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From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Silent Films with live music
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 16:25:05 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  4 16:25:05 1985
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In article <396@ptsfc.UUCP> rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) writes:
>
>  Quite often, the Castro Theatre here shows silent movies with live
>  organ accompaniment by Robert Vaughn (not the Man from U.N.C.L.E. :-))
>  and they're always sold out.
>-- 
>
> rod williams | pacific bell | san francisco
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The first silent film I saw was also the first I saw with organ
accompaniment.  I saw it here in San Francisco at a place called the Avenue
Theatre.  They had a fairly complete original print of "Ben Hur," plus part
of a print that was in Technicolor.  The organist was Robert Vaughn, and I
believe that he also has a large collection of old films, which he had shown
at the Avenue on Friday and Saturday nights.  Unfortunately, the theatre had
to stop showing these movies because the owners wanted more rent for it.  I
hear from a friend of mine that they are trying to find someplace else to
have these movies, but have not succeeded.  The Castro Theatre is the only
other one I have seen in the city which still has an organ, especially one
which is actually used.

                                Muffy