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San Francisco Silent Film Festival

San Francisco Silent Film Festival

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.

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SFSFF 2009 Programs

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AELITA QUEEN OF MARS
(d. Jakov Protazanov, USSR, 1924)
Live music by Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer and Theremin, and Mark Golstein on Buchla Lightning

BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT
(d. King Vidor, United States, 1926)
Live music by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

EROTIKON
(d. Gustav Machatý, Czechoslavakia, 1929)
Live music by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
(d. Jean Epstein, France, 1928)
Live music by Stephen Horne

THE GAUCHO
(d. F. Richard Jones, United States, 1927)
Live music by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

LADY OF THE PAVEMENTS
(d. D.W. Griffith, United States, 1929)
Live music by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton

OSWALD THE LUCKY RABBIT, 1928 – 1929
Live music by Donald Sosin

SO’S YOUR OLD MAN
(d. Gregory La Cava, United States, 1926)
Live music by Philip Carli

UNDERWORLD
(d. Josef von Sternberg, United States, 1927)
Live music by Stephen Horne

WILD ROSE
(d. Sun Yu, China, 1932)
Live music by Donald Sosin

THE WIND
(d. Victor Sjöström, United States, 1928)
Live music by Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer

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