OCTOBER 3, 2021 @ 12:15pm (Eastern) FILM FORUM CELEBRATES NATIONAL SILENT MOVIE DAY WITH A 35MM RESTORATION OF SPEEDY & IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SPEEDY

Introduced by Suzanne Lloyd (granddaughter of Harold Lloyd) and Bruce Goldstein

♪ Live Piano Accompaniment by Steve Sterner

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SPEEDY

(1928, Tim Wilde) Jazz Age Idols meet, as baseball-crazed soda jerk/cabbie Harold Lloyd and passenger Babe Ruth hurtle to old Yankee Stadium. Extensive NYC location work is highlighted during a frenzied finale, as Harold races Gotham’s last horse-drawn trolley right through Washington Square Arch! “No filmmaker had ever made such flamboyant use of New York.” – Kevin Brownlow.

Approx. 85 min. Archival 35mm print restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Courtesy Harold Lloyd Entertainment. Recommended for all ages!

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SPEEDY

(2015, Bruce Goldstein) In this acclaimed 30-minute documentary, Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Director of Repertory Programming, takes us on a tour of the NYC locations captured by Lloyd and his Hollywood crew for Speedy – many of them only steps away from Film Forum (along with vivid scenes shot in Coney Island, Midtown, Sutton Place, Yankee Stadium, etc.).

Edited and photographed by William Hohauser.

Approx. 30 mins. DCP. Courtesy The Criterion Collection.

SUZANNE LLOYD is the granddaughter of Harold and was raised by Lloyd and his wife Mildred Davis Lloyd (the comedian’s former leading lady) on their legendary Beverly Hills estate Greenacres. Following Lloyd’s death in 1971, 19-year-old Suzanne became the trustee of his film library, along with a collection of over 200,000 3-D photographs shot by Lloyd. Suzanne served on the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute for over 20 years and has published three books. She lives in Los Angeles.

NATIONAL SILENT MOVIE DAY was launched by Chad Hunter, Executive Director of Video Trust and Director of the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society; Brandee B. Cox, a Senior Film Archivist at the Academy Film Archive; and Steven K. Hill, Associate Motion Picture Curator at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and aims to raise awareness about the urgency of preserving as many surviving silent films as possible.

October 2, 2021 @ 1:30pm (Pacific) An epic set in the early twentieth century, with a plotline based around the vast desert irrigation projects of that period and the unscrupulous developers who supported them. Based on a 1911 best-selling novel of the same name and featuring the first credited appearance of Academy Award winning actor Gary Cooper.   

Directed by Henry King | Starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Banky, and Gary Cooper  
Screened in 35mm with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. 

The Silent Treatment Film Series   

Watch silent movies the way they were meant to be seen—on the big screen with live musical accompaniment! Showcasing a wide variety of early cinema in the best available formats, “The Silent Treatment” is a long-running silent movie film series curated by film archivists Brandee Cox and Steven Hill.  

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Central)

Felix The Cat (Short film) & The Navigator (1924)

Tickets are $5 for adults, $2 for 16 & under. Films are accompanied with music on the Circle's original 1928 theatre pipe organ. Sponsored in part by Sooner State Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society. More information at https://www.circlecinema.org.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 10:00pm (Pacific)
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Celebrating International Silent Film Day

1920 | 79 MINUTES | DIRECTED BY: OSCAR MICHEAUX

WITHIN OUR GATES is the earliest surviving feature film by an African-American director. It was Oscar Micheaux’s second film (after 1919’s THE HOMESTEADER, now lost), and involves an idealistic young woman named Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer, one of the first great stars of the race film) who attempts to raise money for an elementary school to serve the black community. The film touches upon themes that would recur throughout the controversial filmmaker’s career, such as the promise of rural life vs. the corruptive influence of the city, and the use of religion as a means of misleading the black community.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

Tickets: https://americancinematheque.com/now-showing/within-our-gates/

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Pacific)

Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test will be required to attend this screening. Learn more here. Most screenings are currently at 75% capacity. Some screenings will be at 100% and, if so, the page for that event will note that. Masks are required while in all common areas, including in your seat when not actively eating or drinking.

