Iola, KS: Buster Keaton celebration

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Buster Keaton Celebration

It’s the 19th annual commemoration of the movies and life of the Piqua, Kan.,-born silent comic. This year’s fest also includes discussion of other Kansas-born filmmakers including Gordon Parks (“Shaft,” “The Learning Tree”), Delbert Mann (“Marty”), adventure filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson, Louise Brooks and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and current filmmaker Kevin Willmott (“C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America”).

Organist Marvin Faulwell and percussionist Bob Keckeisen, silent film scholars Hooman Mehran and Frank Scheide and Bill Shaffer of Topeka’s KTWU all will be in attendance.

Among the screenings: Keaton’s “The Balloonatic” and “The Navigator,” the Johnsons’ “Simba” and the Oscar-winning “Marty.”

Details: Sept. 23-24 at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, Iola, Kan. (100 miles southwest of Kansas City). Free. (http://www.iolakeatoncelebration.org" target="_blank or 620-365-4765)

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Buster Keaton
and
The Kansas Filmmakers
The 19th Annual Buster Keaton Celebration
Sept 23-24, 2011, Iola, KS

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Program for 2011 ---- Last Updated 08/26/2011

All activities are held at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center in Iola, Kansas,. Free.
(donations are very much appreciated-- this year more than ever)

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Program subject to change.
Friday, Sept 23, 2011, main auditorium, Bowlus Fine Arts Center
8:30 Registration opens at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Auditorium Lobby (There are no fees)

9:15 Welcome and Remarks / Master of Ceremonies Frank Scheide, Keaton Co-Chair


9:20 REMEMBERING BUSTER: An Interview with James Karen
Frank Scheide, Ph.D., University of Arkansas Abstract/Bio
10:00 Q & A

10:10 STARS OF KANSAS
Eric Monder, Documentary Filmmaker & Lecturer at Bethany College Abstract/Bio
Kansas Humanities Speakers Bureau
10:50 Q & A

11:00 Break

11:10 Screening of THE E-FLAT MAN (1935) Educational Pictures with Buster Keaton

11:30 Lunch Break

1:00 Welcome and Introduction / Master of Ceremonies Lisa Stein Haven

1:10 21st CENTURY KANSAS FILMMAKER
Kevin Willmott, Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Playwright, Actor Activist Abstract/Bio
Associate Professor - University of Kansas

1:50 Q & A

2:00 GORDON PARKS
Jill Warford , Executive Director, Gordon Parks Museum, Fort Scott Community College

Abstract/Bio
2:40 Q & A

2:50 Break (10 min.)

3:00 DELBERT MANN: From Lawrence, Kansas to Hollywood's Oscar
Jonathan Cavallero, Ph.D. Unversity of Arkansas Abstract/Bio
3:40 Q & A (10 min.)

3:50 Screening of MARTY directed by Delbert Mann

5:00 Dinner Break

7:30 FRIDAY EVENING SCREENINGS:

THE BALLOONATIC (1923) Buster Keaton short with Phyllis Haver
With live music by Marvin Faulwell.

CHICAGO (1927) starring Phyllis Haver
With live music by Marvin Faulwell, organ, and Bob Keckeisen, percussion.

(There will be a short intermission during the screening of CHICAGO)

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Saturday, Sept 24, 2011, main auditorium, Bowlus Fine Arts Center
8:30 Registration opens at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Auditorium Lobby (There are no fees)

9:00 Welcome and Introductions by Bill Shaffer

9:20 BUSTER KEATON, the Accidental Kansas
David Macleod, Keaton historian & founder of the Blinking Buzzards Society (UK) Bio
10:00 Q & A with Speaker (10 minutes)

10:10 EUGENE PALLETTE: Thin Man in a Large Body
Martha Jett, Documentary Filmmaker and Keaton Biographer Bio
10:50 Q & A with Speaker (10 minutes)

11:00 Screening of SHOULD MEN WALK HOME? (1927) with Mabel Normand & Eugene Pallette.(Oliver Hardy does a cameo.)

11:30 Lunch Break

1:00 Welcome and Introductions / Master of Ceremonies Lisa Stein Haven

1:10 KANSAS FILM COMICS: Arbuckle & Keaton
Robert Arkus, Film Historian & Archivist Abstract/Bio
Featuring the premiere screening of a new video restoration of
His Wife's Mistake ( 1916) with Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and musical score by Ben Model

1:50 Q & A with Speaker

2:00 KANSAS FILM FLAPPERS: Phyllis Haver, Louise Brooks, Thelma Hill,
and the Portrayal of Postwar Feminine Experience
Lisa Stein Haven, Ph.D., Ohio University Zanesville Abstract/Bio

2:40 Q & A with Speaker (10 minutes)

2:50 Break

3:00 FAMOUS TRAVELS OF MARTIN & OSA JOHNSON, Kansas Filmmakers
Jacquelyn Borgeson, Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum, Chanute, Kansas Abstract/Bio

Featuring a rare film clip of the New York City premiere of CONGORILLA

3:40 Q & A

3:50 Screening of SIMBA (1928) with Osa & Martin Johnson
With live music by Marvin Faulwell, organ, and Bob Keckeisen, percussion.

5:00 Dinner Break

7:30 SATURDAY EVENING SCREENINGS

ROWDY ANN (1919) short film starring Fay Tincher

TWO TARS (1928) short film starring Laurel and Hardy with Thelma Hill. Directed by James Parrot, brother of Charley Chase

THE NAVIGATOR (1924) feature film starring Buster Keaton
With live music by Marvin Faulwell, organ, and Bob Keckeisen, percussion.

[Gary]

I'm looking forward it. But I don't think this is the Oscar-winning "Marty" -- it's the original TV version, also directed by Delbert Mann.