San Francisco Silent Film Festival Board President and noted preservationist Rob Byrne will lead a talk at the gorgeously restored Presidio Officers' Club in San Francisco on Thursday, May 4, at 6:00 pm. In his presentation, "Restoring Treasures of the Silent Screen," Byrne will give a sneak peek into the three SFSFF restoration projects that will have their world premieres at the festival in June. More information about the talk can be found HERE.
"Only ten to fifteen
percent of the motion pictures created during the silent film era still
survive in complete form today. The other 85-90% of all motion pictures
created prior to 1930 are considered “lost” – titles for which not a
single surviving print is known to exist in any form. Fortunately,
remnants of these long-lost treasures occasionally come to light,
providing the opportunity to restore and enjoy films that have not been
seen for generations.
Just as diverse as the
films themselves are the various techniques employed to recover,
reconstruct, and restore them, a process that unites scholarship,
technical skill, luck, and fascinating detective work. Join film
restorer Robert Byrne as he presents a sneak peek into three recent
restoration efforts, all of which will have their world premieres at the
2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, June 1 to 4 at the Castro
Theatre:
The Three Musketeers (1921): Douglas Fairbanks original
swashbuckling saga, restored from a copy of Fairbanks’s own 35mm
negative that had been donated to the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Silence (1926): Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, this classic
melodrama had been considered lost for generations until a complete
tinted nitrate copy of the film surfaced in Paris at the Cinémathèque
Française.
Plus a special surprise – fragments
of a previously lost feature, Now We're in the Air (1927), provide a tantalizing glimpse of one of the
silent screen’s greatest icons (Louise Brooks).
Robert Byrne
specializes in the restoration of early and silent era motion pictures,
and also serves as President of the Board of Directors for the San
Francisco Silent Film Festival. This special event is presented in association with the
San Francisco Silent Film Festival."
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