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A collection of news and information pertaining to silent era films.
Copyright © 2008 by Carl Bennett. All Rights Reserved.
Silent Film in Kansas City, Missouri
The Kansas City Public Library presents a series of silent films the way the filmmakers intended: with live musical performances accompanying each frame. Local composer Jeffrey Ruckma leads the Spoonbender Consort, playing his own unique scores with eclectic instrumentation arranged for seldom seen documentary and dramatic films from the Silent Era. The scores for this program range from sets for piano with winds and strings to a careening jazz quartet, in addition to folk instrumentation and an eclectic arrangement featuring cello-accompanied dulcimers, toy pianos, oboe, and bells.
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Saturday, 15 March 2008
3:30 PM
The Lumière Brothers, plus Selected Shorts
Among the earliest filmmakers, Auguste and Louis Lumière launched the commercial film industry with screenings of their actualités — short vignettes of daily activities that are considered the first documentaries. Included in this program is early footage filmed by literary icon Zora Neale Hurston, an experimental film by visionary artist Marcel Duchamp, and the Dutch documentary titled Rain (1929) — considered by some among the best film-poems.
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Admission is FREE. Call 816-701-3407 to indicate your interest in attending or RSVP online. Free parking is available in the Library District Parking Garage at 10th and Baltimore.
Kansas City Public Library
14 West 10th Street
Kansas City, Missouri
816-701-3407
www.kclibrary.org
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