From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 9/7/25 8:41 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >> In the distant past, Boskone had live organ accompaniment to   
   >> silent films, and the organist was John Kiley, the same person who   
   >> played the organ at Fenway Park. My Boskone XXI con report   
   >> indicates that that year (1984) it was THE MARK OF ZORRO, and my   
   >> comments indicate that this had been done with other films for   
   >> several years.   
   >   
   > Boskone still does this.  This year Boskone ran only a short NACA film   
   > and the 16mm film from Worldcon with our own Gary McGath accompanying   
   > on synthesizer, though, and not a full silent feature.  We hope to have a   
   > feature in February.   
      
   I'm glad to talk about this whenever you're ready. The only reason I   
   stopped accompanying silent films at Boskone was that a lot of silents   
   were still under copyright then, and Kino in particular charged   
   expensive licensing fees.>   
   > For years, John Kiley joked with us that when he died we would have   
   > to start running transitional films (films that were still acted and   
   > composed like silent films, but with some dialogue added).  When he   
   > did die in the early 2000s we ran White Zombie with Bela Lugosi.   
      
   Some early sound films didn't have musical scores, and adding live   
   accompaniment is a possibility. I've heard of the 1931 Frankenstein   
   being done this way. However, it's still in copyright.   
      
      
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