Friday, September 28, 2007

Bowlus Auditorium

9:30 Registration opens at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Auditorium Lobby ( There are no fees)

9:50 Welcome by Master of Ceremonies, FRANK SCHEIDE, Ph.D. University of Arkansas

10:00 “MEN IN THE ARENA: BUSTER KEATON AND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS” FRED KREBS, Professor of History, Johnson County Community College

10:40 THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH (1916 Fairbanks silent short)

11:10 “WHY DOUGLAS SMILED AND BUSTER DID NOT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE BUSINESS MODELS ADOPTED BY EACH, AND A PARALLEL ANALYSIS OF THEIR SCREEN PERSONAE”

TRACEY DOYLE, M.D., Adjunct Faculty in the Media Department at Towson University

11:50 Panel Discussion and Q&A Chaired by Frank Scheide

12:15 Lunch Break

1:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS by MC, Martha Jett, Keaton Historian, Documentary Filmmaker and Author

1:40 “AMERICAN ICONS OF ENERGY AND OPTIMISM: FAIRBANKS AND KEATON IN THE SHADOW OF T.R.” JAMES WELSH, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Salisbury University

2:20 “PHYSICALLY UNFIT: ‘SNITZ’ EDWARDS AS COUNTERPOINT IN THE FILMS OF KEATON AND FAIRBANKS” HOOMAN MEHRAN, Film Historian & Co-Editor of The Chaplin Review

3:00 Break (15 minutes)

3:15 Panel Discussion and Q&A Chaired by JOHN TIBBETTS, Ph.D. University of Kansas

3:40 THE AWAKENING (1954) (Douglas Fairbanks Jr. TV show with Keaton) Plus rare Teddy Roosevelt footage courtesy of Robert Arkus)

5:00 Dinner

7:30 FRIDAY EVENING SCREENINGS:

Welcome and Introduction by MC, BILL SHAFFER, KTWU

CHARACTER STUDIES: (1927 Carter DeHaven silent short)

THE LOVE NEST: (1923 Keaton silent short)

THE BLACK PIRATE: (1926 Fairbanks silent short)

With live musical accompaniment by the

MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA

Saturday, September 29, 2007 Itinerary

Bowlus Auditorium

8:30 Registration opens at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Auditorium Lobby ( There are no fees)

9:00 Welcome by Master of Ceremonies FRANK SCHEIDE, Ph.D. University of Arkansas

9:20 “BUSTER AND DOUG” DAVID MACLEOD, Co-Founder of the Blinking Buzzards Society (UK)

10:00 “THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF HOPE: THE CONTEMPORARY SATIRES OF DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.”
JOHN TIBBETTS, Ph.D., University of Kansas

10:40 Break (15 minutes)

10:55 Panel Discussion and Q & A Chaired by FRED KREBS

11:20 MOOCHING THROUGH GEORGIA (1939 Keaton sound short)

12:00 Lunch Break

1:00 Welcome by Master of Ceremonies HOOMAN MEHRAN, Co-Editor, The Chaplin Review

1:10 RESCUED FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: RARE OUTTAKES FROM THE FILMS OF DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, SR.”
ROBERT ARKUS, Film Historian and Archivist, Getty Images Film Archive

1:50 Q & A with ROBERT ARKUS, Chaired by HOOMAN MEHRAN

2:10 Break (10 minutes)

2:20 TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S PHILOSOPHY OF THE DESIRABILITY OF THE PHYSICALLY STRENUOUS LIFE”
THOMAS PRASCH, Ph.D., Washburn University

3:00 Humanist Panel
Chaired by FRANK SCHEIDE

3:30 DOWN TO EARTH (1917 Fairbanks feature)

5:00 Dinner

7:30 SATURDAY EVENING SCREENINGS

Welcome and Introduction by MC, BILL SHAFFER, KTWU

World Premiere of a Restored Douglas Fairbanks Silent Feature!
A MODERN MUSKETEER (1917)

Our grateful thanks to David Shepard, Thomas Christiensen and the Danish Film Archive, Serge Bromberg and Lobster Films, Peter Williamson and the Museum of Modern Art, Jeffrey Vance, Bill Shaffer and John Tibbetts for making this premiere screening possible.

THE SAPHEAD (1920 Keaton feature) With live musical accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra