Kansas Silent Film Festival - The Johnstown Flood

Welcome to the Kansas Silent Film Festival! Please note that schedule is approximate times for start and finish as this designed to break down the festival into smaller pieces with the short film(s) followed by the feature. It is recommended to arrive early to park, find your preferred seat, and see the entire film.

Our guest and author, Scott Eyman, will talk about how he chooses subjects for his celebrity biographies and gives examples of the silent film roots of some of them. - 20 minutes

Feature: The Johnstown Flood (1926) starring George O'Brien and directed by Irving Cummings
One of Hollywood’s earliest natural disaster movies, the film uses the Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood of 1889 as the backdrop of this drama starring George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor. The special effects were hailed as groundbreaking. Restoration by Robert A. Harris and James T. Mockoski with the George Eastman Museum. Music by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra — 65 min.

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