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This program had piano accompaniment from Donald Sosin and some very talented student musicians. Kaufman, showed some of Walt Disney’s earliest animation (1921-1923), long before the famous Mickey Mouse was created. This unique program, hosted by Leonard Maltin and J.B.

Walt Disney’s Laugh-O-Grams – presented by the Walt Disney Family Museum and co-presented by Pixar – was a great way to start off Saturday’s programming. Festivalgoers were also very excited for news of the upcoming screening of Abel Gance’s five-and-a half hour epic Napoleon, restored by film historian Kevin Brownlow and screening at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre this spring. Fix It (1918) a magnificent Marlene Dietrich in The Woman Men Yearn For (1929) and Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped with an introduction by filmmaker Alexander Payne. Murnau’s 1927 masterpiece Sunrise (with a solo electric guitar accompaniment by Giovanni Spinelli), a restored 35mm print of the Douglas Fairbanks film Mr. Opening night saw the premiere of John Ford’s 1927 film Upstream, which had recently been discovered in the New Zealand Film Archive. Pictured: Nancy Nash, Grant Withers, photo courtesy of AMPAS And as usual, this year’s festival offered another stellar lineup. I feel very lucky to live in a city that can support a festival like this one. There is no point in preserving beautiful films if no one can see them. This festival is populated by a real community of people who love these films, fight to preserve and restore them and really push for them to have public screenings.

It is exciting to see these pieces of history projected onto a giant screen, especially one as storied and decadent as the Castro Theatre. My fondness for silent film grows more every year because of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Vladimir Roudenko as the young Napoleon, in Abel Gance’s legendary epic NAPOLEON.

Disney laugh o grams jack the giant killer