Evening of Classic Silent Comedies
Mar. 5, 2016

This show was a tremendous success…

proving our passion and efforts to preserve Silent Cinema are fully worthwhile. The audience of no less than 100 were primarily 30- and 40-year-old “kids” who laughed and applauded as if seeing a moving picture for the first time. Many of them were, in fact…as black-and-white and silent, except for Dean Mora’s live piano score.


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FAMOUS PLAYERS ORCHESTRA

Presents an Evening of

Classic Comedies

Hand-Cranked Classic Silent Film Comedies
With Live Musical Accompaniment

Saturday March 5th, 2016
7:00 pm

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35 millimeter film projected by Joe Rinaudo on an original hand-cranked Power’s 1909 Cameragraph Model 6 Motion Picture Machine.
Live musical accompaniment featuring Dean Mora on piano.

Program Includes:
“The Dancing Pig” (1907) Pathe
“The Acrobatic Fly” (1910) Comet Films
“It’s a Gift” (1923) Starring Snub Pollard
“The Rink” (1916) Starring Charlie Chaplin
“The Grocery Clerk” (1920) Starring Larry Semon
“Cops” (1922) Starring Buster Keaton

Date:
Saturday, March 5th, 2016
Doors open at 6:15 pm
Show starts at 7:00 pm

Location: 
Christ Lutheran Church
2400 W. Burbank Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91506
(Southeast corner of Burbank Bl. & Buena Vista St.)

Admission is $10.00 (suggested donation)

Show will run approx. 125 minutes with a short intermission. Concessions for sale.

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All proceeds to benefit Famous Players Orchestra, a 501(c)3 non profit organization, whose mission is dedicated to performing and recording the historic film music used by movie theater orchestras during the silent era.  Please visit our website at:

www.fporchestra.org.

Thank you for your support. Enjoy the show!

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We had a great show at the C.V. Historical Society’s Christmas party. Standing room only. There were young kids there watching the silent films. One little girl laughed hysterically throughout most of the films. That made the show more worthwhile for me because she probably had never been to a silent film show and that’s what it’s all about! Dean Mora did a tremendous job on the piano, as usual, and Gary Gibson had fun with the glass lantern slide shows in between each film. All in all it’s always a great show when young people (teenagers and grade school kids alike) can come, experience and really enjoy such a show.

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