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Silent Film Festival at Old City Hall
October 24 & 25, 2008

Tickets:
$8  advance purchase
$10 door
$35 fest pass - see all of them at this discounted rate!
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    530-241-7320
    530-241-2787 (visa/mc accepted)
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    2. mail or fax
walk-in:
    SCAC Administration Office
    Old City Hall Arts Center
    1313 Market Street
    Redding, CA 96001

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Fritz Lang's
METROPOLIS (1927)
Friday, October 24, 2008
7:00 pm

With live accompaniment
by Frederick Hodges - Piano

"There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator."

Produced in Germany by Ufa, 1927.
Directed by Fritz Lang.
Script by Lang, Thea von Harbou;
Photographed by Karl Freund, Guenther Rittau.
With Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustave Froelich.
16mm, English titles. Approx. 105 minutes.

Preceded by short:
The Impossible Voyage
(1904) by Georges Melies,
hand-colored with original live narration.
16mm, 22 minutes

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SLAPSTICK MASTERS
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am

With live accompaniment
by Frederick Hodges - Piano

A selection of wonderful comedy one- and two-reelers from:

Buster Keaton (The Boat),
Harold Lloyd (Number Please),
The Hal Roach All-Stars (Call of the Cuckoos),
Charlie Chaplin (Behind the Screen) and
Monty Banks (Chasing Choo-Choos).
16mm, approx. 110 minutes.

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James M. Barrie's
Peter Pan (1924)
Saturday, October 25, 2008
12:30 pm

With live accompaniment
by Frederick Hodges - Piano

Directed by Herbert Brenon
Adapted by Willis Goldbeck
From the play by Sir James M. Barrie;
Photographed by James Wong Howe.
with Betty Bronson, Esther Ralston, Ernest Torrence, Anna May Wong, Mary Brian.
16mm, approx 102 minutes

Actors will read the intertitles aloud to make this show even more child-friendly.

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ARE PARENTS PEOPLE? (1925)
Saturday, October 25, 2008
2:30 pm

With live accompaniment
by Frederick Hodges - Piano

Directed by Mal St. Clair;
Screenplay by:  Alice Duer Miller
    and Frances Agnew;
Photographed by: Bert Glennon.
with: Betty Bronson, Florence Vidor,
    Adolphe Menjou, Lawrence Gray.
16mm, approx 60 minutes.

Preceded by two mind-boggling novelty films:
The Dancing Pig (1907) and
The Acrobatic Fly (1908)

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THE MAGIC OF MELIES, FIRST WIZARD OF THE MOVIES
Saturday, October 25, 2008
4:00 pm

Produced in France. The program begins with the English version of a 31-minute film, Le Grand Melies, from 1953, and is followed by digital projection of 16 enchanting, rare and restored original films made by Melies between 1896 and 1912, all with newly-composed musical scores.
Approx. 130 minutes.

Featuring slight-of-hand entertainment by Ron Giesecke!

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BLACKMAIL
October 25, 2008
7:00 pm

Produced in England, 1929. This is the original silent version of a wonderful film later re-shot by Hitchcock to become the first British talkie.

Produced by John Maxwell
Screenplay by Hitchcock, Benn Levy
and Charles Bennett
Based upon the play by Bennett.
Photographed by Jack Cox
Edited by Emile de Ruelle
with Anny Ondra, Donald Calthrop, John Longden,
Sara Allgood, Cyril Ritchard.
16mm, approximately 82 minutes.

Preceded by short
Day Dreams (England, 1928)

Directed by Ivor Montagu
with Elsa Lanchester , Charles Laughton
16mm, 18 minutes

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