From PEMBERVILLE OPERA HOUSE
Live In The House Concert Series will present its annual Silent Movie Night featuring Buster Keaton in “The Cameraman” with music provided by Lynne Long on keyboard Saturday, Jan. 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $12 and available at Beeker’s General Store, at the door or by contacting Carol at 419-287-4848
Hopelessly in love with a woman that works at MGM studios, a clumsy
man attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to
the object of his desire.
What a delightfully wacky world Buster Keaton inhabited. This one, his first MGM feature, the beginning of the end one might safely say, is about a hapless would-be newsreel photographer trying to get a foothold within MGM, mostly in order to win the sweet girl in the front office.
This is Keaton, the great stoneface. A Deity. Because other footage is simply brilliant. The pathetic pictures of Buster sitting in his little room from the crack of dawn in all his Sunday best, waiting for the girl to maybe ring. When it does ring he has to rush four stories down to get it! Or the scene where he has to share his dressing room with another gent and their clothes and limbs get tangled up with each other. Or, most spectacularly, the scenes from the gang war in Chinatown, dynamic, violent, imaginative. See it, love it!
The Opera House is supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council. The Live in the House Concert Series is presented by the Pemberville Freedom Area Historical Society.
Lynne Long, our pianist extraordinaire once again graces the opera house with dynamic,
interpretation of this silent movie. Her musical selections and sense of humor combined with Keaton’s will make this a night and movie to remember.
Lynne Long, a cum laude graduate of BGSU in piano performance, has maintained a private piano studio in her home for over 40 years. She has been a member of OMTA for many years and holds a Permanent Professional Certificate. Long performs and accompanies on a regular basis at a variety of functions in the Northwest Ohio area and accompanies silent movies in four different venues.
She has recorded two CD’s of sacred music. She serves as president of the Grand Rapids Arts Council and coordinates the “Rhythm on the River” music series for the Historical Society of Grand Rapids.
