Redding, CA: 3rd Annual Silent Film Festival

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ALL FILMS PROJECTED ON 'REEL' FILM
NO VIDEO!
Schedule


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Friday, October 24, 2008

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Fritz Lang's


Metropolis
(1927)
7:00 PM

"There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator."

Produced in Germany by Ufa, 1927. Directed by Fritz Lang.
Script by Lang, Thea von Harbou;
Photographed by Karl Freund, Guenther Rittau.
With Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustave Froelich.
16mm, English titles. Approx. 105 minutes.

Preceded by short: The Impossible Voyage
(1904) by Georges Melies, hand-colored with original live narration. 16mm, 22 minutes

With live accompaniment by Frederick Hodges - Piano
Advance Tickets $8:


Door $10
FestPass:

Tickets on sale by calling 530-241-7320 or 530-241-2787 (MC/VISA), will-call order (see form below), or at SCAC office, Old City Hall, 1313 Market St., Redding, CA 96001

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Saturday, October 25, 2008


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10:00 AM

SLAPSTICK MASTERS

With live accompaniment by Frederick Hodges

A selection of wonderful comedy one and two-reelers from
Buster Keaton (The Boat),
Harold Lloyd (Number Please),
The Hal Roach All-Stars (Call of the Cuckoos),
Charlie Chaplin (Behind the Screen) and
Mack Sennett (Lizzies of the Field).
16mm, approx. 110 minutes.

Advance Tickets $8:

Door $10
FestPass:

Tickets on sale by calling 530-241-7320 or 530-241-2787 (MC/VISA), will-call order (see form below), or at SCAC office, Old City Hall, 1313 Market St., Redding, CA 96001

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12:30 PM


1924
Directed by Herbert Brenon

Adapted by Willis Goldbeck from the play by Sir James M. Barrie;
Photographed by James Wong Howe.
With Betty Bronson, Esther Ralston, Ernest Torrence, Anna May Wong, Mary Brian.
Actors will read the intertitles aloud to make this show even more child-friendly.
16mm, approx 102 minutes.


With live accompaniment by Frederick Hodges - Piano
Advance Tickets $8:



Door $10
FestPass:

Tickets on sale by calling 530-241-7320 or 530-241-2787 (MC/VISA), will-call order (see form below), or at SCAC office, Old City Hall, 1313 Market St., Redding, CA 96001

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2:30 PM
ARE PARENTS PEOPLE?
1925


Directed by Mal St. Clair;
Screenplay by Alice Duer Miller and Frances Agnew;
Photographed by Bert Glennon.
With Betty Bronson, Florence Vidor, Adolphe Menjou, Lawrence Gray.
16mm, approx 60 minutes.

Preceded by two mind-boggling novelty films:
The Dancing Pig (1907) and
The Acrobatic Fly (1908).

With live accompaniment by Frederick Hodges - Piano
Advance Tickets $8:


Door $10
FestPass:


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4:00

THE MAGIC OF MELIES,
FIRST WIZARD OF THE MOVIES

Produced in France. The program begins with the English version of a 31-minute film, Le Grand Melies, from 1953, and is followed by digital projection of 16 enchanting, rare and restored original films made by Melies between 1896 and 1912, all with newly-composed musical scores. Approx. 130 minutes.





Advance Tickets $8:


Door $10
FestPass:


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7:00

Alfred Hitchcock’s
BLACKMAIL

With live accompaniment by Frederick Hodges - Piano
Produced in England, 1929. This is the original silent version of a wonderful film later re-shot by Hitchcock to become the first British talkie.
Produced by John Maxwell; Screenplay by Hitchcock, Benn Levy and Charles Bennett, based upon the play by Bennett. Photographed by Jack Cox; Edited by Emile de Ruelle. With Anny Ondra, Donald Calthrop, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Cyril Ritchard. 16mm, approximately 82 minutes.

Preceded by short: Day Dreams (England, 1928)
Directed by Ivor Montagu with Elsa Lanchester , Charles Laughton 16mm, 18 minutes.




Door $10
FestPass:

Tickets also on sale by calling 530-241-7320 (MC/VISA), mail-in order (see form below), or at SCAC office, Old City Hall, 1313 Market St., Redding, CA 96001
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Bruce Calvert
http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com