A CHRISTMAS CAROL + OLIVER TWIST w/ Organ Score by Peter Krasinski
Sun, Dec 15
|Epsilon Spires
This Holiday Season we offer two silent film adaptations of Charles Dickens classics with live music performed on our Historic Estey pipe organ! A Christmas Carol (1910) and Oliver Twist (1922) starring "the man of a thousand faces" Lon Chaney and Jackie Coogan from Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid"
Time & Location
Dec 15, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
A Christmas Carol (13 mins) restored with new inter-titles. This rare version of the holiday classic was groundbreaking and ambitious at its debut in 1910. The film demonstrates one of the earliest uses of visual effects and trick photography, including double exposure to superimpose the ghosts into the same frame as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Directed by J. Searle Dawley and produced at Thomas Edison Studios in The Bronx, this film was the second oldest surviving screen adaptation of Charles Dicken’s beloved 1843 novella (preceded by the British film Scrooge or Marley’s Ghost from 1901). It features Marc McDermott as Ebenezer Scrooge and Charles Ogle as Bob Cratchit.
Oliver Twist (1922, 74 mins) Oliver is brought up in the harsh workhouse along with all the other orphans - until the day he outrageously asks for more gruel... beginning an adventure that will take him to the depths of London's criminal underworld and…
Tickets
A Christmas Carol!!
$20.00Sliding-Scale Ticket
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