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This entry was posted in Movies and tagged silent movies on September 8, 2024 by Gary McGath

I’ve got a new video up of a classic silent film with my accompaniment: Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life (1913). It’s a Mack Sennett sendup of already old melodrama clichés, complete with a damsel being tied to a railroad track. Real-life auto racing star Barney Oldfield outdistances a train to rescue her. Improvising music to go with it was a lot of fun.


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