This four-day film festival showcases classic slapstick comedy.

9:00 am – Doors Open
10:00 am – MORE TALKIE COMEDIES:
IDLE ROOMERS (1931) – Cameo comedy Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
THANKS AGAIN (1931) – Edgar Kennedy
BLONDE BOMBER (1936) – Harry Gribbon, Shemp Howard
FREE RENT (1936) – Monty Collins, Tom Kennedy
12:00 pm- 1:30 pm – Lunch Break
1:30 pm – THE BATTLING ORIOLES (1924) – Glenn Tryon
QUEEN OF ACES (1925) – Wanda Riley
MISFIT SAILOR (1926) – Billy Dooley
SWISS MOVEMENTS (1926)- Jimmie Adams
3:30 pm – ONES FOR THE ROAD:
WHO’S AFRAID? (1927) – Lupino Lane
SHORT KILTS (1924) – Stan Laurel
HIGH SOCIETY (1924) – Our Gang

Accompanying the silent comedies shown at SLAPSTICON are two of the finest silent film pianists working in the field today: Dr. Philip Carli, house accompanist of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and Dr. Andrew Simpson of Catholic University, Washington DC, who performs regularly at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper, Virginia and the National Gallery of Art. Apart from both being SLAPSTICON regulars, Drs. Carli and Simpson are both Alumni of Indiana University.

Cost: $30 - $99 - purchase tickets at website

For more information contact:

(812)855-7632
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