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We’re celebrating the 120th Anniversary of the first projected movie screening in the United States with a veritable treasure trove of some of the earliest moving pictures ever seen. On April 23, 1896, crowds gathered at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall (where Macy’s Herald Square stands today) and watched Edison’s Vitascope project motion pictures on a 20-foot screen, housed in an ornate gold frame. This was not the cinema as we know it today, or even necessarily what we think of when we think of silent film. No, these early moving pictures have been termed the “cinema of attractions” - lacking narrative, but designed to elicit impulses and excitement simply through the act of looking. Featuring many films from the Edison Company, like the world’s first blockbuster “The Great Train Robbery,” along with historical context and thoughtful analysis from scholars and archivists, this program is a must-see for those interested in America’s great indigenous art form.

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We’re celebrating the 120th Anniversary of the first projected movie screening in the United States with a veritable treasure trove of some of the earliest moving pictures ever seen. On April 23, 1896, crowds gathered at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall (where Macy’s Herald Square stands today) and watched Edison’s Vitascope project motion pictures on a 20-foot screen, housed in an ornate gold frame. This was not the cinema as we know it today, or even necessarily what we think of when we think of silent film. No, these early moving pictures have been termed the “cinema of attractions” - lacking narrative, but designed to elicit impulses and excitement simply through the act of looking. Featuring many films from the Edison Company, like the world’s first blockbuster “The Great Train Robbery,” along with historical context and thoughtful analysis from scholars and archivists, this program is a must-see for those interested in America’s great indigenous art form.

Documentary

We’re celebrating the 120th Anniversary of the first projected movie screening in the United States with a veritable treasure trove of some of the earliest moving pictures ever seen.