Summer Cinema 2011
Dedicated to series founders Ted Larson and Rusty Casselton
Monday Evenings • 7:30 p.m.
Pre-show Organ Music • 7:15 p.m.
Weld Hall, Glasrud Auditorium
$4 per film • Tickets available at the door
Summer Cinema 2011, in conjunction with MSUM Film Studies, features retrospective showings of some of Hollywood’s greatest stars in their best-loved and most popular motion pictures, as well as rare, seldom-seen and "lost" films. The "silents" are accompanied by pipe-organ music performed by Red River Chapter members of the American Theatre Organ Society, chartered in the FM area in 1965. The Red River Chapter owns the organ (on permanent loan to MSUM) and maintains it. It is one of five theater pipe organs installed at colleges and universities in the nation. Chapter members who perform pre-show music and scores for the silent films include Lance Johnson, Dave Knudtson, Tyler Engberg and Steve Eneboe. In the tradition of Hollywood past, each of our vintage movie programs will be preceded by a short subject film. Each program runs about two hours.
Following our final showing, treats will be served in the hallway.
Film titles are subject to change without notice.
Introductions to the films are provided by faculty members of MSUM, Concordia College and the University of North Dakota.
Series Director
Lance Johnson
Program Research
Tom Brandeau
Dave Knudtson
Projectionist Consultant
Dave Knudtson
House Manager
Marlowe Kulish
Monday, June 13
Jackie Coogan and Charles Chaplin
The Kid (1921; 68 minutes)
Silent Comedy Drama
Directed by Charles Chaplin
As she leaves the charity hospital and passes a church wedding, Edna deposits her new baby with a pleading note in a limousine and goes off to commit suicide. The limo is stolen by thieves who dump the baby by a garbage can. Charlie the Tramp finds the baby and makes a home for him. Five years later Edna has become an opera star but does charity work for slum youngsters in hope of finding her boy. A doctor called by Edna discovers the note with the truth about the Kid and reports it to the authorities who come to take him away from Charlie. Before he arrives at the Orphan Asylum Charlie steals him back and takes him to a flophouse. The proprietor reads of a reward for the Kid and takes him to Edna. Charlie is later awakened by a kind policeman who reunites him with the Kid at Edna’s mansion.
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Monday, June 27
Laurel & Hardy Shorts
Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular comedy teams of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. Composed of thin, English-born Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy (1892–1957) they became well-known during the late 1920s to the mid-1940s for their work in motion pictures; the team also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe. Among their most popular and successful films were the features Sons of the Desert, Way Out West, and Block-Heads, and the shorts Big Business, Liberty, and their Academy Award-winning short, The Music Box.
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Monday, July 11
Douglas Fairbanks
The Thief of Bagdad (1924; 155 minutes)
Silent Adventure
Directed by Raoul Walsh
A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdad’s daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules.
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Monday, July 25
Buster Keaton
The Cameraman (1928; 69 minutes)
Silent Dramatic Comedy
Directed by Buster Keaton
After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work.
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