Fairfield Arts & Convention Center, Iowa • October 27, 2021:

Full silent film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) with live organ accompaniment by Jay Warren

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 American silent horror film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film, which stars John Barrymore, is an adaptation of the 1886 novella 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson. John S. Robertson directed the production, and Clara Beranger wrote the screenplay, based on the 1887 stage play by Thomas Russell Sullivan that in turn was based on the novel. The story, set in late Victorian London, portrays the tragic consequences of a doctor's experiments in separating the dual personalities he thinks define all humans: one good, the other evil. The film is now in the public domain.

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Chicago's foremost photoplay organist, Jay Warren, brings all the color, excitement, and glamour of the silent film era back to life with his original scores for the silver screen. As a regularly featured photoplay organist for the Silent Film Society of Chicago, he has accompanied most of the great silent films throughout his career in his famous rousing style. He has been featured annually for the SFSC's highly regarded SILENT SUMMER Film Festival since its inception in 2000.

For twelve consecutive years he held forth playing the E.M. Skinner pipe organ for silent films at the University of Chicago's famed Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. He also performs film accompaniment on the beautiful Letourneau pipe organ in the Crimi Auditorium of Aurora University. Jay has also made several silent film photoplay appearances on the incredible 5/80 Wurlitzer located at the Sanfilippo Foundation's Place de la Musique in Barrington.

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Video produced by Werner Elmker Audio-Visual Studio
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