a nickname that is probably more catchy in its original language, Danish. Evoking two things that are pretty much extinct doesn’t help either. But this was how many people in Scandinavia and maybe Europe referred to Fy & By (pron. FEE eh BEE), who were sort the equivalent of…

  • Sept 1, in Tromsø Norway – school show

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    Ben Model

    Here is a new videoblog entry from my first day (back) in Tromsø, Norway. You’ll get to see what the Verdensteatret theatre looks like, and get a glimpse at one of the three shows we did for groups of 5th-graders.

  • more photos from Stumfilm Dagere i Tromsø

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    This is the Verdensteatret Kino (“kino” means cinema), with banners hung for the festival. I love their logo of a dialog balloon with an “X” where dialog would be. This is the oldest kino in Norway. Here is a photo of one of the murals that line the walls of the Verdensteatret (translated: “World Theater”).…

  • Tromsø school show photos

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    Ben Model

    Here you see me and Martha Otte, festival director, presenting stumfilm to a group of 5th graders at Verdensteatret on Fri, Sept 5th. Each student got a piece of 35mm film so we could explain what film itself was and (briefly) that our brains turn a series of still pictures into moving images. I had…

  • 3 school shows in Tromsø

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    Ben Model

    Sept 5 ’08 – Tromsø, NORWAY — Photo above is of me holding yesterday’s “Nordlys” daily paper, showing the big spread given to “Stumfilm Dagere”. Notice the photo of Buster Keaton in Seven Chances, which I’ll be accompanying on Sunday with the Miditzer. The kino (Norwegian for cinema, or movie theater, pronounced “CHEE-noh”) has a…