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Watch with Spectrum 2025
An Adventure in Silent Film with Live Organ Accompaniment
Sponsored by
Paul and Nancy Dredge Richard Scott Steven Solomon and Kay Dunlap
March 29, 2025 2:30-4:30pm
Cambridge LDS Chapel
65 Binney St., Cambridge, MA
A Saturday afternoon matinee, featuring Buster Keaton’s 1928 silent film “The Cameraman,” accompanied by organist Robert Humphreville, with Q&A and refreshments to follow
Robert Humphreville is a freelance pianist and organist. For the past fifty years, he has accompanied silent movies on piano and organ all over New England, and the Boston Globe has praised him for his inventive improvisations. A composer of independent film scores, he has also been active in the music programs of Brooks School in North Andover; Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge; Bethany Convent in Arlington; the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge; the Apollo Club in Boston; and Temple Isaiah in Lexington. He graduated from Harvard in 1980 and splits his time between Cambridge and New London, Connecticut.
In this silent classic from 1928, photographer Buster (Buster Keaton) meets Sally, who works as a secretary for the newsreel department at MGM, and falls hard. Trying to win her attention, Buster abandons photography in order to become a news cameraman. In spite of his early failures with a motion camera, Sally takes to him as well. However, veteran cameraman Stagg also fancies Sally, meaning Buster will need to learn how to film quickly before he loses his job. Following the film we will have an opportunity to talk with Robert about how he does this wonderful thing, share some refreshments, and socialize.
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