100th Anniversary Screening: The Big Parade (1925) w/ live music by Jeff Rapsis

Name: 100th Anniversary Screening: The Big Parade (1925) w/ live music by Jeff Rapsis
Start: 2025-10-03T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Row House Cinemas

Schedule

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Row House Cinemas | Pittsburgh, PA

Sponsored by the Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club!
Celebrate the 2025 Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival and Silent Movie Day with us with one of the first war films ever made — complete with a live piano accompaniment and intros from the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society and the Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club!
Chad Hunter from the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society and Wendy Whittick from the Pittsburgh Classic Movie club will both give short talks to add context to the film, and pianist Jeff Rapsis, a Boston based pianist with a specialty in silent film scores, will perform live with the film.
The film: The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army’s Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Director: King Vidor Run Time: 151 min. Format: Audio. Release Year: 1925. Starring: Claire Adams, Claire McDowell, Hobart Bosworth, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée