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A discussion about and look into the stories, the history and personalities that came together to make the silent film "Beverly of Graustark" in 1926. Directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno and Creighton Hale.This episode also features a discussion with talented silent film accompanist, all-around film historian and generally cool dude, Ben Model!Bluesky - @goldensilentscastInstagram - goldensilentscastTwitter/X - @goldensilents1Ben Model - silentfilmmusic.com

Today on bonus edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast we are dropping a special episode in addition to this week's episode with Brendan Wayne. Our guest today is Ben Model who in addition to being a silent film accompanist, is also the archivist for the estates of Edie Adams and Ernie Kovacs. We spoke to Ben today because (drum doll please) (Add drumroll)*, on Ernie's birthday, Thursday January 23 at 7pm EST, we will be screening the previously lost, final episode of the Ernie Kovacs gameshow Take a Good Look on the YouTube channel of Clown Jewels. And if you tune in, join the live commentary with Ben and host Josh Mills, the son of Edie Adams and grand poo bah of the Ernie Kovacs estate. The very next day, on Friday January 24, Clown Jewels is releasing a brand new, Ernie Kovacs album of previously unreleased material from his radio show entitled Mayhem in the AM: The Lost Radio Comedy of Ernie Kovacs on all digital outlets. Both these projects are years in the making and we can't wait to share this with both our podcast fans as well as Ernie

This week Harrison interviews Ben Model, who is an acclaimed Silent Film Accompanist, has a boutique label for silent film releases, and Silent film aficionado! We discuss his career and his company Undercrank Productions new release "The Bat (1926)" a newly restored print of the film along with his accompaniment. Buy "The Bat (1926)" Here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGLXSRYB?ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_2CNZHM04JJNTZMKS6XZX&ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_2CNZHM04JJNTZMKS6XZX&social_share=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_2CNZHM04JJNTZMKS6XZX&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1 Ben's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/silentfilmmusic Ben's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@silentfilmmusic/featured Ben's Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1symNewdPz4kh7V74z4mw0?si=ce001be677ec4954 Ben's Website: https://silentfilmmusic.com/ Undercrank Productions Website: https://undercrankproductions.com/ Join my Discord!: https://discord.gg/VWcP6ge2 Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/reelyoldmovies

