SILENT MOVIE NIGHT, Cine

SILENT MOVIE NIGHT

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29TH AT 7:30 PM - IN THE LAB AT CINÉ

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THE MASTERS OF SILENT COMEDY:

Join us for an evening celebrating silent films, presented in the LAB.

From the very first short cinematic attractions to short comedies and dramas, some of the first cartoons, and two comic masterpieces by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

Brief introductions will be made by UGA Film and Media Scholars Kate Fortmueller, Christopher Sieving and Richard Neupert.

THE FIRST CARTOONS:

Animated films from EMILE COHL, WINSOR MCCAY, and early shorts featuring KOKO THE CLOWN, FELIX THE CAT, ALICE, and a previously lost BOBBY BUMPS cartoon rediscovered by UGA’s media archivists.

EARLY CINEMATIC ATTRACTIONS:

Included will be an array of rare films from THE LUMIÈRE BROS., GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PATHÉ, BIOGRAPH, & LOIS WEBER.

The tribute to early cinema culminates with two important films, Charlie Chaplin’s THE IMMIGRANT (1917, 30 minutes), a great social satire of the era, and Buster Keaton’s SHERLOCK JR. (1924, 45 minutes), called “the perfect silent film,” it follows a movie projectionist who dreams of being a detective as the cinema’s beam of light blurs fantasy and reality.