Heroic Women Trilogy with Accompaniment by Dave Calendine

Description

Music House Museum's Silent Film Series offers a triple feature of heroic women on Nov. 24 with showings at 5:30 and 7:30 pm. Red Wings and Fox Theatre Organist Dave Calendine has chosen three shorts where the female leads save the day during their adventures. This a bit surprising given that the films were made between 1912 and 1915, however this was at the height of the suffragette movement. They  were all incredibly popular.

Two of the films are from the "Hazards of Helen" film series and are "The Wrong Order Train" and "The Leap for the Water Tower". In the first Helen finds herself on the rear observation deck of a runaway express train with the door to the inside closed, with the air-brake of the engine damaged, the engine itself full of steam and inaccessible, and the train speeding ahead on the wrong track. In the second film "Leap From the Tower", a disgruntled fired worker decides to get even by tampering with the brakes of a large train.  Helen receives the news at an intermediate station and has to try and fix the problem before disaster strikes.
In keeping with the 'train' theme, the third film features Anne Q. as the telegraph operator at the local train station in "The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher". She discovers that a notorious car thief is in town and decides to bring him to justice.

Dave Calendine is a Music House Museum favorite! Now a resident of the Detroit area, Calendine has served as an organist for The Detroit Red Wings, is a staff organist at The Fox Theater, performs at The Redford Theater and at his church as well as concerts at the Sanfillipo Foundation in Illinois, and at the national Music Box Society International conventions. He also serves as the national president of the American Theatre Organist Society (ATOS).