The Sprocket Society is pleased to announce its Fall 2009 season, featuring a mixture of avant garde, documentary, and genre film programs, plus a good old-fashioned Halloween movie show. For the latest information, visit our events page, sign up for our e-mail list, or join us on Facebook.

Part of the year-long 69 series.

Northwest Film Forum
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
8:00 PM

16mm (original format) / 71 min.

A selection of landmarks in avant film from 1969, featuring classic short works by many of the year’s greatest pioneering artists. Featuring classic “analog” films and examples of the birth of digital cinema, with early video art and even some of the first digital computer animation ever made.

Watch streaming video and more info about the artists and films

Invocation of My Demon Brother
Kenneth Anger, with synthesizer soundtrack by Mick Jagger
His last film for 21 years.

Our Lady of the Sphere
Larry Jordan
Surreal cut-out animation by a master

Moon 1969
Scott Bartlett
Mesmerizing video/film art

Le Labyrinthe
Piotr Kamler, with electronic score by Bernard Parmegiani
created for Pierre Schaeffer’s ORTF in Paris

Binary Bit Patterns
Michael Whitney
Pioneering digital computer animation

Beatles Electronique
Electronic Moon no. 2
Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik
Visionary video art

Hermann Nitsch: An Introduction to the O.M. Theatre
Stephen Gebhardt
A shocking documentary of the ground-breaking Aktionist performance artist and composer

Part of the year-long 69 Series.

Northwest Film Forum
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
8:00 PM

16mm (original format) / 88 min.

A schizoid sampling of the incredibly diverse underground documentary and newsreel film scenes in 1969. The Black Panthers meet Pentecostal Christians amidst the psychedelic ruins of Chicago’s Democratic Convention Riots. Plus, a rarely-shown early interview with the legendary Kuchar Brothers.

Just added: Fallout Shelter Analysis by Computer Graphics, a Dept. of Defense instructional film for what was then a cutting-edge computer interface using a “light pen” stylus.

Testimony
Brian Patrick
A group of Pentecostal Christians in Athens, Ohio

Mayday!
California Newsreel
A “Free Huey” rally held by the Black Panthers in San Francisco, on the May 1 international labor holiday. Crypto-commie perennial Bob Avakian makes an appearance at the microphone as well.

Legendary Epic Yarns and Fables, Part 4: The Kuchar Brothers
Stephen Gebhardt
A no-holds-barred interview with the legendary underground exploitation filmmakers

Leo Beuerman
Gene Boomer
An Oscar-nominated look at the life of a severely handicapped man in Lawrence, Kansas

Campaign
Tom Palazollo
The 1968 Democratic Convention and its aftermath as seen through a local experimental lens

Just added!
Fallout Shelter Analysis by Computer Graphics
University of Utah Computer Center, for ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), US Dept. of Defense

Grand Illusion Cinema
Friday, October 30, 2009

Carnivorous Cartoons, Shocking Shorts, Asphyxiating Animation, Terrifying Trailers, Putrescent Previews…and Real Live Mayhem!

Do you dare to witness the ultimate onslaught of MONSTER MAYHEM as the Grand Illusion Cinema is overrun with creeps, spooks, ghouls, and fiends? Join us on our journey into the strange, dark world of the SUPERNATURAL as we try to make contact with the other side and invite the diabolical denizens of the spectral realms into our theater. You will see a GHOST! But you may not SURVIVE! Be there on October 30th and behold as the phantoms take over the screen for a night of the most unbelievably SHOCKING, THRILLING, and AMAZING fright films ever to scream their way into your rapidly melting mind. Can you survive the GRAND ILLUSION SPOOK-SHOW SPECTACULAR? See if you have what it takes!!

The Northwest Film Forum, Seattle’s leading cinematheque, recently issued an urgent fundraising request.

They need to raise $70,000 by August 15, or face significant cuts to core programs and their small staff.

They are asking for donations of any size.  You can use this secure online donation form (there’s an “Other Amount” box at the bottom of the membership options), send in a check via snail mail, or drop by the place personally and hand them a 10-spot.

