Capitolfest, CNY's 35mm Silent and Early Talkie Film Festival

05/20/2026

Some more Capitolfest titles announced. https://www.romecapitol.com/capitolfest-23/

05/12/2026

We're pleased that our friends at Cliff's Local Market are generously donating toward this year's Capitolfest Mixer! The Mixer will take place on Thursday, August 13, beginning at 5:15 PM. The Mixer will be enhanced this year by Cliff's delicious sandwiches. All Capitolfest attendees are invited to attend.

05/11/2026

We are getting ready to print this year's CAPITOLFEST mailing! Carl LaFong is helping.

04/21/2026

Magnet production commences! A wide variety of poster magnets will be available this Capitolfest.

04/20/2026

We have a schedule. Still several key titles t.b.a., we should be able to announce them soon.

Directed by John Cromwell and A. Edward Sutherland; Nancy Carroll, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Jack Oakie, Skeets Gallagher (74 min.) A back-stage musical (songs by Leo Robin and Richard Whiting) in which Nancy Carroll tries to help struggling band leader Buddy Rogers by breaking up the song and dan...

04/17/2026

Scott Joplin was the king of ragtime, a new kind music for the turn of the 20th century.

04/16/2026

Ticket Link:
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Select 8-session tickets to register for the full festival!

04/16/2026

Just a couple days off from having a semblance of a schedule. Meanwhile, have just confirmed King Baggott's THE HOME-MAKER from Universal in 1925, a UCLA digital restoration of this very critically-acclaimed film. (From the novel by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.) This will likely be in session #3 on Friday night (August 14), accompanied by David Peckham at the organ. (Digitally restored version courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.)

04/09/2026

The (more-or-less) complete Capitolfest schedule will be available very soon. Meanwhile, we CAN announce that we will be screening the Library of Congress' new 35mm restoration of the 1924 Vitagraph production, CAPTAIN BLOOD. Making his Capitolfest debut on the organ will be BRETT MILLER, playing his score derived from the original cue sheet. (Mr. Miller comes highly recommended by LoC's Geo. Willeman, who says, "his score for Captain Blood is PHENOMINAL.") For more info on Brett Miller, visit his webpage at: https://brettmiller.net/
(CAPTAIN BLOOD will be part of session #6 on Saturday evening, August 15.)

04/02/2026