The film festival that's held entirely in a movie theater!
Cinephiles met once again in Massilion Ohio to enjoy projected films in the Lincoln Theater.
For those of you that came and donated towards film preservation in 2004, THANK YOU!
The show was..
The Night of June 13th
(1932)
Produced by Paramount Pictures
Stars: Clive Brook, Lila Lee,
Charlie Ruggles, Gene Raymond,
Frances Dee.
Peyton Place in the suburbs!
A murder trial reveals the drama beneath the surface of four families including suicide, jealousy, and greed. Variety found this little gem "A fine story, absorbingly worked out, with fascinating character studies and a touch of satire."
Paths to Paradise
(1925) Comedy
Starring: Betty Compson, Raymond Griffith, Edgar Kennedy.
Once a forgotten silent comedy with a forgotten comic, Raymond Griffith.
It's a story of a jewel heist, dumb cops and a touch of jealousy that made it worth watching again.
The Rogues' Tavern
(1936)
Produced by Mercury Productions
Stars: Wallace Ford, Barbara Pepper,
Clara Kimball Young, Joan Woodbury.
Weird Happenings In a Sinister Roadside Inn!
Murders, jewels, police, honeymooners and a stormy night...All in a dark hotel!
A grade "A" B whodunit mystery that's fun.
PLUS shorts and?...
throughout the weekend
New this year had our first ever morning mixer to get acquainted on Friday from 8:30 to 9:30 am.
We supplied the doughnuts with coffee and juice at the theater to have a chance to greet new & returning cinephiles.
Gordon Berkow memories...
A mix of silent rarities were shown to honor the memory of Gordon.
He will be missed. Gordon was one of the good guys, he passed away just days before the Cinesation.
All original print titles included:
Out of the Inkwell cartoon
Kodak Park
- how nitrate film was made
Uncle Tom's Habit
- a beaten down man goes on to save the day and moves on the the big city to become a success.
Hitchin' Up
- (Educational Pictures) a Walter Hiers comedy
Wine, Women and Sauerkraut
(1927) a Fox comedy
The Farmers Fatal Folly
(1933)
Educational Pictures short.
Voted the funniest short of the weekend.
along with....
The Preview Murder Mystery
(1936) Produced by Paramount Pictures
Directed by Robert Florey. Stars: Reginald Denny, Frances Drake,
Rod La Rocque, Charlie Ruggles.
Murder on the Paramount back lot!
A matinee idol is murdered at the preview of his latest film.
Problems arise when the suspect is also killed. A host of silent screen favorites show up in nostalgic parts throught this movie. It both entertains and gives an excellent glimpse of the workings of a film studio.
THEIR FIRST DIVORCE CASE
(1911) - early Sennett short
(35mm print - Courtesy George Eastman House)
along with....
Hater Of Men
(1917) Comedy / Drama
PRODUCER: Thomas Ince
Stars: John Gilbert, Bessie Barriscale.
After covering a sensational divorce trial, Janice (Bessie) begins to wonder if she should marry her fiance (John) or dump him to become a modern woman.
La Cucaracha
(1934) IB The first color short
The first live-action featurette to be filmed in the improved 3-strip Technicolor process. It showed off the technological advancement by concentrating on the deep blues, vibrant yellows and vivid purples that were impossible to accurately convey in the old 2-color process.
along with....
Secret of the Blue Room
(1933)
Produced by Universal Pictures
Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart
This "old dark house" movie has a group of wealthy people staying at a mansion. As legend has it, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed.
The three suitors of Irene (Gloria Stuart) wager that each can survive a night in the blue room. The Secret of the Blue Room was one of Universal's cheapest releases of 1933. The set of the mansion is from James Whale's "The Old Dark House" (1932), adding to the production a value
Universal's
Poverty Row competitors couldn't match.
THE TIP
(1918) Harold Lloyd
- Guess who sees a fortune teller? Everything comes true with a twist at the end. A funny comedy short
SOPHIE PICKS A DEAD ONE
(1914)
Both 35mm restorations - courtesy George Eastman House
along with....
Almost a Lady
(1926) Comedy
Stars: Harrison Ford, Marie Prevost, Trixie Friganza
This was going to be this years archive surprise from the Library of Congress, but, it's too good not to advertise!
We will be shownig a
new print straight from the original camera negative
.
Story: Marie Prevost is a model who uses the fancy clothes that she's paid to wear to get into high society. Then love, aka Harrison Ford, gets involved. Do the clothes make the woman a lady?
Man on the Eiffel Tower
(1949)
Tec
hnic
olor
print
Pubilc invited!
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.
UNCLE SAM'S HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES
The Fireless Cooker
(1917) How to shorts
Meatless Meatloaf
(1917) Both new restorations
along with....
Below the Surface
(1920)
Produced by Thomas H. Ince Corporation
Starring: Hobart Bosworth
Irvin Willat's follow up to Behind the Door, not a sequel.
