SPEEDY
3:00 ♪
Sunday, November 3
♪ Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner
Introduced by Stephen M. Silverman
(1928, Ted Wilde) Jazz Age Idols meet, as baseball-crazed soda jerk/cabbie Harold Lloyd and passenger Babe Ruth hurtle to old Yankee Stadium. Extensive NYC location work is highlighted during a frenzied finale through Lower Manhattan, what’s now DUMBO, and right through Washington Square Arch! 35mm. Approx. 85 min. Plus an excerpt from In the Footsteps of Speedy (2016, Bruce Goldstein).
Introduced by Stephen M. Silverman, author of The Amusement Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dreamers and Schemers Who Built Them (available at our concession). Book signing in the lobby following the event.
Reviews
“No filmmaker had ever made such flamboyant use of New York.”
– Kevin Brownlow