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Cabiria (1914) – MoMA, June 2

June 7, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Cabiria, in a new preservation by Cineteca di Bologna, MoMA et al was screened with live theatre organ accompaniment by…

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news: MoMA to add theatre organ to its silent film accompaniments

June 3, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Well, it’s happened. MoMA purchased all the necxessary hardware – keyboard, stand, organ pedals – for the Miditzer VTO (virtual…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ben model, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, silent film, theater organ, theatre organ, wurlitzer

Safety Last at the Paramount (Peekskill, NY)

May 13, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Well, last night’s show of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last (1923) was a blast. If you’re within driving distance of the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ben model, buster keaton, miditzer, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art

Lupino Lane at the Silent Clowns series

May 7, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Shown here (R) is my Miditzer set-up at the New-York Historical Society from Sunday, May 6 at the Silent Clowns…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ben model, Lupino Lane, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, peekskill, silent film, wurlitzer

DeMille’s “King of Kings”, Keaton, and “Pandora’s Box”

March 26, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Photo at the right is the beautiful console of the organ at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, which…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ben model, buster keaton, cinema arts center, DeMille, huntington, kino video, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, owego

on the radio in Owego

March 15, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Did a live radio interview on WEBO yesterday morning around 8:15am to promote the Ti-Ahwaga showing of The General on…

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The Beggar Maid, NYC

February 26, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Played for The Beggar Maid (1921, dir. H. Blache) this afternoon at the Met. The film preceded a lecture on…

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“The Phantom Carriage” – Burns Film Center

February 20, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Pleasantville NY, Feb 19 (Mon) — Played for Victor Sjöstrom’s Korkarlen (Thy Soul Shal Bear Witness, or The Phantom Carriage)…

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Squaw Man shows; Chaplin orchestral performance

February 11, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

[FYI…I have now fixed the setting on this blog that allows you to post comments so that it works now.]…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ben model, cinema arts center, DeMille, huntington, lee erwin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, miditzer, skolnick

Arbuckle, L&H and Stooges…at MoMA

February 4, 2007 Ben Model Leave a comment

Presented a program of comedy shorts at MoMA Sat Feb 3 that featured slapstick teams. We showed Fatty and Mabel…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ben model, kurzweil, Laurel and Hardy, Mabel Normand, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Roscoe Arbuckle, Three Stooges

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