Event: Silent Film Series with Theater Organist Ben Model
hosted by the Brooklyn Chapter, AGO

Place: The Brooklyn Baptist Temple, 360 Schermerhorn St. At Third
Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217

Date: October 10, 2009

Time: 7:00 pm (film length 82 minutes)

Cost: $10 General Admission; $5 Seniors/Students

Website: www.brooklynago.org

 The Brooklyn Chapter of the American Guild of Organists announces
a showing of a series of silent films, accompanied by theater organist Ben
Model. This series highlights the early relationship between the organ and film
in the days before ‘talkies’ entered the American culture. The series begins on
Saturday October 10, 2009, with a showing of The Cat and the Canary (1927) at the Brooklyn Baptist Temple, 360 Schermerhorn St.
in downtown Brooklyn. The admission charge is $10, or $5 for
seniors/students.

The Cat and the Canary,
starring Laura LaPlante and Arthur Edmund Carew, is a film which was very
popular on its first release, and was re-made five times by Hollywood. This
slightly comedic horror film is a perfect way to get ready for Halloween. The
organ of the Baptist Temple, a 1918 instrument by JW Steere & Son, dates
exactly to the era of silent movies, making it the perfect instrument for this
series.

For the past 25 years Ben Model has served as resident silent film
accompanist for The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. He has played
for silents in many other venues around the U.S., has recorded numerous scores
for silent film DVDs, and produces The Silent Clowns Film Series with film
historian Bruce Lawton. For more on Ben, visit his website: www.silentfilmmusic.com

Future films in the series will be:

December 12, 2009, 7:30 pm: An Evening of Charlie Chaplin
Shorts

February 13, 2010, 7:00 pm: The Ten Commandments (CB deMille, 1923)

April 10, 2010, 7:00 pm: The Mark of Zorro (Douglas Fairbanks, 1920)

June 12, 2010, 8:00 pm: My Best Girl (Mary
Pickford, 1927)

The public is invited to attend this series.

Contact: Gregory Eaton, St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church,
(718) 875-6960 – church; (212) 924-4686 – home