Year 2008 program

Buster Keaton
and
Will Rogers

Two American Comic Heroes

The 16th Annual Buster Keaton Celebration

Sept 26-27, 2008, Iola, KS

Program for 2008 ---- Last Updated 09/13/2008

All activities are held at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center in Iola, Kansas,. Free.
(donations are very much appreciated.)

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Program subject to change.

Friday, Sept 26, 2008, in the main auditorium at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center

Q & A will follow each presentation.

9:30 am Registration begins in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. ( There are no fees.)

          9:50 am    Welcome and Remarks by Susan Raines, Executive Director, Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

                         Emcee FRANK SCHEIDE, Assoc Prof of Communication, University of Arkansas , Fayetteville

    10:00 am -- STEVEN GRABERT, Director, Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Claremore, OK

                                         WILL ROGERS: Oklahoma's Centennial Gift to America

10:50 am -- KEVIN SWEENEY, Ph.D, University of Tampa

KEATON AND COMEDY

11:40am -- Screening of BIG MOMENTS FROM LITTLE PICTURES , a 1924 silent short starring Will Rogers

NOON -- Lunch Break

1:30 pm -- Screening of THE ROPIN' FOOL , a 1922 silent short starring Will Rogers

1:50 pm -- JOHN TIBBETTS, Ph.D. , Professor of Film, University of Kansas

WILL ROGERS: The "Poet Lariat" ofCinema

2:40 pm --ROBERT ARKUS, Film Historian and Archivist

                             RARE KEATON AND ROGERS VIDEO: Screening of Seldom Seen Footage

           3:30 pm -- Break

           3:45 pm -- Screening of UNCENSORED MOVIES , a 1923 silent short starring Will Rogers
                                                    BUSTER KEATON: A Hard Act To Follow (Part 1) , 1987 Documentary by Kevin Brownlow

           5:15 pm -- Dinner Break

           7:30 pm -- EVENING PROGRAM

                       DOUG WATSON ~ A First Person Portrayal ofWill Rogers

                       Short NEIGHBORS (1920) -- Starring Buster Keaton

Feature DOUBLING FOR ROMEO (1921) starring Will Rogers

with live musical accompaniment by MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA.

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Saturday, Sept 27, 2008, in the Main Auditorium of at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center

8:30 am -- REGISTRATION (There are no Fees )

9:00 am --

Welcome and Remarks by SUSAN RAINES, Executive director, Bowlus Fine Arts Center

Emcee BILL SHAFFER

KTWU Ch 11, Topeka

9:10 am -- DAVID MACLEOD, Keaton historian and founder of Blinking Buzzards Society (UK)

BUSTER KEATON: UN-AMERICAN HERO

        10:00 am -- DOUG WATSON, Kansas Humanities Council History Alive Program

                                        WILL ROGERS, HUMORIST (1879 - 1935) A first-person portrayal of Will Rogers

          10:40 am --Break

          10:50 am -- FRANK SCHEIDE, Assoc Prof of Communication, University of Arkansas , Fayetteville

                                         CHEROKEE PHYLOSOPHY AS AMERICAN HERITAGE: WiLL ROGERS AND THE "WHITE PATH"

           11:45 am --Lunch Break

1:00 pm -- Welcome and Introductions/ Emcee --HOOMAN MEHRAN, Film Historian and Co-Editor of The Chaplin Review

1:10 pm -- CYNTHIA MILLER, PhD, Emerson College, Boston, MA

THE ABSURDITY OF CONVENTION:
The Parodies and Practicalities of Will Rogers' Humor

          2:00 pm -- CHRISTINA COOK, Student Presenter, WashburnUniversity

                                 THE HUMAN MOP AND THE CHEROKEE KID:
                                 The Coming of Age of Two Heroic Funnyman

          2:50 pm -- Break-

          3:00 pm. -- LARY MAY, PhD, University of Minnesota.

                               MY ANCESTORS DID NOT COME OVER ON THE MAYFLOWER:
                               Will Rogers and the Politics of Multi Cultural America

        3:50 pm   --   Movie Intro and Cartoon

          3:30 pm -- Screening of STEAMBOAT 'ROUND THE BEND (1935) -- Will Rogers Sound Feature

           5:20 pm -- Dinner Break

7:30 pm -- An Evening of Screenings

Short DON'T PARK THERE (1924) , Will Rogers Silent Short

Feature STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928) , starring Buster Keaton
--with live musical accompaniment by the MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA.