Back to 1923

“Our Hospitality,” a 1923 film starring Buster Keaton, will be screened at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Saturday at 7 p.m., with live accompaniment by Bernie Anderson on the church’s organ. The program has been rescheduled from an earlier date.

Keaton, known for his physical comedy and his “great stone face,” plays a city slicker from New York who finds himself in the middle of a family feud in Kentucky in the 1840s. A satire of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, the film, at the time of its release, was called by Variety  “one of the best comedies ever produced for the screen.”

Mr. Anderson has an M.F.A. in musical theater writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and studied with the famed organists Lee Erwin and Ashley Miller. In 2001, he was the organist for the New Jersey edition of the Library of Congress’s American Movie Classics Film Preservation Tour, performing his own scores for Laurel and Hardy’s “Big Business,” “The Great Train Robbery,” and Harold Lloyd’s “Safety Last.”

A live pianist or organist accompanied most silent films, and the music was usually improvised. Mr. Anderson follows in that tradition, improvising on the spot in order to maintain a feeling of spontaneity. The church suggests a $15 donation, though children and young adults will be admitted free.