1928 classic starring comedian extraordinaire, Buster Keaton. Buster plays a college graduate trying to gain the respect of his father, a roughneck riverboat captain, as well as the love of Kitty, pretty daughter of his father’s business rival. This film contains one of cinema’s most famous (and dangerous) stunts as Buster narrowly avoids being crushed by a tumbling house façade.

Along with our feature film, we will be showing a rare recently restored Thanhauser Studio short film: TOODLES, TOM & TROUBLE (1915)

Both films will be accompanied live by organist Jonas Nordwall, performing his original score on the Hollywood’s Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

Info and tickets at https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/steamboat-bill-jr/.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Pacific)

“Dziga Vertov’s experimental silent documentary upends reality in ways that are still dizzying, thrilling and strangely sexy.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

The Man with a Movie Camera
(Chelovek s kinoapparatom)
Dziga Vertov
USSR, 1929
Judith Rosenburg on piano

Witty, sassy, and with an infectious joie de vivre, The Man with a Movie Camera demonstrates Dziga Vertov’s “kino-eye” theory, endowing the camera with the flexibility of the human eye and the associative powers of a poet’s brain. An ecstatic portrait of a city and its inhabitants (really three cities—Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa merged), it is a compendium of extravagant camera and editing techniques, forever commenting on itself and our own watching. Appropriately, the camera-hero takes a bow at the end.

“At once a Whitman-esque documentary-portrait of the Soviet people, a self-reflexive essay on cinematic representation, and an ode to the transformative power of human labor, this fantastically cross-referenced, cubo-kaleidoscopic city symphony took parallel action to the third—or fourth—dimension.” —J. Hoberman, Village Voice

Tickets at https://bampfa.org/event/man-movie-camera.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 will be the premiere of two rare silent comedies starring Ford Sterling!

Ford Sterling was one of the earliest superstars of film comedy. Working with Mack Sennett at Biograph and then Keystone, he soon became a huge star and influenced many performers in film comedy, including Chaplin. Now, often forgotten or misunderstood, we believe Ford needs a spotlight or two turned his way, so we're dusting off a couple of his film rarities, to add to our You Tube channel collection.

https://www.youtube.com/c/DaveGlass/videos

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Pacific) A group of film archivists with a passion for silent movies has established September 29 as National Silent Movie Day—an annual day to celebrate silent film history and raise awareness about the race to preserve surviving silent films. For the inaugural celebration, theaters across the country will be screening silent films with musical accompaniment. Our contribution is a virtual screening of a classic performance by famed Chinese silent movie star Ruan Lingyu, with music by master accompanist Donald Sosin.

Info at https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/films/.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-goddess-tickets-166307156181

Featuring an exclusive score by pianist Donald Sosin!

Chinese film expert Christopher Rea calls The Goddess “the most celebrated Chinese film of the silent era.” Starring the legendary Ruan Lingyu—the most famous silent film actress in China—in one of her most iconic performances as a Shanghai prostitute who will sacrifice everything for her young son. Featuring visually stunning images of nighttime Shanghai, the film will be presented with a new score created exclusively for this event by noted silent film accompanist Donald Sosin, whose work has appeared on countless silent movie DVDs.

Dir.: Wu Yonggang, China, 1934, 85 min., black & white, silent with English intertitles)

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Pacific)
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Part of the “Night Train to the Cinema” series

1926 | 80 MINUTES | DIRECTED BY: BUSTER KEATON

During the Civil War, train engineer Johnny Grey (Keaton, at his most fearless and funny) has his beloved locomotive stolen by Union spies. He boards and mans another massive train, appropriately named Texas, and sets out to pursue and catch up to his kidnapped steam engine. This classic film is not only an inimitable comedy but also a feat of physical daring, and is not to be missed! Includes Keaton riding the front of a moving train, running along the roof and jumping from car to car, and the filming of a locomotive careening off a collapsing bridge!

