The Waiter’s Ball
(Roscoe Arbuckle, US 1916, 25 min., 16mm)
The Tramp
(Charles Chaplin, US 1915, 26 min., 16mm)
Footprints
(Grover Jones, US 1920, 25 min., 35mm)
One of the things the Dryden does best is silent film screenings. With over twenty-five silent programs each year, the Dryden brings the silent period to life with live accompaniment. In this program appropriate for all ages, we take you more than a hundred years into the past with some of cinema’s most popular comedians. First, “Fatty” Arbuckle and frequent foe Al St. John work in a restaurant together, but pine for the same woman, who they want to invite to “The Waiter’s Ball.” Then, the “little tramp” character Charlie Chaplin had been perfecting comes to realization as an indigent man who comes to the aid of a farmer’s daughter. Finally, Joe Rock is hired as a detective to track down the villain and his gang who have kidnapped a bride during the wedding.
Live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli.
This program is free for all!