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Silent Film in Detroit, Michigan

The Detroit Film Theater of the Detroit Institute of Arts presents three silent-film programs in conjunction with the DIA’s exhibit “Life’s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists’ Brush with Leisure, 1895–1925.” The films will be shown on three Saturday afternoons in March and April 2008. They include the following:

Saturday, 15 March 2008
4:00 PM
The Matrimaniac (1916)
directed by Paul Powell
starring Douglas Fairbanks
with
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
directed by John Emerson
starring Douglas Fairbanks
and
Down to Earth (1917)
directed by John Emerson
starring Douglas Fairbanks
Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.

Saturday, 22 March 2008
4:00 PM
Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
directed by D.W. Griffith
starring W.C. Fields and Carol Dempster
Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.

Saturday, 5 April 2008
4:00 PM
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
directed by Marshall Neilan
starring Mary Pickford
Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.

Saturday, 12 April 2008
4:00 PM
The Freshman (1925)
starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.

Saturday, 19 April 2008
4:00 PM
Day Dreams (1922)
starring Buster Keaton
with
The Boat (1921)
starring Buster Keaton
The Balloonatic (1923)
starring Buster Keaton
and
One Week (1920)
starring Buster Keaton
Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.

For more information, call 313-833-4005 or visit www.dia.org/dft.

Detroit Film Theater
Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202
313-833-4005
www.dia.org/dft
 
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