In a July 30 message sent to 10,000 email subscribers and posted online (here, here, and here), NWFF Executive Director Lyall Bush said that income for the year was down by 30%.  “While we remain scrappy and imaginative in tough spots, this time is different,” he wrote.  “We are looking at real changes…programs such as Soul Nite and ByDesign could go. It means fewer masterpieces such as “Silent Light” showing up on our screens. It means maybe no more camera rentals. Jobs and programs are on the line.”

Curator of special programs Peter Lucas was furloughed indefinitely earlier this summer.  Several other key positions are now said to be in immediate risk of furloughing or even elimination.

The Northwest Film Forum is an invaluable part of Seattle’s arts community, providing 2 theaters filled year-round with films and events, financing and production support for regional filmmakers, workshops and training, very inexpensive film and video equipment rentals, editing facilities, a collaborative space for artists of all disciplines, it sponsors the Seattle Children’s Film Festival, rents office space to filmmakers and festivals, does some film distribution, has a film vault and even a lending library.  They have working relationships with other local organizations, colleges and universities, embassies and consulates, PBS, and film institutions around the world.

Any city would be lucky to have an arts organization like that, and precious few do — especially one devoted to film arts.

The NWFF has been very supportive of the Sprocket Society, and many many others.  Please consider supporting them now, when they need it most.  All it’ll take is 3 minutes of your time and two clicks.

On Saturday, July 25, 2009, pioneering sound artist Richard Lerman will be performing a concert as part of the excellent and always-ongoing Wayward Music Series at the Good Shepherd Center (located at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. in Seattle, at the SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford).  Admission is a $5 – $15 sliding scale donation at the door.

Among the pieces Lerman will be performing is Sections for Screen, Performers and Audience (1974), the score for which is on 16mm film projected so that both audience and performers can see it.  Joining Lerman in performing the composition are members of the Seattle-based ensemble Eye Music, which specializes in playing graphical scores.

The concert is being produced by Nonsequitur, a longtime supporter of avant garde and creative music.  The Sprocket Society will be helping out by projecting the 16mm film score.  We’re honored and excited to be participating in the program.

Other pieces being performed include:

• Sonic Journeys 2 — excerpts from Lerman’s Transducer Series: multi-channel field recordings made with self-made microphones played over dual video projections of footage from more than fifty Super 8 films made between 1982-1988
• Entrance Music — for home-made microphones and Walkman cassette tape delay
• Changing States 8 — for metal microphones, butane torches and computer
• Music for Plinky, Bicycle & Straw — for home-made instruments, bicycle, drinking straws, and Walkman cassette delay

Beginning the evening’s concert will be “a sonic celebration” for esteemed Seattle musician, sound collector, and instrument builder Susie Kozawa in honor of her 60th birthday. Everyone is encouraged to “Bring an object that makes a sound.”

Richard Lerman bio:

As a sound artist, performer and composer, Richard Lerman traverses worlds of sound and music.

For over forty years, he has been gathering, scanning, seeking sounds and creating works that weave through nature and draw upon living communities and memories in notable landscapes.

Lerman’s performances and recordings rely on everyday objects and traditional instruments as well as basic, self-invented equipment and state-of-the-art technologies, as they were available since the 1960s.  His scores and instructions are deceptively simple, yet produce extraordinary results.

As a filmmaker, sound documentarian, installation artist, and collaborator with other artists, he demonstrates that his conception of sonic reality and musical experience is interdependent with visuality, motion, actual sites and moments, theatricality, live audiences, and politics.

His art takes him from studios and concert halls to cities and the outdoors, worldwide.

Available for free download is the Washington State Film Preservation Manual: Low-Cost and No-Cost Suggestions To Care For Your Film (PDF) by Nicolette Bromberg, Hannah Palin, and Libby Burke of the University of Washington Libraries.  It is recommended for anyone with a film collection.

It’s a good, basic but fairly thorough primer on how institutions (or individuals) with little or no funding for such things can undertake film preservation.  It includes the fundamentals (terminology, basic tech) as well as strategies and practices that should be followed.  It’s all very practical and realistic, easy to understand, and highly recommended.  There’s even sample forms like condition reports you can print out and use.  The “Resources and Bibliography” section is brief but well selected.

