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All programs are
held at the New-York
Historical Society,
located at Central
Park West at West 77th Street.
Tickets are $10 all
adults, and $5 for seniors, kids and members.
Live piano
accompaniment by Ben
Model at all shows.
Our winter/spring 2009 line-up:
(please
note our new ticket price of $10)

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Sunday, February 22
at 2pm
Buster
Keaton in "The General"
THE GENERAL
('27) is not only Buster Keaton’s most highly praised and famous film,
but was one of his own personal favorites. So accurate that it looks
like Matthew Brady Civil War photographs come to life, Buster
nevertheless made sure that the film is as funny as it is authentic.
Extra-added attraction MOOCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
('39) has Buster revisiting the Civil War in the sound era.
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Sunday, March 8
at 2pm
Raymond Griffith in "Hands Up!"
Our second Civil War program
stars the neglected Raymond Griffith in HANDS UP! ('26),
a clock-work timed comedy of wartime intrigue, assumed identities, and
dual leading ladies, that presents Griffith in all his smarmy elegance.
The early Griffith short HIS FOOT-HILL FOLLY
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Sunday, March 29 at
2pm
Erich
von Stroheim's "Foolish Wives"
Erich von Stroheim, the “man
you love to hate” of the silent era, takes the stage with his Monte
Carlo set extravaganza, the making of which almost bankrupted the young
Universal studio. This drama about a completely amoral con man became a
smash hit, but made von Stroheim a life-long enemy in the person of
producer Irving Thalberg.
Click here to watch the episode
of Kevin Brownlow's "Hollywood"
on von Stroheim
**this
film recently added to the National Film Registry**
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Sunday, April 5
at 2pm
W.C. Fields in "So's Your Old
Man"
When anyone thinks of W.C.
Fields they immediately hear his nasal drawl and muttered asides, but
Fields made his first film in 1915 and we’re happy to present one of
his rare silents. SO’S
YOUR OLD MAN ('26) w as filmed at Paramount’s Long Island Studio
(today’s Kaufman-Astoria Studio) and contains his famous Ziegfeld
Follies golf routine. Rounding out the bill is Buster Keaton’s house
problems in ONE
WEEK ('20).
**both
films recently added to the National Film Registry**
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Sunday, April 19
at 2pm
Celebrating Chaplin's 120th
birthday!
Essanay shorts
This 120th
Chaplin birthday celebration focuses on his second year in films at
Essanay in 1915. Not content to have his screen character just be a
figure of fun, today’s bill of A NIGHT OUT, THE
CHAMPION, THE TRAMP and WORK,
illustrates Charlie’s development into a comic underdog, hero, and
lover. Chaplin’s inspiration and hard work produced films that remain
fresh and funny for audiences of all ages.
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from this past spring and more!

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