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GOLDEN SILENTS THE HOODLUM screening with They Would Elope and The Trick That Failed Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets On Sale Now! Ben Model live on the mighty Miditzer virtual theatre organ! Join us in celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Pickford’s film debut with two of her earliest shorts directed by her UA-cohort D.W. Griffith and the New York premiere of a beautifully restored print of The Hoodlum. With a new score he has composed, Ben Model will accompany the films on the mighty Miditzer virtual theatre organ. Spoiled society gal Amy Burke (Pickford), bored with the privileged lifestyle provided by her well-to-do grandfather, goes off to live with her artsy father (Dwight Crittenden) in an East Side tenement. Though she learns to shoot craps and dance the shimmy, her transition from rapscallion to ragamuffin is hardly complete. She falls for the mysterious John Graham (Kenneth Harlan) and, learning that her grandfather once falsely sent Graham to prison, quickly plots a revenge. Pickford produced The Hoodlum, an entertaining class fable, under her own shingle, the Mary Pickford Company, on behalf of the still-developing United Artists. The Hoodlum Sidney Franklin, USA, 1919; 78m They Would Elope D.W. Griffith, USA, 1909; 6m The Trick That Failed D.W. Griffith, USA, 1909; 7m This is the New York premiere of a restored print of The Hoodlum by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The shorts are courtesy of the Library of Congress, and will be introduced by the LOC’s Christel Schmidt.The year-round Golden Silents program is made possible through the generosity of the Ira M. Resnick Foundation.

Info & Tickets Fri Nov 20: 7 Admission: $15 public $13 senior (62+) $12 member/student $10 child [ages 6-12, accompanied by an adult] Online service charge: $1.25 per ticket ordered. No passes accepted to this event.