Ben Model

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Ben Model is a talented pianist who travels the world accompanying silent movies…but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. He’s a good guy who wears many hats: historian, proselytizer, promoter, preservationist, teacher, and distributor, to name just a few. He blew Leonard and Jessie’s minds when he unveiled his research about variable running times for silent films and proved how Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others used the hand-cranking of the camera to their benefit. See for yourself at https://www.silentfilmmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Undercranking-lecture1.jpg You can learn more about Ben and his activities at www.silentfilmmusic.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. We want to thank our sponsor, Legion M. They are a wonderful company. We love working with them. You can go to their website, Legion M. They're also on all the various socials. They do really fun meetups. You can talk to directors. You can become a part of the projects they choose. They even have a program right now where you can help them find
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1:01.7	Hi, everybody.
1:02.7	I'm Leonard Malton.
1:03.6	And I'm Jesse Malton.
1:04.6	You're listening to Malton on movies.
1:06.2	And today we're going to talk about movies from a unique perspective, which is to say, we're talking about just silent movies.
1:16.3	And the man I'm going to introduce as an old friend, one time I would have called a silent film accompanist.
1:22.3	He is that, but he's also a silent film entrepreneur.
1:26.9	And we'll discuss that in just a moment. Please meet Ben Modell.
1:30.4	Hi, Ben. Hi, Leonard. Hi, Jesse. Thanks for having me on and bless you for acknowledging that I do
1:37.0	more than play the piano. That's really, I have become a multi-hyphenate polymath, et cetera, et cetera,
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