The 125th Anniversary 2 1/2 min. program will feature:
Surf at Monterey, Band Drill and Serpentine Dance
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Speakers
Charlie Musser, Yale University: “The Vitascope in NYC: Some Highlights”
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Tom Gunning, University of Chicago: “All the World on a Screen: Making Up the First Film Program”
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André Gaudreault, University of Montréal: “All You Want to Know About the December 28 Projection That is False Even Though Everyone Thinks it Was True”
9:00 – 9:30 pm – Tributes
– Rough Sea at Dover (R.W. Paul): Noam Elcott, Associate Professor and Sobel-Dunn Chair for Art Humanities, Columbia University
– Pillow Fight (Edison Co. 1897): Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University School of the Arts
– Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Edison Co. 1894): Ron Gregg, Senior Lecturer and Concentration Head of Film and Media Studies, Columbia University School of the Arts
– Corner Madison and State Streets, Chicago (Edison Co. June-July 1897): Aurore Spiers ’15 Film MA, Columbia University School of the Arts, University of Chicago; and Carolyn Jacobs ’15 Film MA, Columbia University School of the Arts, Yale University
– Sandow (Edison Co. 1893): Richard Peña, Professor of Professional Practice, Film, Columbia University School of the Arts
– Annie Oakley (Edison Co. 1895): Briand Gentry ’17 Film MA, Columbia University School of the Arts, University of Michigan
– Ella Lola, a la Trilby (Edison Co. 1898): Artemis Willis ‘09 Film MA, Columbia University School of the Arts, MIT
– Troops at Evacuation of Havana (Edison Co. 1899): Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro ’17 Film MA, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York University
– Transport “Whitney” Leaving the Dock (Edison Co. May, 1898): Hunter Koch (CC ’18), University of Chicago
– Boxing Cats (Edison Co. 1896): Nico Baumbach, Associate Professor of Film, Columbia University School of the Arts
– Comedy: Rob King, Professor of Film and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Film, Columbia University School of the Arts
– Star Theatre (American Mutascope and Biograph Company, 1902), James Schamus, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University School of the Arts
– Awakening of Rip (American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., 1896), Daniel Lawrence Aufmann ’20 Film MA, Columbia University School of the Arts, University of Minnesota