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cohen Media

Tickets: https://americancinematheque.com/now-showing/the-general/

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7pm (Central) After the Mexican actress Dolores del Río shot to stardom in Raoul Walsh's 1926 runaway hit WHAT PRICE GLORY, Fox Film quickly cast her as Prosper Mérimée's fiery Spanish gypsy, again under Walsh's direction, in what became Fox's highest-grossing film of 1927. For Walsh and del Río, Carmen is no longer a smoldering femme fatale, but rather a bouncing embodiment of life force and libido, who finds her male counterpart in the bullfighter Escamillo (Victor McLaglen) and her nemesis in the dark romanticism of cavalry officer Don José (Don Alvarado). Despite the film's success, no prints of the domestic version are known to exist. This MoMA restoration was painstakingly reconstructed from an export version preserved by the National Film Archive of the Czech Republic. (Note courtesy of MoMA.) DIR Raoul Walsh; SCR Gertrude Orr, from the novella "Carmen" by Prosper Mérimée; PROD William Fox. U.S., 1927, b&w, 90 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED

Restored by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique partnership between the Directors Guild of America (DGA); the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA); Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique (SACEM) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW).

Live musical accompaniment by Andrew Simpson
New 2K DCP
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Genre: Romance drama

AFI Member passes accepted.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 6:40pm (Eastern) FILM FORUM CELEBRATES NATIONAL SILENT MOVIE DAY with Allan Dwan’s MANHANDLED!

Starring Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore, Lilyan Tashman, Ann Pennington, Frank Morgan

♪ Live Piano Accompaniment by Steve Sterner

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MANHANDLED

(1924, Allan Dwan) Gum-cracking department store shop assistant Gloria Swanson finds her chance impersonation of a Russian countess (parodying Swanson rival Pola Negri) is an entrée into Manhattan society, in the quintessential NYC working girl silent comedy, with a memorable subway rush hour crunch (filmed at Paramount Studios in Astoria). Featuring sultry siren Lilyan Tashman, a guest appearance by Ziegfeld Follies star Ann Pennington, and an early appearance by Frank Morgan, the future “Wizard of Oz.” Filmed at Paramount East Coast Studios, Astoria, Queens.

Approx. 65 min. Digital preservation courtesy Paramount Pictures.

NATIONAL SILENT MOVIE DAY was launched by Chad Hunter, Executive Director of Video Trust and Director of the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society; Brandee B. Cox, a Senior Film Archivist at the Academy Film Archive; and Steven K. Hill, Associate Motion Picture Curator at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and aims to raise awareness about the urgency of preserving as many surviving silent films as possible.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Mountain) Join us at Helper's Rio Theater for a free screening of train-enthusiast Buster Keaton's 1926 classic comedy 'The General' in conjunction with National Silent Movie Day! Keaton's masterpiece features large-scale action set in South during the Civil War, and was filmed along one of the nation's last narrow-gauge railroad lines near Cottage Grove, Oregon. Keaton's amazing physical stunts, stone-faced acting style, and love for his locomotive (named "General") will make this a favorite of train enthusiasts as well as comedy fans. We will be streaming the recent 2k restoration by Kino Lorber with an orchestral soundtrack by composer Jeff Beal. A 5-minute cartoon short will precede the movie.

The museum will also be taking membership donations and offering discounts on some museum and train-related gift items. Thanks to Mayor Peterman and the City of Helper, the Rio Theater, and West Coast Show Support for making this event possible!

The annual National Silent Movie Day celebrates silent cinema and advocates for silent film preservation with screenings all over the world each September 29. This year, it's happening in Helper! Join us!

More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/827597927914698

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Mountain) Celebrate National Silent Movie Day with BYU’s Silent Movie Remixes!

We invite the student community as well as the broader community to come celebrate and explore silent films with us!

What Films:

• SHOOTIN’ MAD (1918) – “Bronco Billy” Anderson short

• EASY STREET (1917) – Charles Chaplin short

• HELL’S HINGES (1916) – William S. Hart Western feature

Movies have never been truly silent, as music was used to dramatic effect virtually from cinema’s inception. However, synchronized sound would not become technologically available until 1927, leaving approximately 30 years for artists to develop a language of storytelling techniques with only moving images.

