Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gary McGath Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom,alt.movies.silent Subject: Silent movie on Twitch: The Lost World Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:33:37 -0400 Organization: Mad Scientists' Union Lines: 20 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:33:37 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6ad564f66f30127cd86868eaf54cf862"; logging-data="3766568"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+mkmTc0YnXY6v/YbLeg1545LVOCAjvyFk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:AKf6BQ2wHwaXydCqZatiC5UNpiQ= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1757 On Wednesday, March 13, at 8 PM EDT, I'll provide live, improvised keyboard accompaniment to the 1925 silent film, _The Lost World_. This movie, based on Conan Doyle's novel of the same title (and including a brief appearance by him to introduce the film), was a breakthrough in special effects, using Willis O'Brien's stop-motion animation techniques to put dinosaurs on the screen. In the tradition of old movies, there will be a cartoon short before the main feature. The short is _Gertie the Dinosaur_, one of the first animated films to hit the theaters. It's presented in a live-action frame that purports to explain how Winsor McCay made the cartoon on a bet. This is my third movie in a monthly series on Twitch. The link is: https://www.twitch.tv/madfilkentist -- Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com