The Heights is one of the things we love about these cities: It regularly screens silent black and white classics accompanied by a live Wurlitzer organ, just the way your great-granny saw them. Even the folks at the Heights have to agree that sound was a pretty great invention, though, and to celebrate seventy-five years of talkies, they are screening a dozen vintage Vitaphone short films from the twenties. After a break for boxed lunches and movie games, they’ll wrap up the evening with a showing of Follow Through, a Technicolor musical that originally showed at the Heights in 1930. By the way, Vitaphone, a recorded disc played at 33 rpms in sync with the film, was the first cinematic sound process. 3951 Central Ave N.E., Columbia Heights; 763-788-9079; www.heightstheater.com
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