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April 27: Professor Plays Fotoplayer at Turner Classic Film Festival

 

 TCM Classic Film Festival 2015: Dream Machine behind the scenes

HAROLD LLOYD: NEW DIMENSIONS IN SIGHT AND SOUND

2018 Turner Classic Film Festival
Friday, April 27, 2018
2:30 pm

Admission:  All Pass levels are eligible for this event. No Individual tickets are available for this passholder exclusive event.


Once again Professor Rinaudo will be in grand performance at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood, but this time he won’t be cranking a projector.

Meet Joseph A. Rinaudo, My Best Friend of 50 Years

by Chaz DeSimone

Professor Rinaudo

Joe Rinaudo“PROFESSOR RINAUDO” as silent cinema aficionados call him, has been my friend for fifty years, since junior high school. Back then Joe Rinaudo was collecting 16mm silent films and would put on shows for his friends.

Today he researches, collects, restores and exhibits silent films (35mm these days) on a hand-crank projector, usually with live accompaniment of theater organ or piano, as itinerant shows to audiences in churches and halls, just like it was done 100 years ago.

Twice a year Joe brings his itinerant show to the opulent Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar, California. He is invited regularly to hand-crank his 1909 Powers Cinemagraph for special screenings at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars). Joe is also consultant and provider of restored films to the Library of Congress.

Please read the full story of Joe’s passion for silent film here.


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