TVC 641.2: Josh Mills and Pat Thomas talk to Ed about Ernie Kovacs' many collaborations and longtime friendship with Jack Lemmon; how the format for Ernie's successful morning show in Philadelphia inspired NBC to develop The Today Show; how Kovacs was the first to understand that television was an intimate form; and how Ernie's influence can be seen in the antics of comedian Soupy Sales. Josh and Pat are two of the co-authors, along with Ben Model, of Ernie in Kovacsland, a marvelously conceived book that not only gives readers a true glimpse into the mind of Ernie Kovacs, but shows the many media outlets for Ernie's creativity that went beyond television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 641.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Josh Mills, son of Edie Adams and the curator of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, and Pat Thomas, author of Invitation to Openness: the Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann, Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg, and Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary. Josh and Pat are two of the co-authors, along with Ben Model, of Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius, a marvelously conceived book that not only gives readers a true glimpse into the mind of Ernie Kovacs, but shows the many media outlets for Ernie's creativity that went beyond television. Topics this segment include the back story of Zoomar, the satirical novel about advertising and television that Ernie published in 1957, but which is still timely today; Take a Good Look, the “anti-game show” that Ernie hosted (ABC, 1959-1961) that, in many respects, is also the essence of Ernie Kovacs; and the perforated, three-page foldout in Ernie in Kovacsland that pays homage to Ernie's long association with MAD magazine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 640.2: Josh Mills and Pat Thomas talk to Ed about The Silent Show, the iconic NBC special from January 1957 that is the only Ernie Kovacs television show to be broadcast in color. Other topics this segment include how Kovacs was a constant presence on television from 1950 until his death in January 1962 (even though he never had a “long-running” series, per se); his incredible knack for generating publicity; and how the Percy Dovetonsils poem “Thoughts While Falling Off the Empire State Building” is one example of how Kovacs came to influence the Yippies and the Beat generation. Josh and Pat are two of the co-authors, along with Ben Model, of Ernie in Kovacsland, a marvelously conceived book that not only gives readers a true glimpse into the mind of Ernie Kovacs, but shows the many media outlets for Ernie's creativity that went beyond television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 640.1: Ed welcomes Josh Mills, son of Edie Adams and the curator of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, and author Pat Thomas (Invitation to Openness: the Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann, Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary). Josh and Pat are two of the co-authors, along with Ben Model, of Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius, a marvelously conceived, non-linear book that gives readers a true glimpse into the mind of Ernie Kovacs. Topics this segment include how, in many ways, Ernie in Kovacsland is an outgrowth of Edie's tireless preservation of all things Ernie Kovacs; how she recognized that Ernie was doing something special before anyone else did; and how Kovacs' influence extends to such counter-cultural figures as Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Alice Cooper, and the original writers and performers of Saturday Night Live. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ben Model joins us on the show today! Ben is doing everything possible to promote a love for Silent Film to the masses, including running Undercrank Productions, scoring piano tracks to silent films, and teaching on the subject where possible. He is an extraordinary talent and everyone should be checking out these releases when possible and supporting silent film preservation! - Ben Model's Website: https://silentfilmmusic.com Undercrank Production Website: https://undercrankproductions.com Ben's YouTube Channel:  @silentfilmmusic  https://www.youtube.com/@silentfilmmusic The Silent Film Music Podcast: https://silentfilmmusic.com/the-silent-film-music-podcast/ -Buy The Physical Media Advocate on Amazon! https://amzn.to/47g41qY - Follow Someone's Favorite Productions on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/someonesfavoriteproductions/ Follow Someone's Favorite Productions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/somefaveprod Follow Someone's Favorite Productions on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeonesFavoriteProductions - Follow Shelf Shock Rewind on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shelf_Shock Follow Shelf Shock Rewind on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelfshockrewind/ Follow Shelf Shock Rewind on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShelfShockRewind Follow Shelf Shock Rewind on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@shelfshockrewind1231 - Become a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/DiscConnected - Like the page and follow on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/TheDiscConnected - Join me on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/thediscconnected/ - Or on Twitter: https://twitter.com/disc_connected - Email: DiscConnectedMedia@gmail.com -- Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-disc-connected - Podcast: https://thediscconnected.podbean.com - If you happen to be shopping on Amazon for something and would like to share some of Lord Bezos' profits with my channel at no additional cost to you, please consider shopping through my link: https://amzn.to/39mcX1t - Tip Jar: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=TDEVSPJZ9EFCW or paypal.me/RVinls (friends and family only) or  Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/20CR2ZN456P1B?ref_=wl_share - Music is by Michael J. LeRose- michaelxcreates@gmail.com. Outro is K(NO)W by Crusoe via a Creative Commons Attribution License and verbal/written permission from the artist. - Links above may be affiliate/promotional links that provide me a tiny commission to support the sight and do not charge the consumer anything extra.

Today on the Rarified Hair Podcast we are sending you across the orthicon tube with a special edition bonus episode in celebration of the upcoming Fantagraphics book, “Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings and Photographs from Television's Original Genius”. Our host today is co-author Pat Thomas (although left to Pat, you'd never know that as you will soon hear), co-author Ben Model and our Rarified Heir Podcast host & co-author Joshua Mills is talking about the in's and out's of creating this new book, coming July 25. It's a deep dive today with details about the genesis of the book, why the book was even created and some great stories about how this book came to be. We talk Ernie. We talk Edie Adams. We talk Mia Kovacs and we talk about Josh's dad, photographer Marty Mills. This time the child of a celebrity is interviewed not by the child of a celebrity but co-authors Pat Thomas and Ben Model. Everyone has a story. Here's one about Ernie in Kovacsland. Take a listen.

The 100th Episode: David Hammond Interviews Michael Gebert • Most Frequent Guest Ben Model on Tom Mix and More • Susan Delson on Soundies and African-American Performers (103:04)

Silent film accompanist Ben Model chats with Caroline about starting Undercrank Productions ten years ago, when he was drawn to silent film and which of his releases he is proudest of. 

