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Dedicated to preserving the experience of seeing silent comedy film
updated -- February 15, 2008
The Silent Clowns Film Series is proud to announce its Winter/Spring 2008 programming -- five great shows of popular classics and intriguing rarities!! Click on the Now Showing button on the left to see a detailed list of our schedule of shows featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon, Buster Keaton, Tyler Brooke, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy and more.
If you haven't already become a member, click at the left on Join Us! to become a "Friend of the Silent Clowns". We are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit and your contribution is 100% tax-deductible.
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 October 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), JP Morgan Chase, the James A. Macdonald Foundation, the Edward Handelman Fund, and by support from Elmo USA.
