

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The General (1927) Silent Film with Live Accompaniment!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 08 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Showtime:
Sun Feb 8 at 2 PM


We're celebrating the silent film era! We've selected 3 incredible films, representing 3 genres, all being presented with live piano accompaniment by composer, Doug Protsik.


We're kicking off the series with Buster Keaton's The General: One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. When Johnny's fiancée, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces, Gray pursues the soldiers, using various modes of transportation in comic action scenes that highlight Keaton's boundless wit and dexterity.

(1927; 1 hour, 23 minutes)


Doug Protsik Bio

Director of Maine Traditional Music Association and Director of Maine Fiddle Camp, Doug Protsik has played music all his life since starting piano lessons at age five. He has been playing and performing the ‘Old Time Piano” style since the early 1970’s, composing, performing, and recording old-time piano scores for silent movies. Doug has scored and performed for countless showings throughout Maine and has been commissioned and produced 12 new old-time piano scores for silent movie restoration projects that were broadcast on Turner Classic Movies. Doug’s scores attempt to capture the unique flavor with the music as it embellishes the action on screen, in an original and authentic way. He also has established a fun aspect to the performances by including “musical jokes” in his scores, challenging the audience to recognize them.


Doug has performed throughout the United States at folk festivals, concerts, and dances. Doug has also traveled and performed in Europe and spent seven months touring the world learning and exploring the traditional music in countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Nepal. In 2008 working with the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat, he was asked to participate in the first Turkmenistan International Movie Festival by composing a special silent movie orchestral score for professional Turkmen musicians and performed with them at the festival. 


All the music Doug performs to accompany silent films is memorized, arranged, and improvised by him to allow for a seamless flow from scene to scene. Attending a performance allows for a wonderful musical, as well as an historic and entertaining film experience.


Original Film Score Recordings for Turner Classic Movies

The Man from Texas , The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock (1926), Love Never Dies, Easy Virtue (Alfred Hitchcock (1927), White Tiger, The Eyes of the Mummy, Der Golem, The Haunted Castle


The Silent Film Era

Silent films, from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, were a foundational era in cinema, using visual storytelling, intertitles (text cards), expressive acting, physical comedy, dramatic gestures, camera angles, and editing to convey plots.

Theaters employed pianists or orchestras to provide musical scores, adding emotion and atmosphere, making them not truly "silent.” And the silent films provided universal entertainment with the lack of spoken language allowing silent films to be enjoyed across cultures.


This period saw innovations in filmmaking, with cinematic techniques (editing, camera work that remain fundamental today), the rise of global stars like Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, and the birth of major genres like comedy, horror, and Westerns, establishing techniques still used today.


Despite significant losses due to neglect and destruction (over 75% of silent films are estimated to be lost), surviving works are preserved and celebrated for their artistic depth.
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Damariscotta
- **state**: ME
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2 Theater St, Damariscotta, ME, United States, Maine 04543
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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 08 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm
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