Silent Film expert and founder of Undercrank Productions, Ben Model joins us to talk about the importance and joy of silent movies. Caught My Eye explores how people think about cyclists wearing helmets, and Ben & Jerry's has stopped advertising on Twitter due to all the unmonitored hate language on the platform. We're all business. Except when we're not. Apple Podcasts: apple.co/1WwDBrCSpotify: spoti.fi/2pC19B1iHeart Radio: bit.ly/2n0Z7H1Tunein: bit.ly/1SE3NMbStitcher: bit.ly/1N97ZquGoogle Podcasts: bit.ly/1pQTcVWPandora: pdora.co/2pEfctjYouTube: bit.ly/1spAF5aAlso follow Tim and John on:Facebook: www.facebook.com/focusgroupradioTwitter: www.twitter.com/focusgroupradioInstagram: www.instagram.com/focusgroupradio

Ben Model has dedicated himself to creating music scores to bring silent films back to glorious life. This month marks a special anniversary for Model since it was ten years ago that he created Undercrank Productions to produce and distribute quality DVD and now Blu-ray releases of rare silent films featuring scores he has created. He discusses the process to creating these scores and his passion to save these films and share them with new audiences.

Our guest today is Maggie Hennefeld, McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who has co-curated a dvd set of the medium's early female comedians titled Cinema's First Nasty Women. Maggie talks us through the current resurgence in interest in silent cinema and the global landscape of festivals, supporters and restoration projects, as well as her own journey of scholarship in the field that led to her collaborating on this important project. All this interest seems long overdue considering the fantastically experimental and entertaining material, which is raucous, varied and vast, often making radical social commentary that still resonates today. Maggie vividly describes several highlights in this comprehensive collection, and the women who were behind and in front of the camera. In addition to assembling, restoring and annotating the films, the team also engaged over 45 mostly female composers to write and perform both traditional and avant-garde scores for each film, and she talks extensively about that process. We also discuss the erasure of this material from the silent film canon, and women from comedy (among many other fields) in general, and how these films both give us a new understanding of comedy in this era, even as they inform our on-going struggles with sexism and racism today, by showing us images of women that are simultaneously empowering and troubling. All films are contextualized with expert commentary, allowing them to be used in classrooms or otherwise as jumping-off points for deeper conversation. Finally, Maggie shares some thoughts from the book she's currently working on about the notion of “hysterical laughter” and its supposed danger to women.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Cinema's First Nasty WomenDVD Booklet InsertMaggie Hennefeld's other publications:Death from Laughter, Female Hysteria and Early CinemaSpecters of Slapstick and Silent Film ComediennesOther Curators of the set:Laura Horak – Girls Will Be BoysElif Rongen-Kaynakçi – EYE filmmuseumHenry Jenkins, What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville AestheticCharlotte GreenwoodFanny BriceLupe VélezWinnie LightnerAli WongSarah SilvermanWanda SykesJames Agee – “Comedy's Greatest Era”Charlie Chaplin in Mable's Strange PredicamentSilent Film CultureWomen and the Silent ScreenNitratevilleSilent LondonEdward Everett HortonSteve Massa and Ben Model – silent comedy Watch PartySilent Film FestivalsPordenone Film FestivalBologna Film FestivalSan Francisco Silent Film FestivalEl Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México Hippodrome film festivalTrump – “Nasty Women”Film ScholarsArigon StarrLiza BlackShelley Stamp Female Filmmakers, Producers, and ComediansAlice Guy-BlachéBertha RegustusDorothy ArznerFay TincherIda LupinoLéontineLois WeberMabel NormandMinnie Devereaux – “Fatty and Minnie He-Haw”Sarah DuhamelTexas GuinanSilent Film MusicDana Reason – ScoreDreamland FacesGonca Feride VarolGuenter BuchwaldJosé María Serralde RuizMeg MorleyNeil BrandSteven HorneTerri Lyne CarringtonNasty Women team on Nitrateville RadioOur previous Episode 30: The forgotten women of early filmmakingHistory of the Tom BoyNancy WalkerPeg Bracken – The I Hate to Housekeep Book / I Hate to Cook BookDaisiesThe UnknownArrest Warrant – Ukranian silent cinemaWhat's Up Doc?Undercrank Productions (silent film restoration)Online screenings from the Bologna and Pordenone film festivalsZiegfeld FolliesHal Roach StudiosShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Ben Model is a talented pianist who travels the world accompanying silent movies…but that's just the tip of the iceberg. He's a good guy who wears many hats: historian, proselytizer, promoter, preservationist, teacher, and distributor, to name just a few. He blew Leonard and Jessie's minds when he unveiled his research about variable running times for silent films and proved how Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others used the hand-cranking of the camera to their benefit. See for yourself at https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Undercranking-lecture1.jpg You can learn more about Ben and his activities at www.silentfilmmusic.com.

