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Archive: June 2016 (5 Posts)

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus (June 24-25, 2016)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Friday, June 24 (7:30 p.m.) The North Star (RKO, 1943) Designed to gather sympathy for the Russian people and strengthen American support for the U.S. government’s alliance with the Soviet Union during World War II, Lewis Milestone’s 1943 drama focuses …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (June 16-18, 2016)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Rachel Parker, of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 16 (7:30 p.m.) Silent Movie Double Feature Whispering Shadows (Peerless Feature, 1921) After attending a séance, a young couple deals with the question of whether the dead have the power to warn their loved ones of impending danger. This unusual …

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Bob Hope and D-Day: an unconventional season finale

Posted by: Karen Fishman

The following is a guest post by David Jackson, Archivist, Bob Hope Collection, Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. Recently I began the task of processing the papers for the Bob Hope Collection, held in the Recorded Sound Section, at the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia. The papers complement the moving …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (June 10-11, 2016)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Friday, June 10 (7:30 p.m.) Gaslight (MGM, 1944) Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer star in this classic chiller about a man who slowly manipulates his wife into believing she is going insane. This second adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 …