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Coming soon: 125th Anniversary – Edison’s Vitascope (Columbia University)

 

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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”

Tom Gunning, University of Chicago: “All the World on a Screen: Making Up the First Film Program”

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

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