Join us as we develop a greater appreciation of silent movies and their language.

Restricting the screenings to the silent era, yet opening the aural possibilities, student artists will select music without restriction of era or genre to underscore the on-screen narrative. The juxtaposition of old stories and nontraditional music will creatively result in new connections.

Our goal is to respectfully underscore the emotional impact of the narrative in new and experimental ways. We want to help this artform be accessible to new audiences, and to refresh the artform for current fans. At a minimum these will be enjoyable experiments and a unique experience!

Info at https://scblog.lib.byu.edu/2021/09/13/silent-movie-remix/

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 8pm (Eastern) Notable for its female-led creative team, Dorothy Arzner (story), Adela Rogers St. John (screenplay) and Dorothy Davenport Reid (direction), The Red Kimona is a landmark “social conscience” film from the silent era. Based on the true story of Gabrielle Darley, the film proclaims itself to be a “startling human document.”

Priscilla Bonner plays Darley, a small-town girl who finds escape from her cruel home life in the arms of a handsome stranger. Soon she finds herself working as a prostitute in New Orleans, desperately clinging to the belief that he really loves her. When she discovers him buying an engagement ring for another woman, she shoots him. Her murder trial becomes a cause célèbre and Gabrielle finds herself befriended by a rich society woman who professes deep concern for the unfortunate girl. After the acquittal, she goes to live with Mrs. Smith, intending to start a new life, but finds that her benefactor has little use for her once the newspaper men have gone. Unable to find an honest job because of her notorious past, Gabrielle becomes homeless and penniless and nearly returns to prostitution before looming international crises and a handsome man from the past point her way forward. (Dorothy Davenport Reid, USA, 1925, 80 min., silent with pre-recorded musical score)

Presented as part of National Silent Movie Day as part of the Silents, Please! series presented by Louis Bluver. More info at: www.nationalsilentmovieday.org/

Our goal is to ensure your visit to Lightbox is safe and comfortable. As we resume in-person events in the coming months, we will continue to follow the health and safety guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control as well as state and local officials. While preparing to attend a Lightbox program please note the following:

• Lightbox Film Center at UArts is a vaccine-required community, with few exceptions.

• All guests must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and masks are required.

• Lightbox will be operating at reduced capacity until further notice.

Tickets to all screenings must be purchased in advance at https://lightboxfilmcenter.org/programs/the-red-kimona.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 2:00pm & 7:00pm (Central) Two screenings of The Last Warning with live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.

Adapted from Thomas F. Fallon's 1922 Broadway play of the same name, The Last Warning is based on the story The House of Fear by Wadsworth Camp and centers on an unsolved murder that occurs during a live Broadway performance. When the victim's body goes missing, the death remains unsolved and the theater is condemned. That is, until years later when a suspicious new "producer" arrives to re-stage the play with the original cast and crew.

This program will be held live in-person in the auditorium. Safety precautions are in place for in-person programs according to library safety guidelines. Please review our current safety guidelines prior to the event. 

Advance registration is required for all programs, unless noted otherwise.

ThE LAST WARNING | 1929 | Not Rated | 78 min. | DCP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 5:00pm (Pacific) In celebration of National Silent Film Day, PB&J is proud to partner with Jacksonville's Norman Studios for a special Silent film screening. Please join us for a virtual viewing of The Flying Ace. Tickets will cost $10 each and directly support Norman Studios and their mission.

The Norman Studios Silent Film Museum, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization formed in 2007 to protect and preserve the history of silent film and to celebrate the African-American experience and the role of filmmaker Richard E. Norman in the early days of the movie industry. It began when a group of passionate preservationists living and working in Jacksonville’s Old Arlington neighborhood recognized the historical significance of five wooden buildings and formed Old Arlington, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the neighborhood’s rich history.

PB&J, which stands for Party, Benefit & Jam, is a Jacksonville-based nonprofit that raises awareness and money for local nonprofits wth different events throughout the year.

Tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pbj-jax-and-norman-studios-present-national-silent-movie-day-tickets-166467090549.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2O21 @ 8:00pm (Eastern) Go behind the scenes of classic Hollywood history with Film Historian Dr. Annette Bochenek. Discover the stories and careers of three comedians crucial to the slapstick genre: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. The program will include a multimedia presentation consisting of photos, video clips, and captivating stories.

Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdOCpqT0vG9Xptg4XkYjuORuPWiugaT77.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Central) Chicago Film Archives is delighted to announce the world premiere of our new scan of the recently rediscovered 1923 silent film The First Degree at the Gene Siskel Film Center. In celebration of National Silent Movie Day, CFA will present the previously ‘lost’ ‘rural melodrama’ in partnership with the Film Center. The screening will feature live musical accompaniment from Chicago’s own Quasar Wut-Wut, who will perform an original score.

Frank Mayo stars as Sam Purdy, a banker-turned-politician-turned-sheep farmer who is repeatedly blackmailed by his jealous half-brother Will (Philo McCullough) due to their mutual affection for Mary (Australian actress Sylvia Breamer). The film was directed by Edward Sedgwick, who primarily directed westerns and comedies including Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman (1928). The First Degree was originally released on February 5, 1923 to strong reviews; Exhibitor’s Trade Review declared “There are five reels of bully entertainment in this picture, with no waste material clogging up the action, and a surprise finish that gets across with tremendous effect.”

With only 25% of American silent feature films surviving, CFA is thrilled to have uncovered this little-known feature in our own Charles Krosse collection while weathering the long pandemic summer of 2020. We are excited to reintroduce the film to today’s audiences 98 years after its original theatrical run. To learn more about CFA’s rediscovery of The First Degree, please visit our blog.

More information and tickets at: https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/first-degree.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 5:00pm (Pacific) Silent Hollywood is a by gone era, that still attracts fans in the modern age. There is something profound about the medium of silent film, where focus was centered on body language and facial expression. Actors and actresses had to physically and emotionally prepare for every movie they starred in. The public demanded perfection and it was delivered. Stars back then had to earn the right to be called a star. Silent film stars are ageless and compelling making them more real to fans of all ages.

I have a great appreciation for the art of silent film and the time period. There was a certain excitement of silent film and everyone shared in a mutual love for creating a story for us that are fans. I have a blog about silent film star “All About Rudolph Valentino” and have been blogging for seven years.

In this presentation will delve into how silent film stars were discovered, scandals that ended promising careers, those that did not make the transition to pre-code movies, and your favorite silent film memorabilia.

I hope you will come and join me for an evening of fun discussion and to celebrate National Silent Movie Day!

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/silent-film-star-discussion-tickets-153248132289

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 4:30pm (Pacific) In association the with Toronto Silent Film Festival, The Toronto Film Society is celebrating National Silent Film Day!

A college football hero-by-happenstance, hired on a whim by a capricious businessman thanks to his gridiron gumption, atrophies at his desk for 20 years and spends a mad Wednesday getting his mojo back in this remarkable mashup of slapstick and screwball starring legendary silent comedian Harold Lloyd (in his last film) and written and directed by Preston Sturges. Howard Hughes as producer adds to this curious but oddly compelling collaboration.

The films will be introduced by Chris Seguin, a long-time researcher, enthusiast, advocate and writer dedicated to classic film comedy. He’s been Comedy Programmer for The Toronto Silent Film Festival since its inception, and has contributed to numerous book and DVD/blu-ray projects, including the British Film Institute (BFI)’s restoration of Laurel & Hardy’s Atoll K, Eureka Entertainment UK’s Masters of Cinema Series: Buster Keaton Volume 3, All Day Entertainment’s Harry Langdon Lost And Found and Becoming Charley Chase, and Bear Manor Media’s CHASE! A Tribute to the Keystone Cops.