Sometimes our lives unfold. We have interests, drives, gifts and circumstances that move us in one direction. Ben Model is no different. He had an interest at a young age in silent film. He just happened to live in the same town as Walter Kerr, who basically wrote the book on silent film, and was able to spend time with Mr. Kerr. When Ben went to college, he was able to put to use his piano lessons accompanying silent films in film class.

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we bring you yet another first on this episode. We are talking to our first great-grandchild of a celebrity. We are talking today with Keaton Talmadge who is a the great-grandchild of comedy genius Buster Keaton as well as silent film star Natalie Talmadge. Whoa. We talk to Keaton about growing up in an era where most had no idea what Buster Keaton looked like – you will hear an example of that on the episode, as incomprehensible as it might sound. We also talk about the Brooklyn-born Talmadge sisters, of which her mother was one, who were incredibly famous in the silent film era. Sisters Constance and Norma were at one time named the top female film stars of 1921. We're talking big! So what did we talk about with Keaton? We talk about the century old legacy of Buster and how, still today, there are dedications and events in his name, all the time. We also talk to Keaton about her own career as a voice over actor, who has voiced roles in television, commercials, podcasts, video games and more for everyonre from Apple to Netflix to Nintendo and more. In fact, Keaton schools our host Josh Mills on everything from Looping to E-learning. We also talk about Keaton's time at Cal Arts, studying to become an actress, her years auditioning, how she started a Hula-Hoop company (you know, for kids) and how she landed at the perfect spot in her acting career, right now. It's all next on the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.

On this episode Chris interviews Ben Model, founder of Undercrank Productions and world's leading silent film accompanist, alongside special guests, Kirk McDowell, Assistant Collection Manager at George Eastman Museum, and Captaingibb, Mod from r/criterion and silent film expert. www.theylivebyfilm.com https://www.patreon.com/theylivebyfilm Adam's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/TheOwls23/ Zach's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/dharmabombs/ Chris' subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalhistoryoffilm/ www.instagram.com/theylivebyfilm/

Today we bring you a first on the Rarified Heir Podcast, a bonus episode in tribute to Gilbert Gottfried and the Gilbert Gottfried Amazing Colossal Podcast. Our guest today is not a child of a celebrity but Ben Model is the archivist to the Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams archive which is run by our host Josh Mills. In 2019, Ben and Josh were guests on the Gilbert Gottfried Amazing Colossal Podcast to celebrate the Centennial of Ernie Kovacs. Truly shocked and saddened by Gilbert's passing last week, Ben and Josh wanted to share some stories about how terrific their time was on the Gilbert Gottfried Amazing Colossal Podcast and how warm, funny and truly insane Gilbert and co-host Frank Santopadre were n he best possible ways. Clearly not celebrities, Frank took a chance on having Ben and Josh on as guests because he knew Kovacs was an important comedy figure and perhaps they should take a chance to talk about Kovacs to listeners who maybe knew about him but perhaps not enough. Somehow by taking that chance, the episode in question became an odd mix of silent film accompaniment, risqué stories about Josh's mom that Gilbert loved and by both accounts, a moment that happens all too rare in life – a genuine connection. Basically, this bonus episode is a tribute to Gilbert Gottfried and also a huge thank you to Frank Santopadre & unofficial podcast booker Gino Salamone for taking a chance on two nobodies who just thought it would be a fun idea. We miss you Gilbert. We are sorry there wont be a second chance to connect but we know you are cursing out Walter Brennan in heaven and that makes us smile. We'll miss you Gil.

Ben Model on Raymond Griffith, Marion Davies and More Silent Stars via Kickstarter • Eric Hoyt on the Golden Age of Hollywood Trade Papers (90:40)

In this week's podcast episode, we talk with Ben Model about silent films. Ben is a college instructor, as well as a composer of scores for silent films. Ben will be at the Kansas Silent Film Festival February 24-26 in Topeka, Kansas. https://www.facebook.com/KansasSilentFilmFestival/http://undercrankproductions.com/silentfilmmusic.comsilentcomedywatchparty.comyoutube.com/silentfilmmusicThanks for listening!

