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Redding Fest Promo
Topic Started: Jul 2 2010, 09:26 PM (107 Views)
panzer the great & terrible
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Here are the first few paragraphs of our first flyer, which we'll distribute at the S. F. Silent Film Festival:

> Why Silent Movies?
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> Silent cinema is not sound film without talk. It is an art of pure motion, of meaning conveyed through visual subtlety and broadened detail. Silent film presents ideas, emotions and the psychology of characters through images in ways which sound would render obvious or clumsy. The innovators and masters of this art raised visual storytelling to a level that has never been equaled, and still moves us in the twenty-first century.
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> Silent movies are widely available on DVD, but the chance to see a careful selection of superior films with fellow enthusiasts, projected from actual film on a big screen, accompanied, as they originally were, by live music, makes for a rare experience.
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> We offer comedy and tragedy, the folklore and appearance of America a century ago, and great stars of the silent screen: all in brilliant images that will inspire our gifted pianist, Frederick Hodges, at the same moment they inspire you.
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> There are films for kids and hard-core movie fans, but whether you already love the silents or have no experience with them, you will come away feeling you have done something special – had intimate contact with forgotten works of genius. There will be tears in your eyes and emotion in your voice.
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> It’s a promise.



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