Preparation of the manual was funded by a grant several years ago from the Washington Preservation Initiative (WPI), which awarded $20,000 to the University of Washington Libraries to preserve films in their Special Collections (much it on 16mm) and create the manual for free distribution to other institutions.

This effort by Visual Materials Curator Nicolette Bromberg and her staff provided a springboard for the Washington Film Preservation Project in 2005-2006.  Funded by a $29,000 grant from the WPI, the Project brought together eight other museums, archives and libraries, as well as several institutions within the University of Washington, to learn film preservation techniques, and use the UW Libraries Special Collections’ facilities to inspect, clean, repair, and rehouse the films in their collections, as well as prepare digital masters and videotape viewing copies of selected holdings.

Also participating in the Washington Film Preservation Project were:

• The Burke Museum
• The Seattle Municipal Archives
• Everett Public Library
• The Highline Historical Society
• The Museum of History and Industry
• University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
• Weyerhaeuser Company Archives
• Providence Health System Archives
• The Museum of Flight
• The Yakama Nation

Among the member organizations, “there are approximately 6,000 films in collections ranging in size from 50 reels up to thousands, most of which are original and irreplaceable materials. The format of most of the films is 16mm, although there is some 35mm, Regular 8mm and Super 8mm among the holdings. The films come from every corner of our region and cover every conceivable genre from industrial and educational films, to documentation and research films, to films created by students and those produced by professionals.”

This was followed by public screenings of preserved films at the Northwest Film Forum, the Yakama Nation Native American Film Festival, and elsewhere.  Excerpts from 27  films in the UW collection are now available as Quicktime video on the Libraries’ Digital Collections web site.

Bromberg also made presentations about the Project to the Seattle Area Archivists, the Oregon State University Archives, and at the 2007 Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) annual conference in Rochester, NY.

William K. Everson (1929-1996) was an extremely important film scholar, archivist, and professor whose name is familiar to most folks with an interest in film history. Among his many contributions was his practice of writing detailed scholarly program notes for screenings he helped curate for the Theodore Huff Film Society, which he co-founded in 1951. These free handouts became world famous, and the practice emulated by many other film societies, museums, and universities.

Now a huge number of these program notes, along with a number of original press kits he collected, are available online at the William K. Everson Collection web site offered by New York University, where he taught for more than 20 years.  Included in the online collection are program notes for screenings by the 300 Film Club (1949-1950) and the Huff society (1953-1982), as well as for classes and series he led at the New School (1966-1990) and Marymount Manhattan College (1970-1972).

The program notes are in a variety of formats, usually (but not always) more than one:  HTML, PDF, and/or scanned Jpegs.  The HTML versions are all cross-linked with other related notes.  The entire collection is searchable, or you can browse by series (then year of screening), director, title, or country of origin.

New York University is to be praised for providing free global access to these wonderful documents that are so central to the history of film preservation and appreciation.

There will be a Twitter channel you can subscribe to during the Secret Sunday Matinee starting in March.  It’ll have clues about the upcoming features, maybe some secret prizes, and such like.

We’ll post details as it gets closer to the series, so stay tuned…

Update: subscribe to http://twitter.com/SecretMatinee

The entire site has been converted to WordPress, which allows us to not only maintain a blog but more easily manage the rest of the site as well.  Please pardon the dust for a little while as things get settled.

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Poster for 'Zorro's Fighting Legion', 12 chapter movie serial

It’s official — The Sprocket Society will be curating Secret Sunday Matinee II at the Northwest Film Forum this spring, March 1 – May 24, 2009!

Now at a later time — 3 PM (by popular demand).  Each show will be a full two hours of classic and rare movie entertainment.  Series passes will be available.

Our movie serial this time will be Zorro’s Fighting Legion (1939), one of the all-time classics from the legendary Republic Studios, packed with literally non-stop action and featuring legendary stunt work.

The Secret Features — dating from the 1920s through the 1950s or so — will lean toward westerns, adventure, and swashbucklers, but we’ve got some curveballs in mind to keep you on your toes.  There will be two all-silent film programs (except for the serial, of course), and the return of the 13th Episode Show, a series-finale cavalcade of extra-special surprises.

The shows will remain family-friendly (suggested for ages 10 and up), but we’ll be aiming for a slightly older audience this time — sort of a kiddie matinee for grown-ups.