Tickets are free, with a suggested donation of $10 at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/virtual-screening-bliss-1917-and-the-sin-of-harold-diddlebock-1947-tickets-168764484115.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:30pm (Eastern) (Giovanni Pastrone, Italy 1914, 148 min., 35mm). Lavish and grand in scale, this Roman epic is one of the first feature films produced and, according to Martin Scorsese, deserves credit for many of the innovations attributed to directors Cecil B. DeMille and D. W. Griffith. During the Second Punic War, Cabiria is a young girl who, after surviving the eruption of Mt. Etna, is sold into slavery to be sacrificed the great god Moloch. In Carthage, Cabiria befriends Fulvius and the strongman Maciste, who must disguise themselves to escape from the city while avoiding Hannibal’s march across the alps and the Roman siege of Syracuse. A spectacle for the ages, Cabiria is the first popular film to use a tracking shot, referred to for years after as a “Cabiria shot.”

National Silent Movie Day was organized to celebrate the art of silent pictures around the world and will be held every year on September 29. Join us for our inaugural screening!

Ticket info at: https://www.eastman.org/event/cabiria.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:30pm - 10:00pm (Eastern)

SILENT CINEMA NIGHT @ CINÉ
Celebrating National Silent Movie Day

THE MASTERS OF SILENT COMEDY

From the very first short cinematic attractions to short comedies and dramas, some of the first cartoons, and two comic masterpieces by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Brief introductions will be made by UGA Film and Media Scholars Kate Fortmueller, Christopher Sieving and Richard Neupert.

THE FIRST CARTOONS

Animated films from EMILE COHL, WINSOR MCCAY, and early shorts featuring KOKO THE CLOWN, FELIX THE CAT, ALICE, and a previously lost BOBBY BUMPS cartoon rediscovered by UGA’s media archivists.

EARLY CINEMATIC ATTRACTIONS

Included will be an array of rare films from THE LUMIÈRE BROS., GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PATHÉ, BIOGRAPH, & LOIS WEBER. The tribute to early cinema culminates with two important films, Charlie Chaplin’s THE IMMIGRANT (1917, 30 minutes), a great social satire of the era, and Buster Keaton’s SHERLOCK JR. (1924, 45 minutes), called “the perfect silent film,” it follows a movie projectionist who dreams of being a detective as the cinema’s beam of light blurs fantasy and reality.

In observance of the inaugural National Silent Film Day celebration, Athens Ciné will present a 2-hour program of comedies, animation, dramas and experimental shorts from the Silent Film Era (1894 to 1929) in the Ciné Lab screening room on Wednesday, Sept. 29.

Rather than exhibiting the collection of early cinematic works as an example of how far film making technology has come, the curators of the Silent Movie Night show selected movies that show off the variety, imagination and self-awareness that give the era its status as an entirely unique art form.

The Silent Era was also a time when women filmmakers thrived, and Wednesday night's program includes "Eclipse," a 1913 film by the prolific Lois Weber that is credited with pioneering the split screen technique. Though it is estimated that Weber directed as many as 400 movies, only 25 were preserved.

"Looking at silent films and their history as a period that offered more professional opportunities for women in the industry might be a reason today's audiences will find the era fascinating," said Fortmueller.

Other artists' work scheduled to screen at Silent Film Night include the Lumière brothers ("Train," "Glacier"), Georges Méliès ("4 Heads," "Eclipse"), Charlie Chaplin ("The Immigrant") and Buster Keaton ("Sherlock Jr."). Among the animated titles showing is a previously lost "Bobby Bumps" short that was recently discovered in Georgia on 17.5mm film and is unique to the UGA archives.

"There's a self-aware quality to all the movies we'll be showing," said Neupert. "The people who made these were very self-conscious about what they were doing, and it comes across in a variety of playful, comedic and satirical ways."

Visit athenscine.com/silent-movie-night for tickets and show times.

SEPTEMBER 29 @ 7:30pm (Eastern) Plays at the Michigan Theater as part of the first National Silent Movie Day with an organ accompaniment from Andrew Rogers!

When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello), they're overjoyed: He's quiet, humble and pays a month's rent in advance. But his mysterious and suspicious behavior soon has them wondering if he's the killer terrorizing local blond girls. Their daughter, Daisy (June Tripp), a cocky model, is far less concerned, her attraction obvious. Her police-detective boyfriend (Malcolm Keen), in a pique of jealousy, seeks to uncover the lodger's true identity.

