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If you like silent movies this is the club for you. Even though I named the club Silent screams that was just a dedication to my favorite kind of movies silent horror films. Please view art criteria for what is ok to submit. So get some popcorn and your favorite soda pop and find the beast seat in the house the show is about to begin.

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R.I.P. BOB MITCHELL (1912-2009)

He was a silent movie organist at the LA Silent Movie Theater. He actually saw Phantom when it first showed and often plaid organ for Silent movies. He plaid right up until his death at the Silent Movie Theater in La. I had the pleasure of see him play for such movies as POTO, Nosferatu, Laugh Clown Laugh and many others. This is truly a loss to any silent movies fan. He never used sheet music he remembered all the scores cause he was there. I had the pleasure of talking with him many times and shared awesome stories. This is truly a tragedy. IF you want to see him in action type Bob Mitchell silent movies theater into youtube. You'll find him.



Cinefamily,

I have sad news. Our organist, Bob Mitchell, has passed on at the age of 96. I did not know Mr. Mitchell well, but I did have the pleasure of seeing him play many times over the past year and a half. Mr. Mitchell, who started playing at the Pasadena Playhouse at the age of only 12 years old, had actually played for silent films in the '20s. It was a pleasure and a privilege to witness someone who wasn't just a master at his craft, but was a human portal to another time. There will be wonderful silent musicians continuing the tradition of live, improvised accompaniment, but there was a certain unforgeable authenticity that comes from not simply recreating another time, but being of it. Bob's entire musical background and earliest memories lent a texture to his performance that was quite unique; his musical quotations, his sense of humour, his reference points were all of the era. He knew and remembered the songs and themes that were contemporaneous with the films he accompanied, and would weave them into the scores at natural points. If you were watching William Hart's silent western Tumbleweeds -- sure enough, he would play the hit song "Tumbleweeds" as the credits rolled.

It is short notice, but tomorrow, before our screening of Greta Garbo's Love, we will have a short memorial for Bob.


~Silence please


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Anything to do with the era between 1880-1930 is welcome although I'd prefer things to do with the movie industry.
Silent movies, silent movie stars.
Talkies as long as it was made in the time frame I previously stated
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