Vintage Film Night: Charlie Chaplin and Flash Gordon
Description
Come join the fun with three Charlie Chaplin shorts with live piano accompaniment composed and performed by Shauna Pickett Gordon. Plus, another installment of crowd favorite – FLASH GORDON.
MAKING A LIVING (1914) is a one-reel short and Chaplin’s first starring role. He portrays a charming swindler who runs afoul of a news reporter and a Keystone Cop.
In EASY STREET (1917), the Tramp’s visit to the local Mission on Easy Street leads him to join the police and tackle the local bully to restore order.
THE IMMIGRANT (1917) was written and directed by Chaplin. The Tramp is an immigrant coming to the US. He is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and falls in love with a beautiful young woman along the way.
Flash Gordon Episode 7: "Shattering Doom" 1936
Flash Gordon is a superhero movie serial that holds up as a campy blast from the past. Presented in 13 chapters, it is the first screen adventure for Flash Gordon, the comic-strip character created by Alex Raymond in 1934. It presents the story of Gordon's visit to the planet Mongo and his encounters with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless. Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson and Frank Shannon portray the film's central characters.
In Shattering Doom, Flash, Barin, and Thun have no hope of escaping the atom furnaces of the Hawkmen's floating city unaided, but the ever-resourceful Dr. Zarkov has a plan to save them!
Shauna Pickett-Gordon
Shauna Pickett-Gordon will accompany the silent films performing her original scores on piano!
From the age of five, Shauna Pickett-Gordon has played, studied, and experimented with piano music. Her main path is the classical repertoire – both solo and collaborative – but side trips include playing keyboards and directing choirs in churches; directing and playing for two Scottish fiddle orchestras; playing the piano parts in orchestras, and occasionally performing a concerto; singing; teaching piano and voice; and creating and performing original scores for silent films. She composes and arranges music for the groups with which she performs. Music conservatory training somehow led to a career in technical writing, but retirement in turn has led to re-immersion in all things piano, especially chamber music.
