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Betty Balfour

Looking for Squibs

November 13, 2018 Ben Model Leave a comment

Two main elements in film programming, I’ve found, are knowing the films and knowing where prints of them are. The…

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Posted in: MoMA, Silent Comedy International, silent film accompaniment Filed under: Betty Balfour, Dave kehr, funny ladies, George Eastman Museum, MoMA, NYU Cinema Studies, silent comedy international, steve massa, william K. everson
Mary Pickford Rosita

The film Mary Pickford didn’t want you to see – now restored by MoMA

May 31, 2018 Ben Model Leave a comment

Lubitsch-Directed “Rosita” (1923) Is On Screens Again After 95 Years and Worth Seeing I was on the fence about attending…

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Posted in: film festivals, Mary Pickford, MoMA Filed under: cue sheet, Dave kehr, douglas fairbanks, eileen bowser, Ernst Lubitsch, Gillian Anderson, Mary Pickford, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art

coming in January 2017: 3 special episodes of the podcast

December 28, 2016 Ben Model Leave a comment

coming in January 2017: 3 special episodes of the podcast This mini-episode is more of a trailer of sorts for…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Accidentally Preserved, ben model, cruel and unusual comedy, Dave kehr, eileen bowser, MoMA, Ron Magliozzi, silent film accompaniment, slapstick, Undercrank Productions

Cruel & Unusual: shows #1 – #4

May 31, 2009 Ben Model Leave a comment

Our first four Cruel and Unusual Comedy shows at MoMA have gone extremely well. We’ve had great houses – I’d…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ben model, cruel and unusual comedy, Dave kehr, eileen bowser, Lupino Lane, MoMA, Roscoe Arbuckle

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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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