I've been fascinated by silent film accompanists ever since I saw an organist playing jaunty tunes for Charlie Chaplin shorts at a local pizza parlor as a kid. Accompanist, composer and film historian Ben Model has accompanied silent films since his college years. His career has taken him around the world. In pandemic time, he's found a new international audience from his living room, streaming comedy shorts and live accompaniment via The Silent Comedy Watch Party with his co-host, film historian Steve Massa. We talked about Ben's unusual career, creating the perfect score, and how to reach an audience whether they think they like silent movies or not. You can listen here at Anchor. The show is also available on Spotify, PocketCasts, Breaker, and Radio Public. You can learn more about Ben Model at his website Watch The Silent Comedy Watch Party Follow Ben on Instagram and Twitter Next episode posts Wednesday, November 17. Stay tuned! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/k-cruver/support

In a jam-packed Episode Seventeen and to help him discuss the 1928 silent short, You're Darn Tootin', Patrick welcomes two new, first-time special guests to the Blogcast. First up is silent film accompanist, blogger, podcaster and host of The Silent Comedy Watch Party, Ben Model. Then Patrick welcomes his second guest, another world-renowned silent film accompanist, composer and playwright, Neil Brand. Both guests discuss their Laurel and Hardy backstories and answer the Atoll question, as well as explaining how they each went about composing a score for You're Darn Tootin'. To join the ‘Blog-Heads' Facebook Group, click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2920310948018755 To purchase CDs of the Beau Hunks Orchestra's music contained in these podcasts, click here: https://amzn.to/2CgeCbK For more information about The Laurel & Hardy Blog, click here: http://www.blog-heads.com/ To purchase Blog-Heads T-shirts and merchandise, visit our Redbubble storefront here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/BlogHeads/shop To visit The Laurel & Hardy Blog's Amazon storefront, click here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/laurelandhardyblog To read the blog on You're Darn Tootin' click here: https://laurel-and-hardy-blog.com/2018/11/16/21-youre-darn-tootin-1928/ Visit Ben Model's website here: https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/ Visit Neil Brand's website here: https://www.neilbrand.com/

Ben Model on Edward Everett Horton comedies on DVD • Andrew A. Erish on Vitagraph: America's First Great Movie Studio • Stephen Horne on music for Silent Sirens (98:10)

Post WW1, F.W. Murnau directs this German-Danish co-production, showcasing some of his best intentions toward future films. Der Gang in die Nacht (Journey into the Night) is derived from a screenplay by the Danish scenarist Harriet Bloch. It’s an example of the “nobility film,” a genre cultivated by the Nordisk studio where Bloch worked. In these stories, an upper-class man becomes obsessed with a working-class woman, and she leads him to disaster. In Murnau’s film, the well-to-do protagonist is Dr. Eigil Börne. Uneasy with his courtship of his wispy fiancée Helene, he plunges into an affair with the dancer Lily. They move to a seaside cottage, where their idyll is interrupted by the spectral figure of a blind artist (Conrad Veidt). After Dr. Börne restores the Painter’s sight, Lily falls in love with him and leaves Börne. Unhappiness ensues for all, and yes, suicide is involved. Be sure to join KANOPY if you currently have not. Check your local and surrounding libraries for access and entertainment. KANOPY is available throughout the United States. For a "live" accompaniment experience in the current age of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ben Model's Silent Comedy Watch Party on YouTube is a great way to enjoy film and live entertainment. https://www.youtube.com/user/silentfilmmusic One of Adam's film picks this week included Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford in 1927's The Unknown. A great article on Murnau before Nosferatu: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/11/06/murnau-before-nosferatu/?fbclid=IwAR00jtMv4kcCR-AMnDKFQ7_3cCvqqvDkkvGOHQXXjbPn53NEenltRqw-Rl0 Hosted by YiFeng and Adam. Recorded on October 22, 2020