A strong, intriguing story that includes an Illicit affair and retribution.
Variety declared, "Full of action from start to finish, this production has all the ingredients of a success and is bound to interest and please any audience anywhere.There is more action in the first reel than is usually found in the average five-reeler."
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
(1903) Short
From the paper print collection fron the Library of Congress
along with....
PRISCILLA AND THE PESKY FLY
(19??), early stop motion, claymation short (35mm restoration - George Eastman House)
along with....
Opportunity
(1918) Comedy
Newly restored by the George Eastman House
Director: John Collins - his last film.
Starring: Viola Dana.
It's a bit of a sex comedy of mistaken identity. Given the generally hard edge of its director, finding a Collins' comedy is exciting and seeing a "found"
Viola Dana film was a pleasure. Voted one of the weekends best!
Sultan Pepper
(1934)
a Little King Cartoon
Van Beuren Studios
Lots of innuendo and blue gags ensue when the sultan and his harem arrive. The little King is looking for action and cannot find it.
along with....
The Conquering Horde
(1931)
Produced by Paramount Pictures
Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray
It's post-Civil War Texas and the local cattlemen cannot get their livestock to market. Richard Arlen, a Yankee war hero, is sent from Washington to try and solve all the problems. Fay Wray does her best to hate anything & anybody that comes from the North.
Voted "a surprisingly good "A" picture that holds up very well."
Oh, What a Night!
(1926) Comedy
Stars: Raymond McKee, Edna Murphy, Ned Sparks.
and shown that weekend because of Ned Sparks.
Voted the biggest suprise of the show because it was good and funny.
Scandal Sheet
(1931) Produced by Paramount Pictures
Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Lucien Littlefield,
Regis Toomey.
George plays a ruthless editor of a scandal oriented newspaper. He uses his position to go after the man his wife has been seeing, with surprising results.
This movie is supposed to have been inspired by the life of a real tabloid editor!
An Afternoon with the Classic Silent Clowns of Comedy
Public invited!
newly restored print featuring all-original First National titles and a terrific score by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.
FROZEN HEARTS
(1924)
getting involved with criminals and getting tangled up in wax dummies.
La Boheme
(1926) Drama / Romance
Public Invited
Stars: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Edward Everett Horton
King Vidor's lavish production of the Bohemian love story of Mimi and Rodolphe, struggling to find happiness in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It's based on the original romance written by Henri Murger rather than the Puccini opera.
La Boheme was Lillian's first film for MGM and the first time she worked for a major Hollywood studio. But it was a Lillian Gish picture. She instigated the script, chose the director and most of the cast (heavily based on seeing
The Big Parade), picked the cinematographer, her old friend from her Griffith days Hendrick Sartov, who had invented a soft focus lens he called the
"Lillian Gish lens"
New Deal Rhythm
(1932)
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Buddy and the girls sing the title number to promote FDRs newly birthed National Recovery Administration (the NRA).
along with....
The Miracle Man
(1932)
Produced by Paramount Pictures
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Chester Morris,
Hobart Bosworth, Boris Karloff, Ned Sparks
A much overlooked version of the George M. Cohen play has gangsters using a small town faith healer to cure crippled people.
The crook's plan is to use a contortionist, one of the gang, as proof!
The perfect con game, until.....
Everyone who saw this picture, loved it!
Dancers in the Dark
(1932)
Produced by Paramount Pictures
Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Jack Oakie,
George Raft.
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer.
Her boyfriend is in the band and is sent out of town to make things easy. Just as he thinks he has it made, The bandleader finds out a jealous gangster is also in love with the dancer!
Modern Love (1927)
Starring: Charlie Chase
the two odd reels that were found in the Library of Congress' vaults
along with....
The Library of Congress Silent ARCHIVE SURPRISE
Short
Who's Your Father (1918) Comedy/Action
Produced by Fox
Starring and directed by Tom Mix.
The intertitles had to be translated but the short was shown in order and complete. A funny curio.
along with....
Feature
Newly restored color print!
CAST: Annette Kellerman
~She was played by Ester Williams in Million Dollar Mermaid, now experience the real Annette Kellerman swimming happily. ~
Photoplay, in 1924, offered this short but positive review.
"Annette Kellerman, the girl that made the one-piece bathing suit famous -- comes back to her old time form. She is wonderful in the water, but when she attempts the emotional scenes devised by an ambitious scenario writer -- well, you know what Sherman said about war. However, this romance of the South Seas gives her an opportunity to perform numerous aquatic feats, which she does with her accustomed grace and skill."
The Smallest Show on Earth
(1957) Comedy
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford
Director: Basil Dearden
A young couple inherit an old run down theater (The Bijou) and it's eccentric cashier, doorman and projectionist. Against stiff competition they decide to keep it open.
One Cinesation bonus that everyone loves is the "Archive surprise"
and it will return possibly featuring items of interest along with the representatives from:
The Library of Congress. Surprise is Sunday
The George Eastman House. Through-out the weekend
