<p>Ben and Kerr talk about Ben’s busy Halloween season, underscoring the unmasking scene in “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925) at Angel Nyack, and his encounters with theater ghosts; also covered are Ben&#8217;s accompanying “Her Sister From Paris” (1925) with Constance Talmadge at the Silent Clowns Film Series, the differences between playing a church pipe organ and a theatre organ for silents, and more. The episode includes performance excerpts from Ben’s scores for the two films mentioned above as well as from a show at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater of Josef Von Sternberg’s “Underworld” (1928).</p> <p>Show notes for episode 71 can be found <strong><a href="https://silentfilmmusic.com/episode71-show-notes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a></strong>.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-secondary-color has-css-opacity has-secondary-background-color has-background is-style-wide"/>