Ella Cinders

press release: Duck Soup Cinema, Overture Center’s silent film series that celebrates the heritage of the Capitol Theater, returns on Saturday, Jan. 19 with two screenings of Ella Cinders at 2 and 7 p.m. This is the first screening of Ella Cinders as part of Duck Soup Cinema.

Ella Cinders | Saturday, Jan. 19, 2 & 7 p.m. | Tickets $8/$3 (children)

• This 1926 silent comedy stars Colleen Moore, and Lloyd Hughes co-stars. While no known 35 MM prints of this film exist, the Library of Congress (LOC) preserved it as a DVD from a remaining 16 MM print. Ella Cinders was named a film of “cultural, historical or esthetic importance” by the National Film Registry of the LOC in 2013. Overture obtained the movie from the LOC. According to the loc.gov website, “The film is an archetype of 1920s comedy, featuring a star whose air of emancipation inspired her generation.”
• Organist: Jelani Eddington
• MC: Joe Thompson
• Lobby acts: Wayne the Wizard, Doc the Rube
• Vaudeville acts: Angela Puerta, Singer; Tara Harris, baton twirler; Danielle Crim, singer

Duck Soup Cinema is nationally known for providing an authentic silent film experience in the historic Capitol Theater, which celebrated its 90^th anniversary in January 2018. Film showings include vaudeville entertainment with an emcee, door prizes and a classic feature film with live organ accompaniment on the theater’s original 1928 Grand Barton Organ.

For over 30 years, Overture has revived and celebrated the heritage and legacy of Capitol Theater, originally built for silent film and opened in 1928. The two series, ‘Sounds of Silents’ (1986-1998) and ‘Duck Soup Cinema’ (1999-present), have engaged patrons in nearly 95,000 silent film experiences, garnering national recognition for authenticity complete with music on the 1928 Grand Barton Organ, one of the last of its kind still in its original theater.