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Dedicated to preserving the experience of seeing silent comedy film

*updated: September 21, 2009*

The Silent Clowns Film Series, New York City'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 historians Bruce Lawton and Steve Massa.  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. 
 

 

We are happy to announce at last that we have secured a venue for the Silent Clowns Film Series for the Fall/Winter 2009 season -- The Arclight Theatre.  The Arclight Theatre is a charming, atmospheric 100-seat theater created in the former basement-level chapel space of a 1917 church on West 71st Street, just off Broadway.  Our October and November programs will be presented at the Arclight, and our December showing will be held at the Museum of the City of New York.  For more theatre details and ticket pricine click on theater/tkts at left.

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We encourage those of you who attend our shows or who want to support us financially 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 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.