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  • San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2023

The Edward E. Horton Show!

Live music by Ben Model
Director
N.T. Barrows, Jay A. Howe
Cast
Edward Everett Horton

The face, that unmistakable voice … Edward Everett Horton was a staple in films from the 1930s and ‘40s—a character actor so singular he rivaled the lead actors. And in these hilarious two-reelers from the silent era, he was the lead! Produced by Harold Lloyd. No Publicity (1927, d. N.T. Barrows, 22 m.), Horse Shy (1928, d. Jay A. Howe, 22 m.), Vacation Waves (1928, d. N.T. Barrows, 22 m.)

Source Information:
DCPs from Undercrank Productions. Long unavailable and mostly forgotten, eight silent shorts starring Edward Everett Horton and produced by Harold Lloyd, survived and were preserved in the 1970s at the Library of Congress. In 2021, new digital restorations by Undercrank Productions in collaboration with the Library of Congress were made from 35mm preservation elements.

  • 66 min
  • United States
  • 1927, 1928
  • DCP
Introduction
Ben Model
Copresenter
SF Sketchfest

Live music by Ben Model

Ben Model is one of the nation’s leading silent film accompanists, performing on both piano and theatre organ. For more that 40 years, he has created and performed several hundred live scores for silent films on piano and theatre organ. Ben is a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theatre. His recorded scores can be heard on numerous DVD/Blu-Ray releases from Kino Lorber, Milestone and his own label Undercrank Productions, as well as on Turner Classic Movies. Ben’s Undercrank Productions has released many rare undiscovered gems of the silent era, including films starring Marcel Perez, Alice Howell, Baby Peggy and Marion Davies that have been out of circulation since the 1920s, as part of a co-branding arrangement with the Library of Congress. Ben is a regular accompanist at classic film festivals around the U.S.A. and internationally, and he performs at universities, museums and historic theaters. Ben is the producer and co-founder of The Silent Clowns Film Series, now celebrating it its 25th season in NYC. Ben has co-curated several silent film series for MoMA and co-curates the monthly silents series at the Cinema Arts Centre on Long Island. Ben was the first to take the silent film experience online during the COVID pandemic, launching The Silent Comedy Watch Party in mid-March of 2020. The show live-stream which Ben and film historian Steve Massa co-host from their apartments – Steve introduces silent era slapstick shorts and Ben accompanies them on his acoustic piano. The Silent Comedy Watch Party program was presented weekly on Sunday afternoons for free on YouTube throughout the pandemic in 2020-2022, and is now live-streamed on a monthly basis. Ben has composed orchestral scores for several silent comedy shorts which are performed annually by ensembles around the U.S. and Canada. In his capacity as archivist for the Ernie Kovacs collection, he has programmed three DVD box sets of Ernie Kovacs television shows and is co-editor of the new book Ernie In Kovacsland , which will be published by Fantagraphics Books in July 2023. Ben is a Visiting Professor of Film at Wesleyan University, where he teaches a course on silent film history.

Details

Director
N.T. Barrows, Jay A. Howe
Country
United States
Year
1927, 1928
Cast
Edward Everett Horton
Runtime
66 min
Source
Undercrank Productions
Format
DCP
Sun, Jul 16, 2023
11:00 AM
Castro Theatre
$18 general
$16 member
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