Martha’s Vineyard Film Society to Screen Harold Lloyd’s Silent Classic

Safety Last! with Original Score Performed by Berklee Silent Film Orchestra

The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society presents Harold Lloyd’s 1923 silent film gem Safety Last! with an original score performed live by the 11-member Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, and conducted by four student composers. The special event takes place Thursday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $30, $25 for members, and are available at mvfilmsociety.com. The Martha’s Vineyard Film Center is located at 79 Beach Road, Vineyard Haven. Call 508-696-9369 for information.

The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra (BSFO) is dedicated to composing new, original scores for silent feature classics, and performing them live-to-picture. Based at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, in the world’s only undergraduate degree program in film scoring, the student orchestra composes its new works, and performs as an ensemble, under the leadership of film scoring professor Sheldon Mirowitz (Outside Providence, Missing in America). To date, the BSFO has scored seven iconic silent features, all commissioned by the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts, as part of the theater’s Sounds of SilentsTM program, which champions silent film music performance. The recipient of a special commendation from the Boston Society of Film Critics, the BSFO has also performed in Boston’s Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theater and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.