TCM Classic Film Festival 2015: Dream Machine behind the scenes
HAROLD LLOYD: NEW DIMENSIONS IN SIGHT AND SOUND
2018 Turner Classic Film Festival
Friday, April 27, 2018
2:30 pm
Admission: All Pass levels are eligible for this event. No Individual tickets are available for this passholder exclusive event.
Once again Professor Rinaudo will be in grand performance at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood, but this time he won’t be cranking a projector.
Back in the Spring of 2015 the Professor, in conjunction with The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences cranked through a series of the earliest films showcasing the birth of the art of cinema and the progress made in its early years as can be seen in this very short video.
If you are one of the many who will be attending this year’s festival we implore you to make your way to the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater on Friday April 27th at 2:30pm to see the Professor accompany several Harold Lloyd silent short subjects on the Academy’s American Fotoplayer.
The Professor happens to be the “King of the Fotoplayers” as you will see when he plays music and sound effects by pulling levers and cords, and pushing buttons and switches with both hands and feet. See it in action here.
The Fotoplayer is a marvel of an invention that was used to provide music for silent films in the theaters that were too small for live orchestras. The Academy’s American Fotoplayer featured at this event was restored by Joe Rinaudo, Dave Hartman, and team.
The Professor’s assistant will be doing the cranking of the 1909 Power’s projector at this year’s event while the professor provides the musical accompaniment.
Do not miss this special event!
Here is the TCM Film Festival’s own website article:
Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Linwood Dunn Theater, with special guest Suzanne Lloyd, Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter. Join Randy Haberkamp, Managing Director of Preservation and Foundation Programs at the Academy, as Suzanne Lloyd shares the great silent comedian’s stunning 3D photography (including shots of Disneyland in 1955 and Marilyn Monroe poolside), personal home movies, a new 3D conversion of a sequence from Safety Last (1923) and additional Lloyd short subjects: A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919), produced and directed by Hal Roach and co-starring Harold’s frequent leading lady Bebe Daniels and comedian Snub Pollard, and thrill comedy Never Weaken (1921), produced by Roach and co-starring Harold’s real-life leading lady, his future wife (and Suzanne’s grandmother) Mildred Davis. Live accompaniment provided by Joe Rinaudo on the Academy’s newly restored 1917 Fotoplayer, a rare and amazing instrument designed during the era of silent film to provide musical accompaniment and sound effects at movie theaters that could not afford an orchestra. This Fotoplayer is one of only 12 in existence today. (Digital)
For more details on the Linwood Dunn Theater, click here.
Note: All Pass levels are eligible for this event. No Individual tickets are available for this passholder exclusive event.
“PROFESSOR RINAUDO” as silent cinema aficionados call him, has been my friend for fifty years, since junior high school. Back then Joe Rinaudo was collecting 16mm silent films and would put on shows for his friends.