Here are some brief bits of news - offered on a regular basis - from and about the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and the world of silent film:
1) Looking for spine-tingling entertainment this coming Halloween? Enjoy silent films with live musical accompaniment? If so, then check out the special event the San Francisco Symphony has lined-up for October 31. On Halloween night, the San Francisco Symphony will present the newly restored version of the 1920 silent film, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. The film will be accompanied by Dennis James on the Ruffatti Organ, along with Mark Goldstein and Todd Manley on percussion. The evening's concert screening also features the Buster Keaton short, The Haunted House (1921).
2) David Kiehn is a local film historian with a knack for uncovering little known and fascinating aspects of local film history. He is one of the founders of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, the author of Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company (Farwell Books), and is involved in recent local efforts to help preserve a historic sponsored film, Twin Peaks Tunnel (1917). Kiehn's research also led to the discovery earlier this year that the well known Miles Brothers’ film, A Trip Down Market Street, was not made in 1905 – as everyone had believed (including the Library of Congress) – but in 1906, just days before the San Francisco earthquake. Kiehn pinned down the date through a combination of historical research and an examination of little noticed details in the film itself.
Kiehn’s remarkable detective work is the subject of a segment on 60 Minutes which airs tonight, October 16th, at 7 pm on CBS. DON'T MISS IT. Here is a snapshot of Kiehn - speaking with Kevin Brownlow - which was taken at the most recent San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
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