The play for adults becomes Mrs. Harper's spiritual journey from her childhood to her death and has been described as a spiritual journey which many African American women have travelled. For young people, Ms. Eliot has developed a social studies assembly which contains the kernel of the play accompanied by historical and factual commentary by Ms. Eliot. Please Click Here to read more about her. That is why Bruce and Ben want to bring the history and magic of silent film to schools, libraries, camps and colleges. Silent movies, from the first fade-in, activate the imagination to supply colors, sounds, dialog and emotions.
Silent comedy is even more fun forkids than any other genre of silent film.
Bruce Lawton and Ben Model come with 16mm projectors and movies, and, if you have no movie screen or piano, they can provide one or the other. They bring everything to school, set it up, perform, pack everything up and take it with them. Ben Model has been playing for films, mainly at the Museum of Modern Art in New York city for the last eighteen years. Bruce Lawton has helped to restore films like Chaplin's The Gold Rush and Keaton's The Cameraman and was hired by Paramount Pictures to evaluate their preservation facilities.