No self-respecting weekend matinee would be caught in public without its shorts, and there are even more surprising and rare treasures in store this time around — silents and sound, cartoons, comedies, music, trick films, experimental animation, and the just plain odd.

Watch this site for more info soon…

The outstanding Bioscope blog recently ran an extensive piece listing an amazing number of active silent film accompanists, with links to their respective web sites and capsule bios for each.  It’s so good, I’m taking the liberty of reproducing it here, but without the images.

Additions and corrections are welcome in the original post’s comments.

Music, maestros, please
The Bioscope
Dec. 27, 2008

Stephen Horne, one of the UK’s premier silent film pianists, has just published his website, www.stephenhorne.co.uk. To mark the occasion, I thought it would be interesting to produce a round-up of silent film musicians’ websites, where you can find out what industrious lives they lead, listen to sound samples, and maybe purchase a DVD or two.

Alloy Orchestra
The three-man Alloy Orchestra (Terry Donahue, Ken Winokur, Roger Miller) are among the best-known of silent film accompanists, though their ‘aural onslaught’ of electronica and found percussion is controversial for some. Their site includes details of the films they have accompanied, touring shedule, CD and DVD store, reviews, information about the instruments they use, and video clips with their scores from Blip.tv (One Week, The Lost World, The Unknown, Manslaughter etc) so you may judge for yourselves.

Elizabeth-Jane Baldry
Elizabeth-Jane Baldry is a harpist, particularly expert in Victorian fairy harp music. She has recently branched out into accompanying silent films, and there is a section of her site devoted to her silent film work, alongside other professional information, including her own filmmaking work.

Neil Brand
Probably the best-known improvising silent film pianist working today, Neil Brand is also a playwright, actor, composer, scholar and eloquent advocate for the art of silent film in general. His website covers his musical and writing biographies, with news, reviews, and events calendar. There is a radio interview with Neil available (from 2000) and audio extracts from some of his scores (including Diary of a Lost Girl, The Ring and his recent orchestral score for Hitchcock’s Blackmail).

Timothy Brock
Timonthy Brock is a conductor and composer specialising in concert works of early 20th-century music and silent films. His site gives details of his original silent film scores (Nosferatu, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Sherlock Jr. etc.) and restored scores (The Gold Rush, A Woman of Paris, City Lights etc.), images, news, articles and events calendar.

Günter Buchwald
Günter Buchwald is a pianist and violinist as renowned for his accompaniments alongside other silent film musicians as he is for his solo accompaniments. He often works as a duo with percussionist Frank Bockius or pianist Neil Brand, or with the Silent Movie Music Company as a trio or quartet. His site (in German) gives repetoire, reviews and events calendar.

Philip Carli
Phil Carli is a silent film accompanist, musicologist and film archivist. He has made special study of film, music and culture of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and conducts the Flower City Society Orchestra of Rochester, New York, which is modeled on the ’society orchestras’ that entertained guests in upper-class restaurants and resorts at the turn of the last century. His website covers this and his silent film work, including a list of broadcasts and DVD releases with his scores (including Regeneration, Sally of the Sawdust, Stella Maris etc.).

Club Foot Orchestra
Radical San Francisco ensemble which has come to specialise in silent film accompaniments. The site covers the films it has scored (Nosferatu, Pandora’s Box, The Hands of Orlac etc.) with links to CDs/DVDs where available.

Antonio Coppola
Italian pianist Coppola is a silent film accompanist of long-standing and high repuation. His site (in Italian, English and French) has a short biography and a long list of film directors (surname only) whose work he has played to.

Carl Davis
Composer and conductor Carl Davis is the best-known of all silent film musicians, for his work with Kevin Brownlow and Photoplay Productions, which did so much from the 1980s onwards to revive interest in silent films with live orchestral accompaniment, most notably his epic score for Abel Gance’s Napoleon. His site, however, does not dwell much on the past and is mostly interested in upcoming events, which continue to include silent films accompaniments with orchestra (notably Chaplin).

