LIVE MUSICAL SCORE - Silent Clowns
<div><b><i>A toast to Mel Brooks' 100th birthday with a block of four short silent comedies featuring a live score by Matthew Marshall:</i><br><br>Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915)</b></div><div>Mishap and hilarity ensue in a story following two neighbors on wash day. Directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Easy Street (1917)</b></div><div>The Little Tramp takes a job as a police officer with the rough-and-tumble Easy Street as his beat. Directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.</div><div><br></div><div><b>High and Dizzy (1920)</b></div><div>A doctor attempts to treat a young woman who chronically sleepwalks. Starring Harold Lloyd.</div><div><br></div><div><b>One Week (1920)</b></div><div>A newlywed couple receives a prefabricated "kit house" as a wedding gift. Directed by and starring Buster Keaton.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div>PART OF OUR MONTHLY SERIES OF SILENT FILMS WITH LIVE MUSIC FROM VIOLET CROWN'S FIRST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: MATT MARSHALL! Experience cinema the way it was 100 years ago... For the first 30 years of movies audiences went to the theater and watched silent images on the screen with live music. You can think of it like watching a music video, but the musicians perform live. UVA Film Lecturer and silent film accompanist Matt Marshall (and sometimes with his Reel Music Trio) brings this tradition back with modern flair and will perform live accompaniment to classic silent films each month, giving audiences the experience of what it was like going to the movies when they were a burgeoning art form. Matt Marshall has been writing and performing music for classic silent film screenings since 2001 and has recorded soundtracks for video releases of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid and pioneer French filmmaker George Méliès’ Conquest of the Pole. Marshall performs and lectures at the Center at Belvedere, a non-profit community center in Charlottesville, VA and for the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.PT1H30M2026-06-28Fatty Arbuckle
Mabel Normand
Charlie Chaplin
Harold Lloyd
Buster Keaton
Fatty Arbuckle
Charlie Chaplin
Hal Roach
Buster Keaton
LIVE MUSICAL SCORE - Silent Clowns"LIVE MUSICAL SCORE - Silent Clowns"Showtimes
June 28, 2:00 pm
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