Jon Mirsalis on Piano This program features excerpts and long-unseen films recently preserved by the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute. Introduced by Joe Empsucha, Archivist of the National Center, the program will feature Ralph Barton and Anita Loos' Camille, starring prominent figures of the 1920s including Sinclair Lewis, Clarence Darrow, Paul Robeson and Charlie Chaplin. Barton and Loos wrote a mock version of the Dumas story and invited their friends to star in it. Chaplin's parody of Nazimova's performance in Salome and his expanded "dance of the rolls" from The Gold Rush, H. L. Mencken's mugging for the camera, and Lewis' depiction of human emotions are just some of the highlights of this light-hearted spoof. Also included will be the only surviving footage from Laurel and Hardy's only color feature, The Rogue Song; The Oubliette (1914), one of Lon Chaney's first performances; excerpts from Charles Pryor's films of Pancho Villa and the Mexican revolution, as well as other silent and sound films.