Devil Music Ensemble
Boston trio comprising Brendon Wood (guitars, lap steel, synthesizer), Jonah Rapino (electric violin, vibraphone, synthesizer) and Tim Nylander (drums, percussion, synthesizer). The group’s many forms of music performance include silent film accompaniments (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Nosferatu etc.), for which they provide video clips.

David Drazin
David Drazin is among the most prolific and praised of American silent film accompanists. His web page lists the main films he has accompanied, plus some information on his jazz, ballet and modern dance music work.

Arthur Dulay
Arthur Dulay (1891-1971) is perhaps the only silent film accompanist of an earlier generation to have website dedicated to him. Dulay played for silents from 1908, and late in his career as a musician in the 1950s he became resident pianist for the accompaniment of silent films at London’s National Film Theatre. The site includes sound samples of his work and a radio interview, as well as samples of his other musical work.

Gerhard Gruber
Composer and pianist Gerhard Gruber is Austria’s leading silent film pianist. His site includes testimonials, a repertoire list, links to festivals where he has played and to sound and video excerpts (including A Page of Madness). Much the same material also appears in a blog, silentfilm.wordpress.com, and on another site, www.silentmovie.eu.

Hesperus
Hesperus is a five-member ensemble with overlapping membership which performs a fusion of early and traditional styles from a variety of cultures. Its silent film work has included Robin Hood with English Renaissance music, The General with American Civil War music, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame with French medieval music. Its website is under construction, but there is information on its work at Class Acts on Tour.

Frederick Hodges
Pianist Frederick Hodges specialises in American songbook material from the 1920s and 1930s. His extensive silent film work incldes DVD recordings for Image Entertainment, Flicker Alley and Unknown Video, and his site has an informative page on silent film music and musical sources.

Stephen Horne
Stephen Horne has come to prominence recently, in particular for his scores for A Cottage in Dartmoor and The Battle of the Somme. His stylish site includes a short biography (he is a regular dance accompanist and has written screenplays), list of live dates, gallery and reviews. He can also boast a Facebook fan group, We’re in love with Stephen Horne.

In the Nursery
Rock band In the Nursery (ITN), headed by the twins Klive and Nigel Humberstone, have branched out into silent film scores for live performance and as DVD and CD releases. Their work includes Man with a Movie Camera, Hindle Wakes, the Electric Edwardians compilation and most recently The Passion of Joan of Arc. Their site includes discography, biography, reviews, films details, and MP3 downloads for purchase.

Dennis James
American Dennis James has accompanied silent films with piano, chamber ensemble and full symphony orchestra, but is probably best known for his theatre organ accompaniments, for which is perhaps the world’s leading exponent. His web page has a biography and list of engagements.

Jan Kopinski
British saxophonist Jan Kopinski is best-known for his radical jazz ensemble Pinski Zoo. With pianist Steve Iliffe he performs original compsitions to silent films, including Earth, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City and The Seashell and the Clergyman. His site covers his various muscial outputs, with audio samples and video clips (including Earth and Nosferatu in performance).

Eunice Martins
German composer and improvising pianist Eunice Martins has played at numerous silent film events. Her site includes her extensive repertoire, photographs and upcoming schedule.

Jon Mirsalis
Jon Mirsalis is a film buff extraordinaire, a silent film pianist, and a leading bioscientist. This web page, which provides biographical details, is modestly tucked away as part of his Lon Chaney website.

Ben Model
The proud possessor of www.silentfilmmusic.com is the resident silent film accompanist for The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Model plays piano, theatre organ and a virtual theatre organ called the Miditzer. His site includes performance schedule, scores on DVD, and details of his orchestral scores. Model has also pioneered the idea of producing alternative scores to DVD releases of silent films as MP3 downloads, from his altscore.com site, and has a blog, Silent Film Music.

The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Mont Alto, led by Rodney Sauer, is an American five to seven piece chamber ensemble that recreates the small local orchestras popular in America from 1890 through to 1930. The ensemble has become well known for its many silent film scores for video and DVD releases, particularly for Film Preservation Associates and Milestone Video. Its site provides detailed information on the films for which it has provided scores (with some audio files), a schedule of its forthcoming silent film accompaniments and dances, and useful information for the general enquirer about silent film music of the period and today.

Michael Mortilla
Michael D. Mortilla is a composer, orchestrator and performer, who has produced hundreds of scores for film, television, dance, theatre, silent film, magic, mime, industrials, commercials, special events and the concert stage. The silents work has included Harry Houdini’s The Master Mystery serial and Chaplin Mutuals, and he has performed at many American silent film festivals. His site documents his many different activities.

Maud Nelissen
Dutch composer and pianist Maud Nelissen has performed for the Nederlands Filmmuseum, the Film in Concert Foundation and various festivals. She leads the six-member group The Sprockets, which has specialised in accompanying silent comedies (Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy). Her scores for The Patsy and The Merry Widow (a combination of Léhar’s music and her own) are performed by the Orchestra da Camera Oscura, and the Asta Harmonists play her music for Asta Nielsen films. Her impressive website covers all facets of her musical career and includes silent film video clips.

Maria Newman
Daughter of the renowned Hollywood composer Alfred Newman, Maria Newman has produced scores for silents for the Mary Pickford Foundation and Turner Classic Movies. Information on her work can also be found in her entry on GarageBand.com.

The Panoptikon Orchestra
Panoptikon is a Swedish ensemble (trio), led by Matti Bye, that plays music for silent films, both precomposed scores and improvised music, using both traditional and modern instruments. Its site provides background information on the ensemble, a list of records and videos,with some audio samples (Joyless Street, The Phantom Carriage) and general news.

Judy Rosenberg
Judy Rosenberg is a silent film pianist and composer,as well as being (like others in the profession) a dance accompanist. She plays regularly to silents for the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California and at the Niles Silent Film Museum in Fremont, VA. Her lists the films she has accompanied, gives upcoming screenings, and has a thoughtful statement on her art, comparing silent film and dance accompaniment.

Silentones
German five-piece ensemble, led by Susanne Peusquens. Their site is in German, English and Italian, and has information on their scores for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Golem, the films of Max Davidson, and others, with audio samples.

The Silent Orchestra
American duo Carlos Garza (keyboards) and Rich O’Meara (percussion) make up the Silent Orchestra who accompany silent films with both improvised and composed scores. Their site lists the films they have accompanied, including Nosferatu and Salomé which are Image Entertainment DVD releases, and there is news of past shows and reviews.

Donald Sosin
The proud possessors of www.silent-film-music.com are pianist Donald Sosin and his singer/actress wife Joanna Seaton. Sosin keeps up a prodigious work rate through live performances, DVD releases and workshops, as documented on the website. Also to be found there are audio and video clips (Foolish Wives, Manhatta, King of Kings etc.) and a listing of recordings Sosin has made of his own performances which are available for purchase from Farmhouse Window Productions. Sosin also maintains a blog, Silent Film Music and other Sounding Off.

Gabriel Thibaudeau
Thibaudeau is composer, conductor, and pianist for the Cinémathèque québécoise, and has been composing silent film scores since 1990. He performs composed and improvised scores the world over, including at many festivals and major arts institutions. His bi-lingual (English / French) site lists the many films for which he has produced composed scores, some with audio or video clips, plus biographical information and news.

Vox Lumiere
Vox Lumiere combines rock music, live theatre and silent film. It brings together musicians, dancers, singers, multi-media and light shows to retells such films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Metropolis and The Phantom of the Opera as rock musical experiences. The multi-lingual site includes audio and video clips, image gallery, calendar and shop.

Clark Wilson
Organist Clark Wilson has played at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Cinequest, and plays a silent picture annually at LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. His site lists his many silent film scores, including Broken Blossoms, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Camille. He also runs his own pipe organ business.

For other silent film musicians, not all of whom have sites of web pages of their own (Robert Israel, Neal Kurz, Eric Beheim etc.), see the Silent Era’s page of weblinks for composers and musicians. Others, such as Britain’s John Sweeney, a Pordenone regular, at least have a Wikipedia page.

Over at SIFFblog, David Jeffers has posted a preview of this winter’s silent film series and screenings in Seattle and Olympia.

First up is this Monday, Jan. 5 with Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) at the aptly spectacular Paramount Theater, where Dennis James will be accompanying on the Mighty Wurlitzer organ.  It kicks off the new Silent Film Mondays series, featuring horror films.