BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23//
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20260409T200409CEST-2006ZTV7Fm@http://www2.movingimage.us
DTSTAMP:20260409T180409Z
DESCRIPTION:\n	Live music by Donald Sosin \n	\n	\n	With theater owners doin
 g their best to attract a more upscale clientele\, producers responded by 
 plundering history and literature. High-class French and Italian imports p
 rovided the model\, and by 1912 most studios were looking to the classics 
 to add a veneer of respectability to their programs of one-reel comedies a
 nd melodramas. \n	\n	\n	Program runs approximately 70 minutes. \n	\n	All f
 ilms from 1912. \n	\n	\n	\n	A Japanese Idyll \n	\n	Dir. Lois Weber. 35mm\,
  Library of Congress. Universal-Rex. Madame Butterfly was still under copy
 right\, so Universal’s most ambitious writer-director-actor came up with h
 er own one-reel version of the bittersweet encounter between a Japanese ma
 id (Cherry Blossom\, played by Weber herself) and a visiting American. Of 
 course\, with an adaptation this free\, no one will mind if you fix the en
 ding. \n	\n	\n	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde \n	\n	Dir. Lucius Henderson. 35mm\,
  Library of Congress. Thanhouser. Robert Louis Stevenson’s diabolical tale
  of split personality had been a great success onstage\, and would prove a
  natural for screen adaptation as well. Director Lucius Henderson was high
 ly praised for his performance of both main roles—although recent scholars
 hip suggests that it may not always be Cruze under all that makeup. \n	\n	
 \n	\n	The Cry of the Children \n	\n	  Dir. George Nichols. 16mm\, Thanhous
 er Company. Thanhouser. A horrifying progressive-era attack on child labor
 \, with interiors shot in a satanic mill near Thanhouser’s New Rochelle st
 udio. Quotations from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1843 poem seem designed
  to make everything less appalling\, but even poetry can’t do much to soft
 en this film’s hopeless conclusion. \n	\n	\n	\n	Robin Hood \n	\n	Dir. Ètie
 nne Arnaud. 35mm\, Fort Lee Film Commission. Éclair. Shot at Éclair’s new 
 studio in Fort Lee\, this earliest surviving Robin Hood film was inspired 
 less by Howard Pyle’s illustrations than by Reginald De Koven’s once-popul
 ar operetta. The half-hour epic was intended to combine European style and
  sensibility with American stars (Robert Frazer as Robin\, Barbara Tennant
  as Maid Marian) and locations (whatever the Palisades might offer). \n	\n
 	\n\nFree with Museum admission on a first-come\, first-served basis. Muse
 um members may reserve tickets in advance by calling 718 777 6800. For mor
 e information about becoming a Museum member and to join online\, please c
 lick here. \n
DTSTART:20121110T183000
DTEND:20121110T183000
LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image
SUMMARY:Classical Cinema
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR