Buster Keaton The General at Long Center, Friday, August 31

FYI, from Professor Felluga

BL

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Hello all,

I write to let you know of a Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement event at the Long Center on Friday, August 31st, 2007. At 8pm on that night, Lance Duerfahrd and I will be screening Buster Keaton's _The General_. Ken Double will be accompanying the film on the Long Center's Mighty Wurlitzer organ--the same format in which the 1927 film was originally presented. As Lance states in a recent news release about the film, "_The General_ is considered the greatest silent film of all time. Most of it is filmed aboard moving trains and Keaton's humor comes from the incredible physical eloquence with which he negotiates gravity, momentum and velocity. He's a clown, stuntman, missile, engineer and tragic hero all at once. Keaton's face and its many deadpan expressions on the big screen at the Long Center will be monumental." This Civil War film is about a rejected Confederate solider who is kept from the fighting to serve as a train engineer. He plays the hero when his train and the girl of his dreams are stolen by Union spies.

Advance tickets for "The General" are $12 for the general public and $7 for students with a Purdue ID. Tickets are available from 12-5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Long Center box office, 111 N. Sixth St., or by calling (765) 742-5664 during those hours. Tickets purchased at the event are $15 for the general public and $8.50 for students with a Purdue ID.

It's also possible to bring an entire class to the film for a reduced price.
One must purchase a block of tickets (more than 10) and identify the group as part of a class. One can then purchase that block at $5/ticket.

The event is presented by the Long Center Theatre Organ Society and the Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement Program.

Note that, when Lance and I screened _Nosferatu_ and _Frankenstein_ last Labor Day weekend, we came very close to selling out the Long Center, so I encourage you to purchase your tickets early.

Enjoy!
Dino

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Dino Franco Felluga
Director of Literature
Department of English