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Silent Film in Arlington, Virginia

Slapsticon 2008 is a four-day, international film festival dedicated to classic motion picture comedy! From Thursday, 17 July 2008, through Sunday, 20 July 2008, film lovers from around the world are invited to converge on Arlington, Virginia, to attend screenings of rare shorts and selected feature-length comedies.

Sponsored by the Arlington County Department of Cultural Affairs, Slapsticon 2008 will take place at the county’s spacious Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre in Arlington, Virginia.

So if you enjoy silent and early sound era film comedy — or you just like a good laugh — please make plans to join us at this year’s event.

All silent films shown at Slapsticon 2008 feature live musical accompaniment by accomplished musicians, Dr. Philip Carli, Ben Model and Andrew Simpson. Each utilize different styles and both have many years of experience in the art of silent film accompaniment.

The festival program will include (program subject to change without notice) . . .

Thursday, 17 July 2008
1:00 PM
Paul Killiam Comedy Compilations
Clown Princes of Hollywood, Slapstick and The Fun Factory.

Thursday, 17 July 2008
3:00 PM
Weiss-o-Roni, including
Why Detectives Go Wrong (1928)
starring Poodles Hanneford
with
Springtime Saps (1929)
starring Snub Pollard and Marvin Loback
and
Winning Winnie (1927)
starring Ethelyn Gibson

Thursday, 17 July 2008
7:00 PM
Three Stooges Rarities Show
Hosted by Paul Gierucki

Thursday, 17 July 2008
9:00 PM
Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
starring W.C. Fields and
with
Vs. Sledgehammers (1915)
starring Ben Turpin

Friday, 18 July 2008
9:00 AM
Early Comedies
Number One (1915)
starring Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew
with
Pretzel and Flanagan (1914)
starring Lloyd Hamilton
Taking Things Easy (1919)
featuring Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran
Nearly Spliced (1916)
starring Leon Errol
Mishaps of Musty Suffer: Going Up (1916)
featuring Harry Watson Jr.
All Jazzed Up (1919)
starring Dan Russell and Hughey Mack
It’s a Hard Life (1915)
with Heinie and Louie (Jimmy Aubrey and Walter Kendig)
The Bogus Booking Agents (1916)
featuring Ham and Bud
Sweeney’s Christmas Bird (1913)
with Hughey Mack
and
Billy McGrath on Broadway (1913)
starring Augustus Carney

Friday, 18 July 2008
10:30 AM
Kids ’n’ Animals
Monkey Shines (1922)
A Campbell Comedy
with
The Tin Hoss (1925)
featuring Hey Fellas
Open Spaces (1926)
starring Malcolm ‘Big Boy’ Sebastian
and
A Pleasant Journey (1923)
featuring Our Gang

Friday, 18 July 2008
2:00 PM
The Sennett Spot
Among the Mourners (1914)
featuring Chester Conklin and Syd Chaplin
with
Are Waitresses Safe? (1917)
starring Ben Turpin and Charlie Murray
Trimmed in Gold (1925)
starring Billy Bevan
A Rainy Knight (1925)
featuring Raymond McKee and Eugenia Gilbert
Taxi Dolls (1929)
with Jack Cooper
and
Doubling in the Quickies (1932)
starring Lloyd Hamilton and Marjorie Beebe

Friday, 18 July 2008
4:00 PM
Rob Stone Rarities

Friday, 18 July 2008
8:00 PM
Vacation Waves (1928)
starring Edward Everett Horton
with
The Golf Bug (1924)
featuring Monty Banks
and
Golf Widows (1928)
with Harrison Ford, Vernon Dent and Will Stanton

Friday, 18 July 2008
10:00 PM
Late Night Langdon
Councel on De Fence (1934)
with
See America Thirst (1930)

Saturday, 19 July 2008
10:30 AM
Hal Roach Rarities
Rush Orders (1921)
starring Snub Pollard
with
Rough on Romeo (1921)
starring Paul Parrott
Too Many Mamas (1924)
starring Charley Chase
Sherlock Sleuth (1925)
featuring Arthur Stone
In the Grease (1925)
with James Finlayson
Love Pains (1931)
featuring Boy Friends
and
The Rummy (1933)
featuring Taxi Boys

Saturday, 19 July 2008
2:00 PM
Harry Langdon Documentary
(Paul Killiam)
A never-released Paul Killiam documentary from the late 1950s featuring rare clips and an interview with Vernon Dent.
with
The Silent Partner (1955)
starring Buster Keaton and Joe E. Brown
and
The Scribe (1966)
Buster Keaton’s last film

Saturday, 19 July 2008
4:00 PM
Raymond Griffith
Changing Husbands (1924)
starring Raymond Griffith and Leatrice Joy
with
An Aerial Joyride (1916)
and
His Foot-Hill Folly (1917)

Saturday, 19 July 2008
8:00 PM
The Barnyard (1923)
starring Larry Semon
with
Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)
starring Dorothy Mackaill and Jimmy Finlayson

Saturday, 19 July 2008
10:00 PM
Talkie Shorts
Grass Skirts (1930)
starring Lloyd Hamilton
with
The Real McCoy (1930)
starring Charley Chase
Share the Wealth (1936)
starring Andy Clyde
and
Dumb’s the Word (1937)
with Edgar Kennedy and Billy Franey

Sunday, 20 July 2008
10:00 AM
More Talkie Shorts
Dangerous Females (1929)
starring Marie Dressler and Polly Moran
with
Fiddlin’ Around (1938)
starring Monty Collins and Tom Kennedy
Pistol Packin’ Nitwits (1945)
starring Harry Langdon and El Brendel
Alibi Bye Bye (1935)
with Clark and McCullough
and
Tomalio (1933)
starring Roscoe Arbuckle

Sunday, 20 July 2008
1:30 PM
Manhattan Madness (1916)
starring Douglas Fairbanks
with
The Brown Derby (1926)
featuring Johnny Hines

Sunday, 20 July 2008
3:30 PM
Ones for the Road
His Private Life (1926)
directed by Roscoe Arbuckle and starring Lupino Lane
with
No Father to Guide Him (1925)
featuring Charley Chase
and
The Shrimp (1930)
with Harry Langdon

Perhaps a surprise or two, then it’s off to our Slapsticon farewell meal at the Holiday Inn (and a toast or two to the late Tom Sarris’s Steak House).

Tickets: $99.00 for the full four-day festival; $30.00 per day; $16.00 half-day. More information about the Slapsticon (including a registration form) can be found at www.slapsticon.org.

The Rosslyn Spectrum was originally built as a movie house in the early 1960s. The newly-renovated theater now has 387 cushioned theater seats — each with folding tables for note-taking critics, or for refreshments (which are allowed inside the theatre)!

Slapsticon is sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Division of the Arlington County Department of Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources and the Arlington County Friends of the Library. The Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge is the official hotel of Slapsticon.

The Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre
1611 North Kent Street
Arlington, Virginia

 
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