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Dedicated to preserving the experience of seeing silent comedy film

 

updated -- February 6, 2009

The winter/spring 2009 Silent Clowns Film Series programming begins on Sunday February 22nd and runs through Sunday April 19th.  Silent comedy icons Keaton and Chaplin bookend our season of five great programs, curated and projected by Bruce Lawton and with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model.  And don't forget to hold on to your ticket stubs for the raffle we hold at each show!

We encourage those of you who attend our shows or who want to support us finanically to make a donation and become a Friend of the Silent Clowns Film Series. We are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and your contribution is 100% tax-deductible.  Click on Join Us! (at the left) to make a contribution securely online with a credit card or PayPal or to print out a donation form that you can mail in with a check.

The Silent Clowns Film Series, New York's longest-running regularly-scheduled showcase for classic silent film comedy, screens the movies of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Lloyd and more.  Every show features live musical accompaniment by Ben Model and introduction and Q&A with film historian Bruce Lawton.  Programs are presented on alternating Sunday afternoons from September through April every year, and are geared to the classic film fan as well as to families.

The Silent Clowns Film Series holds its shows at The New-York Historical Society, located at 170 Central Park West (between W. 76th and W. 77th Streets), near the Natural History Museum. For more information about the theater and tickets click on the Theater button.

The Silent Clowns Film Series is dedicated to the memory of Walter Kerr, whose landmark book, "The Silent Clowns," was the inspiration for our series (and its name), as well as to the memory of William K. Everson, Lee Erwin, David Gill, Herb Graff, Eric James, Eleanor Keaton, Paul Killiam, Don Malkames, Warren Rothenberger and John Rogers...and dreams that survive.

 

This film series is a production of Silent Cinema Presentations, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.  Silent Cinema Presentations is supported by a generous grant from the Ira M. Resnick Foundation, and by funding from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the James A. Macdonald Foundation, the Edward Handelman Fund, and by support from Elmo USA.