(Jamie said she would get some Chinese food, which gave me confidence.) I began pinging Jamie Mohr, who runs the Epsilon Spires venue where I would accompany 'The Last Command,' with updates, wondering if I would ever make it out there. Stuck in this situation, with no real alternative routes that would be any better, I kept watching my arrival time slip further into the future. It took a half hour to just go a couple of miles. Seriously! Cars were off the road in both directions, and the rest of us were lined up and moving at a glacial pace, if at all. In a weird meteorological phenomenon, somehow the snow had adhered to the pavement, creating a coating of sheer ice that was impossible to drive on. isn't far from my house, and almost immediately traffic on this busy road came to a complete stop.
The main highway (Route 101) across southern N.H. The snow had cleared out, so I figured that the timing had worked out well. to arrive in time to set up for the screening, which was scheduled to start at 8 p.m. In late afternoon, a wall of heavy squalls moved across northern New England, laying down an unexpected coating of snow across the region.īrattleboro would normally be a 90-minute drive, so I left around 5 p.m. resulted in some unexpected drama before the film could begin. Lots more info in the press release I've pasted in below.įor now, let me report that last night's screening of 'The Last Command' (1928) in Brattleboro, Vt. celebrating the 100th anniversaries of motion pictures that came out that year.
WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER 1922 SERIES
It's part of our ongoing series at the Town Hall Theatre in Wilton, N.H. Released in 1922, it was the year's second-highest grossing film. This afternoon's screening of 'When Knighthood in Flower' is the finale of a five-days-in-a-row series of screenings that saw me doing music for five films in venues across three states.īut what an ending! The Marion Davies costume epic, set during the reign of England's King Henry VIII, was produced on a grand scale. Promotional artwork for 'When Knighthood Was in Flower' (1922).
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