Each year we record a live performance at the
convention of one of the silent features shown.
Each tape features Bob Vaughn,
from San Francisco, Bob remembered the silents first hand or Philip Carli, from the Rochester School of Music.
Bob & Phillip are experts on a theater organ. Most sound tracks are recorded
on a 3 manual, 12 rank Barton Pipe Organ.
Phillip also shows his expertise on the piano.

These VHS or DVD videos are available for a donation of $20.00 each (S&H $5 per order). More information can be found on the order form.

All proceeds go towards film preservation

The Greatest Question (1919) 91 minutes, tinted.
Starring: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Ralph Graves.
Director: D.W. Griffith Cinematographer: Billy Blitzer
Dr. Philip Carli at the piano.
An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family and soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife.
"The Greatest Question" is a simple melodrama that includes all the elements of a suspenseful motion picture. A very experienced cast of D.W. Griffith players do their best to make this film unique.

Little Mary McAllistar in Young Mother Hubbard

YOUNG MOTHER HUBBARD (1917) 74 minutes b&w / tinted
Phillip Carli at the piano.
Little Mary McAllistar is a very young girl who keep the family together after their stepfather abandons them. Of course the landlord still wants the rent paid on the farm and the child welfare society finds out and will do what they think is best for the kids (yeah, right).
The acting is natural and the directing excellent.
This is one of the few surviving features from the Essanay Studios and is made from the best and only materials know to exist. Transferred on a Rank Cintel from a Library of Congress 16mm preservation, intercut with the surviving 35mm nitrate film.

THE CUB (Reporter) (1915) Rural Comedy/Drama 78 min..
Johnny Hines, Martha Hedman.
With Philip Carli at the piano.
Directed by Maurice Tourneur.
A cub reporter is sent into the hills of Kentucky to cover a feud that began when Jim Renlow's pig was caught eating Bill White's turnips. A fast paced comedy where the cavalry does come to the rescue.
Transferred from the 35 mm multi-tinted restoration, a joint restoration of the American Film Institute, Eastman House, Library of Congress and the National Archives of Canada.

A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS (1918) Comedy 60 minutes.
Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford.
With Philip Carli at the piano.
The delightful Constance Talmadge and dashing Harrison Ford as a well to do English couple who bicker all the time. After a divorce they are both guests at a country home were friends are rehearsing a play.
A burglar escapes with silk stockings and hanky panky is suspected.
Transferred from an original tinted print.

WHAT NO MAN KNOWS (1921) Drama. 65 minutes.
Clara Kimball Young, Lowell Sherman, Dorothy Wallace,
William P. Carton.
With Bob Vaughn at the Barton organ.
The story of three people: a newspaper reporter who devotes much of her efforts to helping slum children and who still loves her childhood sweetheart, a lawyer and his wife who is a kleptomaniac. The triangle twists and turn in this melodrama. There is missing footage in this beautiful restoration that have been bridged by subtitles.
Transferred from the 35mm print at the Library of Congress.

DYNAMITE DAN (1923) Drama. 54 minutes.
Kenneth McDonald, Boris Karloff, Frank Rice, Diana Alden.
With Philip Carli at the piano
Boris Karloff is delightfully cast as a leering villain with designs on the
heroine in this early role. Story of a hard working laborer who accidentally floors the boxing champ. He becomes a pugilist and eventually is matched with the champ in a brutal bout.

EAST SIDE - WEST SIDE (1923) Drama 54 minutes.
Eileen Percy, Kenneth Harlan.
With Bob Vaughn at the Organ.
Wealthy young author falls in love with his secretary, a poor girl from New York's lower East Side. His socially conscious mother fires her when she hears of the budding romance. A fine little drama produced and directed by Irving Cummings who appeared with Lillian Russell on the stage before entering the movies.
Transferred from an original print.

CHARLEY'S AUNT (1925) Comedy. 75 minutes.
Syd Chaplin, Lucien Littlefield, Ethel Shannon.
With Bob Vaughn at the organ
"Charlie Chaplin's brother" as he was called, finally came into his own with "Charlie's Aunt".
Syd dresses as a eccentric old lady to help his college chums on a dating problem. (She's from Brazil where all the nuts come from). A neat little comedy that got very good reviews.

THE SWAN (1925) Romantic Comedy. 77 minutes.
Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez, Frances Howard.
With Bob Vaughn at the Barton Organ.
This lavish production of royal romance is the first screen production of Ferenc Molnar's play. The sets and decoration are palatial, the acting is top drawer.
For reason of state, a marriage is arranged between the gentle
Princess Alexandria and the philandering Prince Albert nautily played by Adolphe Menjou.
The prince, who delights in wine and women, is uninterested in the princess and initiates an intrigue with a lady-in-waiting. The princess is also interested in another, Dr. Walter, a teacher in the castle.
Transferred on a Rank Cintel from an archival print.

THE PRAIRIE PIRATE (1925) Western
Harry Carey, Jean Dumas, Fred Kohler.
With Philip Carli at the piano.
Venerable cowboy star Harry Carey in a tale of vengeance as he tracks down the gang responsible for his sister death.
"Good lively western with fine action and plot that has effective suspense"...Film Daily.
Transferred from an original multi-tinted print.

THE BELLS (1926) Melodrama 85 minutes
Lionel Barrymore, Boris Karloff, Gustau von Seyfferitz.
With Bob Vaughn at the organ.
An Alsatian innkeeper, (Lionel Barrymore gives his usual great
performances) murders a rich traveler for his gold. He is not suspected of the crime except by a mesmerist
(eerily played by Boris Karloff).
He is however tormented by a avenging conscience, which leads to his doom.
Transferred from the multi-tinted nitrated print.

THE DROP KICK (1927) Drama. 54 minutes.
Richard Barthelmess, Barbara Kent, Dorothy Revier, Hedda Hopper.
With Bob Vaughn at the Barton Organ.
Directed by Millard Webb. Richard Barthelmess was a leading man and
heartthrob in the 1920's and early 30's. The college football star's life is torn apart when the coach commits suicide and he is suspected of being the cause of it. Worried and shunned by all he goes on to win the big game at the last moment when- - -.
Look for a real life football player, John Wayne.
Transferred from an original print.

SAILOR'S HOLIDAY (1929) Comedy. 56 minutes.
Alan Hale, Sally Eilers, Paul Hurst, George Cooper, Mary Carr.
With Bob Vaughn at the Barton organ
This picture was made at the end of the transition period from silent to sound. Silent versions of all-talking films were made for the many surviving silent theaters.
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on shore leave. The story follows their
miss-adventures with the shore patrol, and a lady of the street.
Transferred from the best surviving material. Good Image.

WINDJAMMER (1937) Adventure
George O'Brien, Constance Worth.
Action favorite George O'Brien doffs his cowboy attire for the role of a deputy state's attorney general who has to serve a subpoena on a wealthy yachtman.
The action takes place in the midst of a race, the yacht is wrecked by gun
runners and the survivors are picked up and held for ransom by the crooks.
Transferred from a original print. 60 minutes

NO MAN'S LAW (1927) Western Melodrama 71 minutes.
Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Finlayson, Barbara Kent, and REX The Wonder Horse.
With Philip Carli at the piano
This Hal Roach production, was one of many that starred Rex the wonder horse. Two badmen flee the law into Death Valley. Their mistrust of each other grows when they come upon a prospector and his daughter who are watched over by Rex, a wild horse. The men plot to kill the prospector for his gold and his daughter.

THE TALK OF HOLLYWOOD (1929) Comedy 75 minutes
The first and funniest Spoof of the "talkies", and the most politically incorrect film ever made. Stars: Nat Carr, Faye Marb'e, Hope Sutherland.
Comedy with Music. The first and funniest Spoof of the "talkies", and possibly the most politically incorrect film ever made!
The story harks back to the Vitaphone days and the coming of sound.
J. Pierpont Ginsburgh having put off making his first talkie finally faces reality and starts his musical-comedy-drama-burlesque with disastrous results.
Transferred from the 35mm print at The Library of Congress

MAN ON THE EIFFEL TOWER (1949) Technicolor & Cinecolor
Starring: Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace Director: Burgess Meredith
Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, this superb piece of "continental noir" Charles Laughton is Parisian police inspector Maigret, whose investigation of a rich woman's murder leads him into a battle of wills with a psychotic killer-for-hire and a showdown at the title landmark.
This is the 2004 DVD edition and our #1 seller. You have not seen this movie look this good on tv. Ask anyone who saw it!
Transferred on a Rank Cintel.