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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.
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silent
clowns, walter kerr, buster keaton, charlie chaplin, harold lloyd,
harry langdon, circus, film music, theater organ, theatre organ,
wurlitzer, ben model, phil carli, philip carli, donald sosin, david
drazin, dennis james, robert israel, jon mirsalis, stuart oderman,
steve sterner, bruce lawton, steve massa, marlene weisman abadi, mont
alto orchestra, alloy orchestra, bqe project, kevin brownlow, david
robinson, pordenone, sacile, bologna, silent movie, rowan atkinson,
slapstick, clowns, 16mm film, nitrate, kodascope, richard roberts,
brent walker, mack sennett, mabel normand, custard pie, silent
clowns, walter kerr, buster keaton, charlie chaplin,
harold lloyd, harry langdon, circus, film music, theater organ, theatre
organ, wurlitzer, ben model, phil carli, philip carli, donald sosin,
david drazin, dennis james, robert israel, jon mirsalis, stuart
oderman, steve sterner, bruce lawton, steve massa, marlene weisman
abadi, mont alto orchestra, alloy orchestra, bqe project, kevin
brownlow, david robinson, pordenone, sacile, bologna, silent movie,
rowan atkinson, slapstick, clowns, 16mm film, nitrate, kodascope,
richard roberts, brent walker, mack sennett, mabel normand, custard
pie, silent clowns, walter kerr, buster keaton, charlie chaplin,
harold lloyd, harry langdon, circus, film music, theater organ, theatre
organ, wurlitzer, ben model, phil carli, philip carli, donald sosin,
david drazin, dennis james, robert israel, jon mirsalis, stuart
oderman, steve sterner, bruce lawton, steve massa, marlene weisman
abadi, mont alto orchestra, alloy orchestra, bqe project, kevin
brownlow, david robinson, pordenone, sacile, bologna, silent movie,
rowan atkinson, slapstick, clowns, 16mm film, nitrate, kodascope,
richard roberts, brent walker, mack sennett, mabel normand, custard
pie, |