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THE SERIALS

Join us for an evening of runaway trains, mysterious villains, secret formulas, hidden rooms, abductions, suspense and chases! Our evening of "Silent Serials" returns you to the thrilling days of yesteryear to discover the movies that started it all. See runaway train rescues, escapes from rooms with collapsing walls, and much much more! Discover the "serial queens", daring women who were the heroes of these pictures...and not merely damsels crying for help while dangling from a cliff. These are the movies that set the formula for everything from Buck Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy to Indiana Jones and Spiderman. Episodes from five different silent serials such as The Hazards of Helen, The Exploits of Elaine and The Trail of the Octopus will be shown in archival 35mm prints preserved by the Library of Congress.

BEN MODEL is one of the USA's leading silent film accompanists, and has been playing piano and organ for silents at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the past 27 years. Ben co-curated MoMA's "Cruel and Unusual Comedy" series and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle retrospective, and also curated Shout!Factory's new "Ernie Kovacs Collection" DVD box set. A five-time recipient of the Meet The Composer grant, Ben is a regular accompanist at classic film festivals around the U.S.A. and in Norway, and performs at universities, museums, and historic theaters. Ben is the producer and co-founder of The Silent Clowns Film Series, now in its 14th season in NYC. Ben's recorded scores can be heard on numerous DVD releases from Kino Video and others. Ben's composed ensemble scores for films by Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd are performed around the U.S. every year by orchestras and by concert bands.