October is Silent Movie Month in Ithaca
and in celebration of the City’s storied moviemaking past, the Tompkins County
Public Library and Ithaca Motion Picture Project will partner for a month of
programming and exhibits.
Opening October 1, “Lights, Camera, Silents!,” a photographic exhibit featuring a montage of pictures of local sets and locations used for filming movies by the famed Wharton Brothers. This exhibit is the second to be displayed by IMPP at the Library. Last fall, an 80-foot-long structural timeline of Ithaca’s movie-making history was exhibited as part of “Romance, Exploits and Peril: When Movies Were Made in Ithaca,” a county-wide exhibition on the history of silent moviemaking and Ithaca's role in that history.
On October 21 at 2 p.m., TCPL will feature an encore presentation of the Martin Scorsese film “Hugo.” Based on the book, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick, the Oscar-winning “Hugo” introduces pioneering French filmmaker and illusionist Georges Méliés.
The celebration will continue October 28 at 2 p.m. when Ithaca Made Movies Founder Terry Harbin hosts an afternoon of silent films. Harbin, an expert on locally-made films will screen “Patria,” “The Mysteries of Myra” and “The Romance of Elaine" during this free, family-friendly event.
Displays of young reader and adult books about the silent film industry will also be on display at TCPL during October.
All Library programs are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
To learn more about the Ithaca Motion Picture Project or Silent Movie Month, visit http://www.ithacamotionpictureproject.org/. To learn more about Ithaca Made Movies visit, www.ithacamademovies.com.
Opening October 1, “Lights, Camera, Silents!,” a photographic exhibit featuring a montage of pictures of local sets and locations used for filming movies by the famed Wharton Brothers. This exhibit is the second to be displayed by IMPP at the Library. Last fall, an 80-foot-long structural timeline of Ithaca’s movie-making history was exhibited as part of “Romance, Exploits and Peril: When Movies Were Made in Ithaca,” a county-wide exhibition on the history of silent moviemaking and Ithaca's role in that history.
On October 21 at 2 p.m., TCPL will feature an encore presentation of the Martin Scorsese film “Hugo.” Based on the book, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick, the Oscar-winning “Hugo” introduces pioneering French filmmaker and illusionist Georges Méliés.
The celebration will continue October 28 at 2 p.m. when Ithaca Made Movies Founder Terry Harbin hosts an afternoon of silent films. Harbin, an expert on locally-made films will screen “Patria,” “The Mysteries of Myra” and “The Romance of Elaine" during this free, family-friendly event.
Displays of young reader and adult books about the silent film industry will also be on display at TCPL during October.
All Library programs are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
To learn more about the Ithaca Motion Picture Project or Silent Movie Month, visit http://www.ithacamotionpictureproject.org/. To learn more about Ithaca Made Movies visit, www.ithacamademovies.com.
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