INDIANAPOLIS — Film historian Eric Grayson will screen the 1918 silent film, Little Orphant Annie, starring Colleen Moore, at the Garfield Park Arts Center, on April 16, at 8 p.m. He recently restored the film using three badly deteriorated prints owned by the Library of Congress. He will speak about the restoration process and give the introduction to the film.
Annie includes footage of famed author James Whitcomb Riley who had died two years before. He had been featured in a film celebrating Indiana’s Centennial and that footage was used, with slight alterations, in this film.
Pianist Roger Lippincott will provide a musical accompaniment. As always, in addition to the introduction to the film and to the short that will precede it, from Grayson’s vast collection of films and shorts, there will be a Q&A following the feature.
Admission is $5. Concessions are $1. For more information, visit www.gpacarts.org or call 317-.327-7135.
