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Animated films start Showcase
Sheldon Art Gallery will open its
1974-75 Film-mskers Showcase scries
this week with a series of six animated
films, Tuesday through Thursday at 3
and 7:30 p.m. The free program will
feature the work of internationally
known artist Suzan Pitt Kraning.
Much of Kraning's animated art Is In
the surreal vein of the artist, Margritts.
Her 1971 film, "Crocus," was included
in the "Best of the New York Womens
Film Festival" which was presented at
Sheldon last spring.
Kraning, 31, received the B.F.A.
from the Cranbook Academy of Art in
Michigan. She has done graduate work
at Wayne State in Detroit and Drake
University in Des Moines and has
taught at a number of Northwestern and
Film-makers Showcase Is a program
designed to bring well known artists and
their films to Lincoln. Sheldon film
theater director Dan Ladely said he
plans to feature mostly women film
makers this year, "so people would
know that there are women, film
makers." In addition to the films, Kraning will
host a workshop featuring some of her
students' animated work. The workshop
will be held at Sheldon Wednesday
morning from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Kraning will also be available after
the evening showing to talk with the
audience.
Keaton first in 'silent' series
Btf Grea Lukow
For film fans looking for something
different than the current commercial
movie scene, there are only two choices
in Lincoln that offer an alternate
cinema. One is Sheldon Art Gallery with
its various series, and the other is the
Lincoln Silent Film Society (LSCS).
The LSFS begins Its second semester
of operation on Tuesday with the
showing of one of Buster Keaton's finest
comedies, College, filmed in 1927.
Other films to be shown aro largely
made up of popular American classics,
of the silent years but they avoid the old
standards seen on TV many times
during the past couple of years.
Short subjects will also precede most
of the showings, which include: Street of
Forgotten Women (1925), a cheap,
obscure. and hilarious release (the title
tells all) filmed under the auspices of
being "morally uplifting" but is about
as close as they came to prono in the
'20s; Douglas Fairbanks Sr., swinging
and smiling his way through his 1926
adventure in The Black Pirate; William
S. Hart in one of his earlier Westerns,
The2iscfplo-(lT5); and two-fnomJhe
Man of a Thousand Faces", Lon
Chaney, with Shadows (1922) and the
original American Horror Classic, The
Phantom of the Opera.
Two of tha showinas wifl be short
subjects of top commcdians of the era
including Chaplin, Keaton, Laure! and
Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon
and the Keystone Kops.
The LSFS is a labor of love of its
director, Howard Prouty, a junior at
UNL. "My ideal," says Prouty, "is to
cultivate a real appreciation of the silent
film, which is certainly my candidate for
the most misunderstood art-entertainment
form of our time."
It is difficult to form a proper
perspective of the American silent film
today largely because it is almost
impossible to see them as they should
be, and originally were, shown. As
Prouty put it, "I'm trying to approxi
mate the films' originals presenta
tionsthe resources to duplicate them
are beyond my means."
The society has an added feature this
year, as musical accompaniments as
sembled by Prouty for each film will be
used. They should add greatly to the
presentations.
Film organizations of this type are
i difficult to establish in this area, and
nearly impossible to sustain. The
Lincoln Silent Film Society deserves
feedback proportionate to the effort that
has been put into it.
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