We have a special interview w/ silent film accompanist Ben Model [8:31] along with opening 6 new titles in the screening room: CONVICTION (2018) [35:51] | SON OF THE WHITE MARE [41:37] | ETERNAL BEAUTY [48:11] | BEAU TRAVAIL [56:59] | YOU NEVER HAD IT – AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI [1:02:20] | BATTERED (1989) [1:10:52] For our Programmer’s Picks we preview our AFI Latin American Film Festival: EMA (2019) [1:20:02] | LA LLORONA (2019) [1:28:12] | FAUNA [1:33:13]

Silent Film accompanist and historian, Ben Model, stops by the show to talk about one of his favorite movies, Modern Times.  This was Charlie Chaplin's last time to play the "Little Tramp" character he was so famous for and the movie is filled with social and political commentary that feels strangely relevant today. Ben Model on Twitter: @silentfilmmusic Ben Model's Website: https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/ Our Website: https://www.ilovethatmoviepodcast.com/ Catch up with us on Twitter: @ILTMPodcast Instagram: @ILovethatMoviePodcast Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ilovethatmovie Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/i-love-that-movie-podcast   Discord https://discord.gg/qe2kqA   Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ilovethatmoviepodcast/  

Silent-film accompanist Ben Model checks in from the Upper West Side of NYC. We talk about how the pandemic and self-isolation led him and his partner Steve Massa to launch the Silent Comedy Watch Party, a livestream on YouTube that airs every Sunday at 3pm EDT. We also get into the ups and downs of Zoom teaching, the challenges of playing piano for a telepresent audience, how he can't wait for New Yorkers to get pushy again, and more. Watch the Silent Comedy Watch Party and follow Ben on Twitter and Instagram • Listen to our full-length podcast • More info at our site • Find all our COVID Check-In episodes • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

53: Author Donna Rifkind on Salka Viertel and 1930s Hollywood Emigrés in The Sun and Her Stars • Ben Model on Accompanying Socially Distanced Silents at The Silent Comedy Watch Party (84:02)

To mark the centennial year of TV legend Ernie Kovacs, Gilbert and Frank welcome historian Josh Mills and Kovacs archivist Ben Model for a look back at the pioneering broadcaster's lasting impact and influence on David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Monty Python and The Kids in the Hall (among others). Also, Billy Wilder comes to dinner, Ernie shoots a pilot with Buster Keaton, Jack Lemmon joins the Nairobi Trio and Josh remembers his mom (and Kovacs' widow), Edie Adams. PLUS: Percy Dovetonsils! "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"! Josh meets Groucho Marx! Edie dates Peter Sellers! And Gilbert "inspires" a silent film score! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the late 19th, century a new industry began; filmmaking. In the beginning, it was open to anyone – man or woman – who wanted to try. That would change once big money got involved, and some would be pushed aside and forgotten about. Are you ready to hear the story of a remarkable woman named Alice Guy Blaché who helped create the art of film and how Hollywood and history left her behind? Today I repeat the story of Alice Guy Blaché on the 185th episode of Coffee with Jeff. Show notes and links: * The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché (1995) (youtube.com) * The Cabbage Fairy (1896) – 1st Female Filmmaker – ALICE GUY BLACHE – La Fee aux Choux (youtube.com) * Alice Guy-Blaché – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) * “Falling Leaves” (1912) silent film dir by Alice Guy Blaché – piano score by Ben Model (youtube.com) * This link has no title (columbia.edu) * Home | Alice Guy Blaché (aliceguyblache.com) * Fort Lee: The Film Town by Richard Koszarski, Paperback (barnesandnoble.com) * Home | Alice Guy Blaché (aliceguyblache.com)

Join us as we go back to some of the earlier Westerns, two films by the great silent cowboy Tom Mix (not to mention Tony the Wonder Horse) - The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926) and Outlaws of Red River (1927). We were fortunate enough to see both at the 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival, featuring gorgeous prints by the Museum of Modern Art and exciting accompaniment by Ben Model. Ben was also gracious enough to join us for an interview to provide his silent film expertise as well as a look at his unique profession. Please rate, subscribe, and check out our other episodes. Also be sure to follow the show, Felicity, Clarence, and Ben. Thanks for listening!

Ben Model on Douglas MacLean Kickstarter • John Soister on The Man Who Laughs and The Last Warning • Josh Mills on Ernie Kovacs (82:03)

Our discussion of W. C. Fields' It's a Gift continues with a surprise episode by Visiting Professor Ben Model! Model explores Fields' surprisingly rich history of silent film. How does such a verbal comedian come to make silent films? How do they fit into his body of work? Model uses It's the Old Army Game, the predecessor to It's A Gift, as a jumping off point for these questions and more.

Ernie Kovacs was a pioneering force in early television and helped lay the foundations of what would later become Late Night Comedy. Ben Model is a renowned silent film accompanist and as an archivist has help preserve and restore lost and damaged films. He's also one of the leading voices who helped the Library of Congress acquire the massive back catalogue of Kovacs films in 2015, and helped curate the impressive 9-disc ERNIE KOVACS: CENTENNIAL EDITION for Shout! Factory, available now. For those who know NOTHING about Kovacs, Ben breaks down the great bits and game-changers that may still impress all these years later. Special thanks to Josh Mills for helping arrange this conversation, and you can get more silent films from Ben through his Undercrank Productions film label at silentfilmmusic.com. Hail Satire! is hosted and produced by Vic Shuttee. Originally recorded on November 19, 2018.

Ben Model is one of the nation’s leading silent film accompanists, and he works full-time presenting and accompanying silent films in a wide variety of venues around the USA and internationally. His indie DVD label Undercrank Productions has released several discs of rare/lost silent films, including films preserved by the Library of Congress. Tim takes note that McDonald's is starting to sell "Muffin Toppers" and phallic graffiti you can see from orbit caught John's eye. We're all business. Except when we're not. Apple Podcasts: apple.co/1WwDBrC iHeart Radio: bit.ly/2n0Z7H1 Tunein: bit.ly/1SE3NMb Stitcher: bit.ly/1N97Zqu Google Podcasts: bit.ly/1pQTcVW YouTube: bit.ly/1spAF5a Also follow Tim and John on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/focusgroupradio Twitter: www.twitter.com/focusgroupradio Instagram: www.instagram.com/focusgroupradio

NitrateVille Radio Ep. 23 | TCM Film Festival with Nitrate Diva Nora Fiore • Ben Model on Undercranking and Alice Howell • Dave Kehr on Fox Precodes at MOMA

100 years of organ in science fiction film, television, radio and new media - including history, analysis, a how-to demonstration, and an interview with Ben Model, silent film historian/composer/performer! Silent Film Music Undercrank Productions From Archive.org Tom Corbett Space Cadet (1950) - (18 min) Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) - (1 min) Killers from Space (1954) - (41 min) Destroy All Planets (1968) - (beginning, 50min) Track of the Moon Beast (1976) - (39 min) The Alpha Incident (1978) - (beginning, 1:31) SciFiMusic with RedBlueBlackSilver Theme (Atlas) by RedBlueBlackSilver / Io, Prometheus, and Bloom by RedBlueBlackSilver - available for free at RedBlueBlackSilver's Bandcamp Site

Ben Model, silent film accompanist for the Museum of Modern Art and others, on new crowdfunding models for silent film releases like Marion Davies in When Knighthood Was in Flower (63:00)

In the late 19th century a new industry began, filmmaking. In the beginning, it was open to anyone, man or women, who wanted to try. That would change once big money got involved, and some would be pushed aside and forgotten about. Are you ready to hear that story of a remarkable woman named Alice Guy Blaché who helped create the art of film and how Hollywood and history left her behind? Today we have her story. Show notes and links: * The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché (1995) (youtube.com) * The Cabbage Fairy (1896) – 1st Female Filmmaker – ALICE GUY BLACHE – La Fee aux Choux (youtube.com) * “Falling Leaves” (1912) silent film dir by Alice Guy Blaché – piano score by Ben Model (youtube.com) * Alice Guy-Blaché – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) * Alice Guy Blaché – Women Film Pioneers Project (columbia.edu) * Home | Alice Guy Blaché (aliceguyblache.com) * Fort Lee: The Film Town by Richard Koszarski, Paperback (barnesandnoble.com)

More than 30 of the year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2016 and the books they hope to get to in 2017! Guests include Glen Baxter, Ross Benjamin, Harold Bloom, MK Brown, Nina Bunjevac, Hayley Campbell, David M. Carr, Myke Cole, Liza Donnelly, Bob Eckstein, Glynnis Fawkes, Rachel Hadas, Liz Hand, Glenn Head, Virginia Heffernan, Harry Katz, Ed Koren, David Leopold, Arthur Lubow, Michael Maslin, David Mikics, Ben Model, Christopher Nelson, Jim Ottaviani, Ann Patty, Burton Pike, Frank Sorce, Willard Spiegelman, Leslie Stein, Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins), Andrea Tsurumi, Carol Tyler, Jim Woodring, and me, Gil Roth! Check out their selections at our site! Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Mark and Aaron welcome Ben Model, silent film historian, accompanist, distributor, and enthusiast. He gave a presentation about “undercranking” on Criterion's release of Chaplin's The Kid. We discuss the idea of undercranking, scoring silent music, and the state of silent media today theatrically and in the home video market. Episode Links & Notes Special Guest: Ben Model from Silent Film Music and Undercrank Productions. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 0:00 – Intro and Welcome Ben 1:15 – Ben's Criterion Connection 4:00 – Discussion and explanation of undercranking 18:20 – Ben's background 24:00 –Silent films on Criterion and other labels 27:20 – Silent Film Kickstarters 38:00 – Silent Film discussion Silent Film Music – YouTube Silent Film Music podcast Kickstarter – Accidentally Preserved Rare and Lost Silent Films Kickstarter – When Knighthood Was in Flower Kickstarter – The Bridge's Play Kickstarter – Pioneers of African-American Cinema Movies Silently – Top Five Silent Film Directors Seriously Funny – The Films of Leo McCarey Episode Credits Mark Hurne: Twitter | Letterboxd Aaron West: Twitter | Blog | Letterboxd Criterion Close-Up: Facebook | Twitter | Email Next time on the podcast: The Player

Mark and Aaron welcome Ben Model, silent film historian, accompanist, distributor, and enthusiast.

BenModel joins the show to talk about his career as a silent-filmaccompanist. It's a fascinating conversation about music, audience,cinema, mentorship, technology, crowdsourcing, the permission to laugh, thefleetingness of reputation, the reasons we make art, and why littlekids lose their minds over the Stan Laurel short Oranges andLemons. More info at our site • Support The VirtualMemories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Ben Model accompanies silent movies on a piano. Here he explains how, why, and how you can learn to appreciate silent film. silent

Comedy reigns supreme on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, Wednesday, June 26, 3 pm ET, when Halli hosts The Halli Casser-Jayne Show's Silent Comedy Fest starring Chaplin the Musical's Tony Award Nominee, Rob McClure; author Trav SD; one of the leading silent film's accompanists Ben Model, and from SLAPSTICON 2013, Richard Roberts. That's right, batten down the hatches for a show that promises to be a laugh a minute when Halli is joined by her guests: author Trav SD whose brand-spanking new book CHAIN OF FOOLS, Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to YouTube will tickle your soul. Meet Ben Model, historian, who has been playing piano and organ for silents at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York for the past 28 years. Ben also curated Shout! Factory's new "Ernie Kovacs Collection" DVD box set. Then travel with Halli to Indiana University Cinema for a sneak peek at SLAPSTICON 2013, a four-day Film Festival beginning June 27th that is devoted to the revived exhibition of rare silent and early sound film comedy. Rounding out the hour is an in-depth interview with Broadway sensation and 2012 Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of legendary silent film star Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin the Musical, Rob McClure.

Silent films were never truly silent: vaudeville acts, narrators, and of course, musical accompanists filled the air with sounds. Ben Model continues that tradition by performing musical accompaniments to both canonical and rare silent films throughout the nation, as well as curating and preserving films himself. Ben takes Peter through his strange path to the unique position, including his "Three Godfathers" who influenced him, and then explains the nuts and bolts of how to actually create music for a film with none at all. They discuss his techniques he learned from improvisation, the task of collecting and searching out rare and missing works, and the pains and pleasures of the analog to digital switch. Finally, Ben explains to Peter some of the hidden secrets behind Charlie Chaplin's masterwork Modern Times, including how under-cranking the film is the trick to star's balletic work. 0:00-1:02 Opening2:07 -6:56 Establishing Shots - Delmer Daves / Trivia Round / Donations7:44-1:08:45 Deep Focus - Ben Model1:09:54-1:30:33 Double Exposure - Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)1:30:35-1:32:34 Close / Outtake