1927. 91 mins. Mystery/Thriller. NR.

www.michtheater.org

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Eastern) Lillian Gish in Victor Sjostrom's 1928 silent masterpiece The Wind. Lillian Gish stars in one of the artistic pinnacles of the silent era, never before shown at the Cinematheque. She plays a delicate young woman from Virginia who travels West to live with relatives on the lonely Texas plains. There the relentless wind and dust, coupled with the crudeness and brutality of the locals, drive her to near madness. As the foremost filmmaker of the Swedish silent cinema, director Victor Sjöström was lured to Hollywood where he made a handful of movies, including this masterpiece. At age 78, he starred in Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 classic Wild Strawberries.

Silent with music track. 35mm. 75 min.

Special admission $13; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $10. No passes or twofers. Free parking available. For more info and Covid restrictions, visit cia.edu/cinematheque.

Tickets at: https://ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/2179?siteToken=pB7yl95%2FqEOan41YnZNP9A%3D%3D

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Eastern) C*A*L*M Crazy About Loving Movies, a weekly cinema club, is screening 3 Silent Films for National Silent Movie Day!

There are no tickets, no registration, no charge. Just show up! Free Will Donation, donations will benefit the National Film Preservation Foundation.

The Lineup

The Scarlet Letter, 1926, Directed by Victor Sjostrom
In the 7th film adaptation of the classic story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lillian Gish gives "a landmark performance" as Hester Prynne. It was photographed by DW Griffith cameraman Hendrik Sartov, with the scenario adapted by Frances Marion. Sjostrom and Gish would team up again the next year in THE WIND.

Maciste In Hell, 1925, Directed by Guido Brignone.
Bartolomeo Pagano is Maciste, a strongman slave whom he portrayed in the earlier Italian epic CABIRIA. The Maciste character became so popular it spawned a franchise, Bartolomeo would play the character in approximately 30 films.

Peter Pan, 1924, Directed by Herbert Brenon.
One of the most popular films of the 20s, packed with an ensemble cast of silent film venerable, including Esther Ralston, Ernest Torrance, Anna May Wong, Mary Brian, and Betty Bronson, as Peter Pan, selected as J.M. Barrie's personal wish, beating out the many hopefuls wanting the role, including Mary Pickford, May MacAvoy, and Lillian Gish. Directed by Herbert Brenon, who is mostly forgotten today.

PLUS Many Short Films In Between Features, To Be Announced.

Master Schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qj_brNdQW1m_X4csKle97ljR5Ao9p4P_gcOMUsaDS50/edit?usp=sharing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Eastern) will be National Silent Movie Day! As the author of Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, as well as about 500 posts on the topic here on Travalanche, I’d like to invite you to my free illustrated Crash Course on Silent Comedy this Wednesday! The whole magilla, from Max Linder to Modern Times! Please join us!

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 4:00pm (Pacific) The silent film era spans from the invention of motion pictures in 1889 through the widespread adoption of sound recording technologies by 1930. These points of technological change provide a convenient means for demarcating this 40-year period, but it is the art and artistry of silent film practitioners that really define the form. What might be perceived as a limitation from the perspective of today was for the filmmakers of the silent era the essential condition for unparalleled expressiveness that had audiences around the world laughing, crying, dreaming and connecting just as modernity was taking shape. As we contend with our own tumultuous times, films from the silent era—be they towering epics, anarchic comedy shorts, daring dramas, surrealist visions or sober documentaries—still have the power to entertain and enlighten, to speak to us about who we were, who we are and where we might be going. 

