New Experience: A Silent Movie, Old Style

Back in the beginning of the XX century, when movies and movie theaters came to be, all movies were silent. However, the (then new) Hollywood movie studios realized that playing music as the movie was shown made for a much better experience, and so in the 1920's most movie theaters would have a piano (or, in the fancy ones, a pipe organ) playing music during the movie to accentuate what the public was seeing on the screen. At that time, the brand new Paramount Theater was opened in Seattle, to provide the city with a luxurious venue to exhibit the latest hits from Hollywood. As part of that, a huge pipe organ was set up in the theater to play the music for the silent movies of the time. Eventually, the Paramount Theater switched to live theater and musicals, which it does to this day. However, on one Monday a month, the Paramount will revert to its original purpose, and show a silent movie, on its "Silent Movie Mondays" . I checked that out yesterday. The movie for last n...