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Friday, Oct. 19 All-Festival Pass $45 BEST DEAL! 6pm Laugh Show - Includes: • Your Darn Tootin' - Laurel & $8 pre-sale per film Hardy $10 per film at the door • The Rink - Charlie Chaplin $2 for children 12 & • The Boat - Buster Keaton under • Frogland - (a French animated puppet film) *Laugh Show includes four short 8pm Greed - shot on location in features & is considered one film San Francisco, Oakland, Iowa Hill

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Shasta County Arts Council Upcoming Events at Shasta County Arts Council Old City Hall, 1313 Market Street Dick Turner Concert - 4pm November 4 Thom Berry’s Musical Ventures - 8pm November 16 Redding, CA 96001 second saturday Art Night - 5pm-8pm November 10, December 8 530-241-7320 ArtsMart at the Shasta Mall- 10am-9pm, November 3 Annual Holiday Gift Show at Old City Hall - November 8-December 24

ShastaArtsCouncil.org Page 2 Page 15 ShastaArtsCouncil.org David Shepard Brings Film Festival to Chico in March 2013 Festival made possible by ... Don’t Miss it! David Shepard & Associate Director Peter Hogue

Chico’s Silent Film Festival March 2013 David Shepard of Blackhawk Films is Details coming soon at ... renowned world-wide for film preservation. www.FriendsoftheArtsUpstate.org Shepard, who lives in Hat Creek, began A State/Local Partner to the California Arts Council restoring films when he joined the American Film Institute in 1968 as one of their first staff members. In 1987, he bought the Blackhawk Films library. This is the seventh time Shepard has shared his treasures with Redding and the Shasta Special Thanks to our Hotel Sponsor! County Arts Council. Thank you, David!

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ShastaArtsCouncil.org Page 14 Page 3 ShastaArtsCouncil.org by Frederick Hodges Music MAIN FEATURE

7:30pm Saturday, Oct. 20 D.W. Griffith’s Orphans of the Storm Starring ...

D. W. Griffith, “the father of American film,” was also the first grand master of movie melodrama, and this epic extravaganza from 1921 is arguably the wildest and most expansive of his forays into that pulse-pounding realm, in a career that also included (1914), Intolerance (1915), (1919), and (1920). The orphans in this case are two imperiled young women played by the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, and the storm is Hailed by the press as one of the best jazz and ragtime pianists in the world, the and all the historical turmoil that goes with it. The film is Frederick Hodges is sought after by today’s foremost orchestras, festivals, based on a sensationalistic stage play (with perhaps a little of Dickens’ A Tale of conductors, and collaborative musicians. His artistry, virtuosity and charisma Two Cities thrown in for good measure), but Griffiths opens it up for large scale have brought him to the world’s most renowned stages, leaving audiences cinematic flourishes and gives free rein to a full array of melodramatic excesses around the globe captivated. – revolution, plagues, evil aristocrats, mob violence, kidnapping & false imprisonment, a blind “orphan,” rampant cruelty and chronic lasciviousness. Here, writes the critic Billy Stevenson, “…the Revolution becomes a giant, Classically trained as a concert pianist, Frederick Hodges has established a writhing, orgiastic dance, ultimately continuous with the aristocratic revels that it reputation as a truly versatile artist equally sought after as soloist, singer, guest was intended to oppose….” With as Danton, Sidney Herbert as soloist with the California Pops Orchestra, and dance band pianist with Don Robespierre, Lucille LaVerne as the fearsome La Frochard, and Joseph Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. His extensive repertoire includes all the Schildkraut as the benevolent Chevalier de Vaudrey). Filmed mostly at Griffiths’ best ragtime, stride, and novelty piano solo pieces. He has appeared on 14-acre studio in Mamaroneck, New York. national television, radio, and in several Hollywood films. He is also a much sought-after silent film accompanist for both live performances and on DVD. He performs regularly at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.

Frederick has participated in many prestigious festivals including in 1921 epic extravaganza Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the WestCoast Ragtime Festival, The Blind Boone by D.W. Griffith Festival in Columbia Missouri, the Templeton Ragtime Festival at Mississippi State University, the El Segundo Ragtime Festival, and the Sedalia Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival. His website is: www.frederickhodges.com

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6pm Friday, Oct. 19 - Laugh Show Repeated - 10am Saturday, Oct. 20 5pm Saturday, Oct. 20 - The Scarlet Letter You’re Darn Tootin' with Laurel & Hardy “This is the story of two musicians who played neither by note nor ear, instead they used brute strength.” Stan and There have been nearly a dozen film versions of the classic American novel Ollie make a mess of the town band, get into trouble with the police while by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but this one from 1926 remains the most highly busking for change, and end up setting off a small riot of tit-for-tat pratfalls. regarded of them all. The great Swedish director Viktor Sjostrom (aka Victor Seastrom) mounted this MGM production in a richly expressionistic style. The Rink with Charlie Chaplin Charlie’s famous tramp character is an And he had a major star, the great Lillian Gish, for the role of Hester Prynne, amorous waiter on roller skates. The roller rink becomes a dance floor/arena for the woman of Puritan times condemned to wear the scarlet “A” for adultery Chaplin’s balletic slapstick antics, and his inspired rambunctiousness gets full and achieves her own heroic dignity in the process. “Miss Gish has a strong play in the restaurant and at the birthday party of his beloved (Edna Purviance). inclination for such parts,” wrote Mordaunt Hall in the New York Times, “and in this vehicle she gives an excellent, conception of the courage of a young The Boat with Buster Keaton Here the famously unsmiling comedian is a woman in the face of sneering, scorn and tittle-tattle.” Lars Hanson plays boat-builder who takes his wife and kids along for the ill-fated maiden voyage of Hesterʼs illicit lover, the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, and D. W. Griffith stalwart his new vessel which bears the comically auspicious name “Damfino.” Henry B. Walthall plays Hesterʼs long-absent husband, Roger Prynne. And Frances Marion, a bold and gifted screenwriter (and a novelist of some note), Frogland (a.k.a. The Frogs Who Wanted a King) Russian émigré Wladyslaw authored the skillful screenplay adaptation. Starewicz, an early master of puppet animation, made this politically barbed cartoon in France in 1922.

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8pm Friday, Oct. 19 - Greed Friday’s Main Feature

3pm - Saturday, Oct. 20 - Mother Along with Sergei Eisenstein and others, Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893–1953) In 1923, Eric von Stroheim set out to film a comprehensive version of Frank was one of the architects of the golden age of Soviet cinema in the 1920’s. Norrisʼ muckraking novel McTeague. The result, with an eight-hour running His special gifts for characterization and metaphorical editing are boldly time, was rejected by the studio (MGM); subsequently, von Stroheim’s evident in this adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s best-known novel. (“A mother footage was edited down repeatedly, until finally in 1924 the 140-minute finds her loyalties divided between her striking worker (and potential version that will be shown tonight was put into release. Von Stroheim revolutionary) son and her strike-breaking husband, who dies during a disowned the version that was released, but its status as a major work of skirmish between the two sides; but when her son is arrested on weapons cinematic art was soon established and to this day, Greed continues to be charges, she firmly attaches her allegiance to the revolting workers, in viewed as one of the great masterpieces of American cinema. The main Pudovkin’s often powerful if occasionally vaguely corny look at the failed story remains intact, with the conflicted relationships of three central revolution of 1905” -- Iain.Stott.) Whereas Eisenstein’s style of montage characters – a dentist named McTeague (Gibson Gowland), his close friend (film editing) emphasized “the masses” and the dialectical collision of Marcus (Jean Hersholt), and Marcus’ girlfriend Trina (ZaSu Pitts) who abstract forces, Pudovkin’s gives more attention to the emotional dynamics marries McTeague instead. The three of them are all doomed players in a of individual characters and the historical events into which they are swept. triangular tragedy of greed, lust, and self deception. In von Stroheim’s frank Pudovkin’s approach makes elements of the setting -- a bridge over an ice- and gritty imagery, the unsparing naturalistic details of Norris’ fiction take on clogged river, the wintry weather, and the doors and wall of prisons and a pungently cinematic life of their own. Greed’s legendary climax comes in a factories -- into significant aspects of the harsh passage from oppression grueling showdown shot on location in Death Valley, and an important part and injustice to moral rebellion and revolutionary commitment. Vera of the film’s special pungency comes from von Stroheim’s insistence on Baranovskaya is particularly memorable in the title role. shooting scenes in the actual Bay Area locations designated in the novel (San Francisco, Oakland, Iowa Hill).

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1:30pm Saturday, Oct. 20 - The Great K&A Train Robbery 11:30am Saturday, Oct. 20 - The Lost World Preceding Short: Danger Ahead Preceding Short: The Ghost of Slumber Mountain It’s no accident that this early landmark of special-effects moviemaking plays Tom Mix was the first great star of what we now think of as Saturday matinee something like a precursor to King Kong – Willis O’Brien, the great pioneer of westerns made for younger audiences. And this film is one of the few animated wildlife in movies, created the stop-motion monsters and jungle surviving examples of the action-packed spectaculars he made while under miniatures for both films. Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel, this contract to the Fox studios in the 1920ʼs. As the title suggests, this one has sci-fi jungle adventure has modern British scientists and explorers encountering Mix tracking down train robbers, but as is customary with matinee westerns, pre-historic creatures in a remote South American setting that O’Brien and spectacle and action matter more than story. The great attractions in this company created almost entirely inside First National Pictures’ studios. The case include scenic glories from the Royal Gorge and other Colorado cast of live-action human characters includes a couple of iconic faces from locations, grand scale chase scenes, sensational action (with daring stunt Hollywood’s Golden Age, Wallace Beery as a notably combative zoologist and work by Mix himself), and the dynamic presence of Mixʼs top-billed co-star, Lewis Stone as an avuncular nobleman who supports the expedition. Bessie Tony the Wonder Horse. Youthful Dorothy Dwan, who was in 39 movies Love, a silent-era star who was still appearing in major films in the 1980’s, has before retiring at the age of 24, plays the heroine, hefty William Walling plays what amounts to the Fay Wray/terrified heroine role here, with Lloyd Hughes her father, the railroad magnate who calls Tom to the case. History-minded playing the role of the young hero who romances her. Burly Bull Montana has viewers may welcome the filmʼs documentary glimpses of the Shoshone Dam the heavily-made-up role of a menacing man/ape. Preceding short subject: and of vintage railway rolling stock. Also on the program: Danger Ahead, a Willis O’Brien’s The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1919). The story of a man’s comic adventure short with Hairbreadth Harry (played by Earl McCarthy) encounter with the ghostly Mad Dick who shows him a place where dinosaurs involved in some further railway action. still exist. O’Brien wrote, directed, created the dinosaurs, and played the ghost.

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