Saturday | August 11, 2007 7:00 pm

The Cameraman / Tarzan and His Mate

Screening on Film

Tonight we bring two short gems from the Somerville High School film collection to the big screen. When we watched Monkey Tale, we knew we had to share this bicycle safety film with our friends out there in the dark. Next up, monkeys do grammar in Monkey See, Monkey Do: Verbs. In The Cameraman, a monkey effects the vast world of monkey cinema, even as he yields the spotlight to his more famous, human pal Buster Keaton. Another human friend of the monkey, Tarzan (Weissmuller), appears with his sexy gal pal Jane and everyone’s favorite chimp pal, Cheetah, in Tarzan and His Mate, arguably the best of the Weismuller-era Tarzan films.

PROGRAM

Monkey Tale

Directed by Margaret Kathleen O’Brien.
New Zealand, 1952, 16mm, black & white, 9 min.
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Verbs

Directed by Marjorie Bean.
US, 1971, 16mm, color, 10 min.
The Cameraman

Directed by Edward Sedgwick.
With Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon.
US, 1928, 35mm, black & white, silent, 67 min.
With music track
Tarzan and His Mate

Directed by Cedric Gibbons.
With Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Neil Hamilton.
US, 1934, 35mm, black & white, 93 min.