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Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival: “The Freshman” (1925), with live organ accompaniment by Eric Cook
September 30 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival presents The Freshman (1925), directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, and screened with live musical accompaniment provided by Eric Cook on theater organ!
The Freshman features the beloved silent film icon Harold Lloyd as a hapless first-year college student whose dream of becoming popular on campus leads him to try out for the football team – but his plans go repeatedly awry. Can our nerdy young hero find success on the gridiron? Lloyd’s most successful film of the 1920s, The Freshman inspired a wave of college films in its wake.
The film will be introduced by film scholar Shane Bliss, whose essays have appeared in the book Thoughts on the Thin Man (2014) and issue #2 of The Pre-Code Companion (2015). Shane is currently writing a book on the careers and filmographies of silent film actors whose films are mostly lost.
Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted! Pre-registration is appreciated, but walk-in attendees are more than welcome. If you wish to register, please click here!