📽 Silents Synced Pairs Classic Movies With ’90s Alt-Rock (AARP Article)

[Winter2024]

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The national Silents Synced drive-in film series features ’20s classics set to ’90s alternative rock.

By Edna Gundersen, AARP. Published September 20, 2024.

Silent movies practically went extinct a century ago, but they may breathe new life into the movie business in 2024 — and the sound will be loud! Josh Frank, 49, of Austin’s Blue Starlite Drive-In theater, is launching Silents Synced, a series of screenings of silent films with alternative rock scores. It will screen in about 200 theaters nationwide. The innovative program, partly inspired by the Pink Floyd laser light shows and Rocky Horror Picture Show midnight movie screenings of Frank’s youth, could attract over-50 audiences nostalgic for 1990s alt-rock to theaters.

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