Please Click Here to read more about her. Click Here for more information about this amazing group of woman. Todd is also working on a new play about the nature of creativity. 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.