Sat August 2, 2014
Shoulder Arms (Charles Chaplin; U.S., 1918)
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at PFA Theater
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Lecture with Russell Merritt
Live Music by Judith Rosenberg on piano
Russell Merritt’s thirty-minute illustrated talk focuses on how the production and marketing of tonight’s films, as well as tomorrow’s Hearts of the World (D.W. Griffith), created the template for the ways movies sold the war.
Released just a few weeks before the Armistice, Shoulder Arms is a Tramp’s-eye view of World War I in which the all-too-plausible comedy of self-preservation, like trying to sleep in a flooded trench, is conjoined with flights of patriotic fantasy.
• Written by Chaplin. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh. With Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman. (46 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
Followed by THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA (Winsor McCay, U.S., 1918). A somber animated counterpart to McCay’s editorial cartoons. (12 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque québécoise)
GREAT GUNS (Walt Disney Productions, U.S., 1927). One of Disney’s parodies
of trench warfare, this one starring Oswald the Rabbit, Disney’s most popular silent film creation. (7 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Swank Motion Pictures)
Total running time: 95 mins
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Live Music by Judith Rosenberg on piano
Russell Merritt’s thirty-minute illustrated talk focuses on how the production and marketing of tonight’s films, as well as tomorrow’s Hearts of the World (D.W. Griffith), created the template for the ways movies sold the war.
Released just a few weeks before the Armistice, Shoulder Arms is a Tramp’s-eye view of World War I in which the all-too-plausible comedy of self-preservation, like trying to sleep in a flooded trench, is conjoined with flights of patriotic fantasy.
• Written by Chaplin. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh. With Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman. (46 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
Followed by THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA (Winsor McCay, U.S., 1918). A somber animated counterpart to McCay’s editorial cartoons. (12 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque québécoise)
GREAT GUNS (Walt Disney Productions, U.S., 1927). One of Disney’s parodies
of trench warfare, this one starring Oswald the Rabbit, Disney’s most popular silent film creation. (7 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Swank Motion Pictures)
Total running time: 95 mins
Lecture with Russell Merritt
Live Music by Judith Rosenberg on piano
Russell Merritt’s thirty-minute illustrated talk focuses on how the production and marketing of tonight’s films, as well as tomorrow’s Hearts of the World (D.W. Griffith), created the template for the ways movies sold the war.
Released just a few weeks before the Armistice, Shoulder Arms is a Tramp’s-eye view of World War I in which the all-too-plausible comedy of self-preservation, like trying to sleep in a flooded trench, is conjoined with flights of patriotic fantasy.
• Written by Chaplin. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh. With Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman. (46 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
Followed by THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA (Winsor McCay, U.S., 1918). A somber animated counterpart to McCay’s editorial cartoons. (12 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque québécoise)
GREAT GUNS (Walt Disney Productions, U.S., 1927). One of Disney’s parodies
of trench warfare, this one starring Oswald the Rabbit, Disney’s most popular silent film creation. (7 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Swank Motion Pictures)
Total running time: 95 mins
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Live Music by Judith Rosenberg on piano
Russell Merritt’s thirty-minute illustrated talk focuses on how the production and marketing of tonight’s films, as well as tomorrow’s Hearts of the World (D.W. Griffith), created the template for the ways movies sold the war.
Released just a few weeks before the Armistice, Shoulder Arms is a Tramp’s-eye view of World War I in which the all-too-plausible comedy of self-preservation, like trying to sleep in a flooded trench, is conjoined with flights of patriotic fantasy.
• Written by Chaplin. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh. With Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman. (46 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
Followed by THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA (Winsor McCay, U.S., 1918). A somber animated counterpart to McCay’s editorial cartoons. (12 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque québécoise)
GREAT GUNS (Walt Disney Productions, U.S., 1927). One of Disney’s parodies
of trench warfare, this one starring Oswald the Rabbit, Disney’s most popular silent film creation. (7 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Swank Motion Pictures)
Total running time: 95 mins
show less
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