Events

Selections from The Wonders of the Biograph

Introduction by Professor Tom Gunning

When:
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 8:00pm - 8:00pm
Description:
Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, introduces two rare compilations of silent film shorts dating from 1896-1903. Unavailable for a century, these films exemplify the marvelous large-screen cinema that first made New York City's Biograph Company famous in the 1890s. The Biograph helped shape how turn-of-the-century audiences viewed the world around them and celebrated the variety of modern American life, presenting train journeys, landscapes, city streets, vaudeville, and more. [35mm prints with English intertitles, Prints for this screening courtesy of the Nederlands Filmmuseum]
Co-sponsored by The Smart Museum of Art in conjunction with the photography exhibition "One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan."