Silent Movie Night
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The Freshman
starring by Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston

Harold Lloyd is Harold ‘Speedy’ Lamb, who is entering college and wants desperately to become a big man on campus. Yet book-smart Harold only knows what he has learned from a handful of self-help booklets and matinee movies, and he has no idea that his earnest efforts at popularity will go hilariously wrong.

Memorabily, Harold encounters problems with his partially-completed tuxedo at the ‘Fall Frolic’ mixer, with emergency help from his dizzy tailor. The film concludes with the big college football game (shot at USC), which has become one of the silent era’s iconic sequences.

The Freshman became one of the biggest hits of 1925 — head-to-head aganist Charles Chaplin’s The Gold Rush — and spawned a parade of more than 50 college-themed dramas and comedies over the next five years, including Buster Keaton’s College (1927).

Gorgeously restored in 1998 by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the film will be presented with an original orchestral music score by Carl Davis. The feature will be preceeded by a presentation of Harold Lloyd’s short comedy High and Dizzy (1920).

Listing for The Freshman (1925) from The Progressive Silent Film List.

Saturday, January 17, 2015  /  7:00 PM
Space is limited. Our friends and family are encouraged to call in or email their RSVPs.