SILVER

Decades before Mary Martin became synonymous with the role of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie's play was the subject of a lavish Paramount production, a major hit in 1924. Long thought lost, the film was recently rediscovered and fully restored from original nitrate materials, with authentic color tints. Teenager Betty Bronson stars as Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up, and charms Wendy Darling and her brothers to fly with him to Neverland. There, they struggle to rescue the Lost Boys from Captain Hook (Ernest Torrence, who played Buster Keaton's father in STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.) and his pirates, encountering the fairy Tinker Bell (Virginia Brown Faire), a man-eating crocodile and a group of valiant Native Americans (led by Anna May Wong as Tiger Lily). With inventive special effects by Roy Pomeroy and fine photography by James Wong Howe. DIR/PROD Herbert Brenon; SCR Willis Goldbeck, from the play by J. M. Barrie. US, 1924, b&w/color tinting, 105 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED

About Donald Sosin & Joanna Seaton
Joanna Seaton and Donald Sosin bring their unique blend of keyboards, vocals and percussion to major film festivals and venues around the world. They perform often at Italy’s annual silent film retrospectives in Bologna and Pordenone. They have appeared numerous times at Yale, Harvard, Brown, Cornell and Emory Universities and have created scores for over 65 silent film DVDs on the Criterion, Kino, Milestone and Flicker Alley labels, among others. Their workshops in silent film music and songwriting are popular with students of all ages.

Called a “silvery soprano” by the New York Times, Joanna, a native of Manhattan, has a Theatre Arts degree from Cornell University. She has appeared in over 80 Off-Broadway, regional and stock theatre productions and has sung with jazz great Dick Hyman at the 92nd St. Y. Donald grew up in Rye, NY and Munich and played on Broadway for many years, after composition studies at Michigan and Columbia. His music has been heard on PBS, TCM, as background for network soaps and in many contemporary films. The couple lives in northwest Connecticut with their children.