Ben Model, silent film composer accompanist historian

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  • Our Hospitality; score for The Iron Mule with Al St. John; disc bonus item. 
  • Sherlock Holmes, starring John Barrymore. 
  • New transfer of the George Eastman House 35mm restoration; Miditzer theatre organ score.  Release date: July 2009.
  • Edison: the Invention of the Movies
    Deluxe, comprehensive four-disc set of films produced by the Thomas Edison studios.  Scores for over 30 titles by Ben Model
  • Reel Baseball - DVD set with two features; shorts will have scores by Ben Model -- Felix the Cat in Felix Saves the Day, the Rinky Dinks in Happy Days, and the last 15 mins of the Edison feature One Touch of Nature.
  • Haldane of the Secret Service, starring and directed by Harry Houdini.  Part of box set of Houdini films.  Digital orchestral score.
All Day Entertainment
AllDay Entertainment
  • Becoming Charley Chase
    4-disc set of Charley Chase shorts, including early Keystone shorts, films Chase directed, and the early "Jimmy Jump" films.  Recorded scores on piano and theatre organ for a dozen or so titles, and several commentary tracks.
  • Harry Langdon: Lost and Found
    recorded several commentary tracks for this multi-disc set of Langdon films.
  • American Slapstick: volume 2
    30 shorts on 3 discs.  Recorded scores on piano and theatre organ for 9 shorts on the set.
  • American Slapstick: volume 1
    17 slapstick comedies on 3 discs.  Recorded scores on piano for 15 of the titles.
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  • Phantom of the Opera: Deluxe Edition, organ score for original 1925 version of the film, on a 4-disc set. 
  • The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith.  Organ score.
  • Festival of Silent Comedy, Vol's 1-6
    comedy shorts compilations featuring Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Chase, Our Gang, Fox kids, Al Christie studios, Hal Roach studios, and more...
  • Our Gang, Vol's 1-3
  • The Vagabond Prince, with H.B. Warner
  • Grandma's Boy, with Harold Lloyd
  • The Headless Horseman, with Will Rogers
  • My Boy, with Jackie Coogan
  • Raggedy Rose and The Nickel Hopper, with Mabel Normand
  • Ella Cinders, with Colleen Moore
  • The Silent Man, with William S. Hart
  • How Molly Malone Made Good
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  • Sand, with William S. Hart
  • The Extra Girl, with Mabel Normand
  • Flaming Flappers - 1920's compilation
  • What Happened to Rosa, with Mabel Normand
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  • Cut to the Chase:
    The Charley Chase Classic Comedy Collection
    Two-disc set of shorts, with scores for The Uneasy Three, Dog Shy and Be Your Age by Ben Model (release on hold, but these are run on TCM occasionally...)