Bruce Loeb on Piano. Patrick Loughney presents a program of selected short silent films preserved from the historic Library of Congress Paper Print Collection of films copyrighted prior to 1915. More than 3000 of the earliest motion pictures witnessed by American audiences survive in this unique collection, including films of San Francisco before and after the 1906 fire. The program includes films by the Thomas Edison and American Mutoscope and Biograph companies produced in California and New York during the period 1898 to 1915. Some of the films to be screened are: A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906), A Trip to Berkeley (1906), Scene in Chinatown (1903), Mt. Tamalpais Railroad (1898), San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1906), Arrival of Emigrants, Ellis Island (1906), The Skyscrapers of New York (1906), Star Theatre (1901), and What Happened on 23rd Street (NYC, 1901). The program will conclude with a promotional film produced for the San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, starring Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle.