Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:02 pm
One more festival to add:
In New Hampshire, we're planning the next "Mirthquake" vintage film festival to run from Thursday, Oct. 15 through Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 in Manchester and nearby towns. (That's the weekend after Columbus Day weekend.) Program still in development but it'll be four days of film, much of it silent and with live music, including a few programs in historic local movie houses.
Extras may include a tour of St. Anselm College in Goffstown, where silent film star Raymond Griffith attended prep school (plus some Raymond Griffith films); maybe a trek to the spot on the Connecticut River where D.W. Griffith filmed the ice floe sequence from 'Way Down East' (and a screening of this classic); and possibly the repremiere of 'The Wishing Seat,' a long-lost 1913 Allan Dwan one-reeler that was discovered this past spring in the attic of the Wilton (NH) Town Hall Theatre, where they've been showing film since 1912.
More to come...
Jeff Rapsis