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ep. 38: scoring for scenes that suggest or specify a piece of music, and scoring a film from 1948

July 10, 2020 Ben Model 2 Comments

On this episode Ben talks about meeting an audience’s expectations of a score when a certain piece of music or…

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Posted in: Podcast Filed under: Arthur Kleiner, buster keaton, cinema arts centre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, rudolph valentino

ep. 37: Mostly Lost, Keaton’s The Cameraman and The General, an electric organ and Laurel & Hardy

June 24, 2020 Ben Model 3 Comments

On this episode Ben talks about: the annual Mostly Lost film identification workshop at the Library of Congress, currently postponed…

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Posted in: Podcast Filed under: cinema arts centre, douglas fairbanks, MoMA, william s. hart

ep. 36: scoring Robin Hood and a 1927 Carmen, using the orchestral and cartoony sounds of a theatre organ, more live-streaming

June 10, 2020 Ben Model 1 Comment

On this episode Ben talks about: using music an audience may or may not expect to hear during a film…

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Posted in: Podcast Filed under: cinema arts centre, douglas fairbanks, MoMA, william s. hart

ep. 35: Pottery at the Met, Behind the Door in Nebraska, Eisenstein in Bklyn, Clair on Long Island, plus FAQ

May 27, 2020 Ben Model Leave a comment

On this episode, Ben Model talks with co-host Kerr Lockhart talk about a cancelled gig at the Metropolitan Museum of…

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Posted in: Podcast Filed under: cinema arts centre, Eisenstein, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, St. Francis College

Improvising A Silent Film Score: Now, and Then

March 14, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

There was no one way all film was accompanied musically during the silent film era. There was a range. A…

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Posted in: MoMA, silent film accompaniment Filed under: cinema arts centre

Newsday: “Silent Films Amass a Quiet Following”

January 4, 2012 Ben Model Leave a comment

From today’s Newsday: Silent films amass a quiet following January 3, 2012 by JIM MERRITT. Special to Newsday Tonight’s Keaton…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ben model, cinema arts centre, miditzer, silent film

Newsday’s video on Cinema Arts Center’s “Anything But Silent” series

December 7, 2011 Ben Model Leave a comment

Newsday sent a videographer, as well as a reporter and a (still) photographer to last night’s show.  The video piece…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cinema arts centre, huntington, long island, silent film, theatre organ

L&H, Keaton and Lloyd Hamilton

December 9, 2009 Ben Model Leave a comment

Looks like a deleted scene from Playtime, doesn’t it? I’m sitting in the Bauhaus lounge at MoMA. I’m early for…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: buster keaton, cinema arts centre, Lloyd Hamilton, steamboat bill jr.

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  • ep. 45: Home Video Releases, Kickstarters, Marion Davies, Wesleyan and MoMA
  • ep. 08 (re-posted): “A Trip to the Moon” in Tromsø, an Organ in Oslo, live comedy show “Everybody Gets Cake”, Marcel Perez
  • ep. 07 (re-posted): News From the Road, “Peter Pan”, Hitchcock’s “Blackmail”, physical comedy show “Everybody Gets Cake”
  • ep. 44: Exploring the Music of “City Lights”…From Inside the Score
  • ep. 06 (re-posted): Re-Starting the Podcast, Recap of 2014, “The Spice of the Program”, Marcel Perez on DVD, Arthur Kleiner, SFSMA
  • ep. 05 (re-posted): Marathon of shows, Music for Doug and Mary, Organ Benches and Piano Lights
  • ep. 04 (re-posted): “Accidentally Preserved” Kickstarter, getting clues from film intros, return to Boise
  • ep. 03 (re-posted): Two Silent Griffiths (Raymond and D.W.), Music for Weddings and Funerals, DVDs, Alternate Scores
  • ep. 02 (re-posted): Unidentified films, DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments”, YouTube ethics, The Crowd, and more

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