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New to WFPP: Alyssa Lopez (@prof_alopez) on the career of exhibitor Maria C. Downs!
"Mrs. Maria C. Downs (née Godoy), variously referred to as owner, proprietor, and manager, opened the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem in 1909."
wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ma…
Today at 14:30 at #IlCinemaRitrovato: Nell Shipman's WHITE WATER + Lydia Hayward's THE BOATSWAIN’S MATE + Florence Turner's HYPNOTISING THE HYPNOTIST 😍📷 festival.ilcinemaritrovato.i…
Happy New Year! Looking forward to more film feminism in 2024!
#womeninfilm
NEW TO WFPP: Richard Abel on the career of American film exhibitor and theater manager Flossie A. Jones.
wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/fl…
NEW TO WFPP: @lukemckernan on British screenwriting duo Muriel Alleyne and Christabel Lowndes-Yates. They are most notable for the written advice they gave to others on making films.
wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/mu…
Start your weekend off right with a Polish silent melodrama/maritime action/comedy film produced by Maria Hirszbein.
"After Alice, Beyond Lois" concludes today (11/10) at @MoMAFilm w/ ZEW MORZA (1927).
3:30pm! Live music by the legend @unpianistique!
moma.org/calendar/events/911…
Today (11/7) at @MoMAFilm:
Jane Gaines introduces THE GIRL SPY BEFORE VICKSBURG (US, 1910), written by Gene Gauntier, and KAJASTUS (Finland, 1930), written by Gerda Hintze.
4:30pm! Live musical accompaniment by @silentfilmmusic!
moma.org/calendar/events/911…
Tonight (11/6) at 6:30pm at @MoMAFilm:
"Live Life Smiling," a program of three comedies from England, Sweden, and Denmark.
Live musical accompaniment by Amanda Cattel!
moma.org/calendar/events/912…









