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In which I actually seem to have done relatively little.

Notable: invited to make a list of silent film classics to be added to the library's DVD collection. This I will do, though it's not anything I would have expected. Came out of a conversation with the director, who discovered some extra funds and was going to order a Charlie Chaplin collection with it. I suggested that silent films would need some promotion in order to get anyone to pay attention to them, which turned to the question of what others I'd consider to be classics that we could use for promoting the idea.

I suggested several:

Nosferatu
Wings
Son of the Sheik
The General
Ben Hur
Orphans of the Storm
The Ten Commandments
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Thief of Bagdad
The Phantom of the Opera
The Gold Rush

I'd prefer pipe organ or orchestral accompaniments, but those may be hard to get. Piano will do if it's in the appropriate style.

She's willing to consider working up a film festival in which we'd show and discuss several of them, one a week this coming summer. Now the trick is to find DVD copies with appropriate music soundtracks...