Ensuring that this utterly unique period of film history remains alive and available to contemporary audiences is why collecting, restoring and exhibiting silent films has been an essential, mission-driven activity of the UCLA Film & Television Archive since its founding more than 50 years ago. It is also why the Archive is thrilled to join dozens of archives, theaters and other allied institutions, along with countless movie fans around the country, to celebrate the first annual National Silent Movie Day on Wednesday, September 29. In deciding how to mark this auspicious occasion for elevating awareness about silent film history, the Archive turned to one of the era’s most recognizable figures whose work has also been a particular focus of its preservation and exhibition programs over the decades: Harold Lloyd. As synonymous with silent comedy as Keaton, Chaplin or the Keystone Cops, Lloyd was a bespectacled on-screen dynamo whose blend of daredevil slapstick, youthful romance and relentless optimism captured the go-getting spirit of a striving America at the outset of the 20th century. The Archive has had the privilege of restoring many of Lloyd’s most influential shorts and features including The Freshman (1925), Girl Shy (1924), Speedy (1928), Welcome Danger (1929) and Safety Last! (1923), with its iconic image of a man—Lloyd—hanging high over a city street from the hands of a clock. 

To mark National Silent Movie Day and honor Lloyd’s legacy, the Archive presents three restored shorts, newly scanned from the Archive’s tinted 35mm preservation prints, starring Lloyd alongside two of his most famous leading partners, Bebe Daniels (Bumping into Broadway) and Mildred Davis (Get Out and Get Under, Among Those Present). (Lloyd and Davis eventually married in 1923.)

The program will be introduced by co-organizers of National Silent Movie Day, Brandee B. Cox and Steven K. Hill, with a post-screening conversation between Hill and Lloyd’s granddaughter and friend of the Archive, Suzanne Lloyd. 

For more information about National Silent Movie Day, please visit nationalsilentmovieday.org.

Special thanks to: Suzanne Lloyd, Steven K. Hill. 
Preservation funded by AFI/NEA Preservation Grants Program and The Stanford Theatre Foundation

Bumping into Broadway

U.S., 1919

Lloyd and Daniels are Broadway aspirants (he pens musical comedies, she treads the boards) who meet cute first in a boarding house, where she’s behind on the rent, and then finally in a speakeasy, where two dozen cops on a rampaging raid stand between him and a brilliantly bashful kiss. 

B&W and tinted, silent with musical accompaniment, 26 min. Director: Hal Roach. Screenwriter: Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, H.M. Walker. With: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Harry Pollard.

Preservation funded by The Packard Humanities Institute

Get Out and Get Under

U.S., 1920

Lloyd wakes from a fitful dream—his best girl (Davis) got married without him—late for his big turn in the local play and so races crosstown in his beloved convertible to make the show on time. As mishaps, misunderstandings and general mayhem mount along his route, Lloyd proves that a straight line is the funniest distance between two points. 

B&W and tinted, silent with musical accompaniment, 29 min. Director: Hal Roach. Screenwriter: H.M. Walker. With: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Fred McPherson. 

Preservation funded by The Stanford Theatre Foundation

Among Those Present

U.S., 1921

Ambition, class and social mobility are recurring themes in Lloyd’s films with no pretension on any side left un-skewered. Here, he plays a bellhop unwittingly recruited by con artists to impersonate a vacationing British Lord at the estate of a nouveau riche family. Of course, it’s the matron who’s the social climber while dad and daughter (Davis) prefer corned beef to caviar. Lloyd puts on the airs and gets the wind knocked out of him in equal measure—especially in a deliriously extended steeple chase sequence—until it all comes out and true love, once again, proves the quickest path to fortune. 

B&W and tinted, silent with musical accompaniment, 43 min. Director: Fred Newmeyer.

Screenwriter: Hal E. Roach, Sam Taylor, H.M. Walker. With: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Aggie Herring.

All films preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Musical accompaniment provided by Cliff Retallick.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Eastern)

The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts Presents NOSFERATU

Silent film accompanied by Clark Wilson on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ

An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau (Sunrise, Faust, The Last Laugh). Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws -- perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned. Nosferatu was an atypical expressionist film in that much of it was shot on location. While directors such as Lang and Lubitsch built vast forests and entire towns within the studio, Nosferatu's landscapes, villages and castle were actual locations in the Carpathian Mountains. Murnau was thus able to infuse the story with the subtle tones of nature: both pure and fresh as well as twisted and sinister.

More info and tickets at https://thehanovertheatre.org/nosferatu21.