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| Bruce Calvert... |
 Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:38 pm |
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http://www.cinefamily.org/calendar/wednesday.html#silent
5/21 at (no spam) 8pm / SERIES: BOB MITCHELL'S FAVORITE WESTERNS
The Vanishing American
Based on a Zane Grey novel, The Vanishing American concerns a
college-educated Native American protagonist who meets with racism. Bob:
"The interest in Native American culture started around 1914; there was the
belief that the Indians were dying out. This picture was considered
important enough that the producers had a theme song composed by Charles
Wakefield Cadman, a very respected composer. Well, Cadman lived on a
reservation for a while, and later wrote a song called "The Land of the Sky
Blue Water" that became a huge hit. The Vanishing American was particularly
close to me because when I was playing for it, Cadman came down and played a
show - he had a beautiful high tenor voice - and I got to set up the stops
on the organ for him, and he gave me a copy of the music, which I still
remember. I want to play the score he wrote, which I like quite a bit, for
the show."
Dir. George B. Seitz, 1925, 16mm, 110 min.
Tickets - $10
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Bruce Calvert
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