A screening of the silent film, Wings--the first film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture--will take place August 10, 2014 at 7:30pm as a kick-off to the Armed Forces Parade on Monday, August 11th and the Atlantic City Airshow on Wednesday, August 13th. The accompaniment will be performed on the 4 manual/55 rank Kimball in the Adrian Phillips Ballroom by Boardwalk Halls Staff Organist Steven Ball and will feature extensive portions of the reconstructed original score. All proceeds will benefit the restoration effort for both organs-- a massive 10 year, 16 million dollar project being undertaken by the non-profit Historic Organ Restoration Committee (501c3). Currently the Ballroom Kimball restoration is approximately 75% complete, and it is the feature instrument for our annual silent film series. Wings is a 1927 American silent war film set during the First World War produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Clara Bow, Charles Buddy Rogers, and Richard Arlen, and Gary Cooper appears in a role which helped launch his career in Hollywood. The film, a romantic action-war picture, was rewritten by scriptwriters Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton from a story by John Monk Saunders to accommodate Bow, Paramounts biggest star at the time. Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. Wellman was hired as he was the only director in Hollywood at the time who had World War I combat pilot experience, although Richard Arlen and John Monk Saunders had also served in the war as military aviators. The film was shot on location on a budget of $2 million at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas between September 7, 1926 and April 7, 1927. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through ticketmaster at ticketmaster/wings-silent-film-with-live-musical-atlantic-city-new-jersey-08-10-2014/event/02004CD3A8CCDDBE or at the box office on the evening of the show. Season passes to the silent film series are available through our Friends of the Pipe Organs of Boardwalk Hall Membership program and will also be available that evening. Our next silent film in this series will be Phantom of the Opera on October 26.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:57:12 +0000
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