The East Texas Pipe Organ Festival will be playing GIRL SHY tomorrow (Wed 11/11) at 8pm CST. The virtual event is an “encore presentation” featuring organist Clark Wilson on the 1949 Aeolian-Skinner at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas during the 2017 festival. Click here for tickets!
Silent Films Live: Halloween UNcanceled

Check out Silent Films Live: Halloween UNcanceled this weekend!
Silent Films Live is a virtual show featuring new scores by elite Hollywood composers paired with selections from iconic silent films and performed by a chamber orchestra. Featured silent films include: Der Golem, Nosferatu, One Week, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Phantom of the Opera, and A Trip to the Moon.
‘Back to the Future’ Screenwriter Bob Gale Explains Doc’s Denver Broncos Clock

A Safety Last! clock is also featured (an homage to silent film star Harold Lloyd dangling from a huge clock, much the same way Christopher Lloyd’s Doc (no relation to Harold, but still a fun coincidence) does at the end of the film. “We knew we had to feature that,” Gale says.
But what about the Broncos clock? Well, that one has no hidden meaning — unless viewers want it to have one.
Gale explains: “It was just something the set dressers or props people found, it was interesting so we put it in the movie. Is Doc a football fan or a Broncos fan? We know he’s a baseball fan, so he could be a football fan. Or maybe he acquired it on a trip to Denver. We know he’s not from Denver, but maybe his mother was (his father, remember, was German and originally Von Braun). Clearly, we can invent many backstories out of a single prop, so in honor of BTTF day, I encourage readers to submit their own reasons why Doc would have this clock!”
By Ryan Parker / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley
Film Historian John Bengtson has been leading the campaign to recognize “Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley,” located just off of Hollywood Blvd. This alley served as a film location in numerous silent films, including Harold’s SAFETY LAST!
Click to watch a video by John Bengtson to learn more about Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley!
Additional reading:
Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley by John Bengtson
Film Historian Seeks to Make Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley an “International Destination”
by Will McKinley
Charlie Chaplin Filmed Here: Campaign Aims to Make Hollywood Alley a Historic Landmark
by Gary Baum for The Hollywood Reporter
Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley on Google Maps
Graphic credit: John Bengtson
Letter: Actor Harold Lloyd also greatly helped the community’s ailing children
Lloyd was also a Shriner
Re: “History: Harold Lloyd’s Movie Colony estate,” Sept. 13 story by Daniel Simon
In addition to all of his achievements listed is one that ranks close to the top:
While a high school student in the late ’40s, my father served as Illustrious Potentate for the eastern Oklahoma Shrine Temple (chapter). Harold Lloyd was Shrine’s Imperial Potentate (worldwide). That year, my parents attended the Shriners’ Imperial Council Session in Los Angeles led by Harold Lloyd.
A somewhat humorous footnote: In the parade, my dad at one point was mistaken for Lloyd.
He burnished it to the fullest. Yes, he really did look like Lloyd.
Today, there are 400,000 Shrine members in 200 chapters. They support 22 Shrine Hospitals for Children; all services are without costs to the children’s parents or families.
Robert Alexander, Desert Hot Springs
Source: The Desert Sun