Send in the Clowns
With musical accompaniment by Ben Model
Friday, June 18, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
Includes the following films:
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Max et son chien Dick
1912. France. Directed by Max Linder. With Linder. Silent, with German intertitles. 6 min.
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Caught in a Cabaret
1914. USA. Directed by Mabel Normand. With Normand, Charles Chaplin. Silent. 15 min.
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The Knockout
1914. USA. Directed by Mack Sennett. With Charles Chaplin, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy. Silent. 22 min.
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The Rounders
1914. USA. Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Chaplin, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Silent. 8 min.
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A Night Out
1915. USA. Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Edna Purviance. Silent. 18 min.
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The Butcher Boy
1917. USA. Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. With Arbuckle, Buster Keaton. Silent, with French intertitles. 22 min.
Throughout the silent era an enormous number of talented comedians, mostly refugees from music halls, entertained worldwide audiences with antics that we call “slapstick.” The first of these notables was the Frenchman Max Linder (1883–1925), who committed suicide after a failed Hollywood venture, but not before exerting an enormous influence on Charles Chaplin. Mack Sennett (1880–1960) went from being an actor for D. W. Griffith to founding his own Keystone Studio, a comedy factory that dominated the field and produced the likes of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle (1887–1933), Mabel Normand (c. 1894–1930), and Chaplin (1889–1977). Buster Keaton (1895–1966) became apprentice to Arbuckle after Fatty left Sennett.
In the Film exhibition An Auteurist History of Film
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