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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

Reading Up on Iris Barry and MoMA Film’s Beginnings

October 11, 2019 Ben Model 1 Comment

This summer, I read two books, inspired by my being booked for a film series that will run at MoMA…

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Posted in: Silent Comedy Film History, silent film accompaniment Filed under: iris barry, MoMA

Finding a Chestnut in a Haystack

September 21, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

The Mack Sennett films released through Paramount in the late ‘teens give you the impression that an effort was underway…

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Posted in: Silent Comedy Film History Filed under: cruel and unusual comedy, MoMA, National Film Preservation Fund

The Sounds of the Silents — Theatre Organ Accompaniment in NYC, part 3

July 5, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

When I meet people from other parts of the country and tell them I’m a silent film accompanist , they…

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Posted in: silent film accompaniment, Theatre Organ Filed under: Hauptwerk, miditzer, MoMA

Playing The Audience In To A Film

June 23, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

I don’t remember how or when I started doing this, but I’m certain it’s something I picked up or learned…

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Posted in: film scoring, silent film accompaniment Filed under: lee erwin, MoMA

“Let’s Go In to a Picture Show” – popular songs about silent movies

January 18, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

I first heard about this CD project during the Arbuckle retrospective I co-curated for MoMA in 2006 with Ron Magliozzi,…

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Posted in: film festivals, MoMA, Sheet Music Filed under: Giornate del Cinema Muto, Harbinger Records, MoMA, Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Ron Magliozzi, sheet music
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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
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Before There Was Parkour, There Was…Douglas Fairbanks

November 1, 2018 Ben Model Leave a comment

There is no deeply dramatic reason for Douglas Fairbanks to leap over the benches and fences or climb the trees…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: douglas fairbanks, First Families of Virginia, MoMA, parkour

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  • ep. 38: scoring for scenes that suggest or specify a piece of music, and scoring a film from 1948
  • ep. 37: Mostly Lost, Keaton’s The Cameraman and The General, an electric organ and Laurel & Hardy
  • ep. 36: scoring Robin Hood and a 1927 Carmen, using the orchestral and cartoony sounds of a theatre organ, more live-streaming
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