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Archive: November 2019 (2 Posts)

A view looking past a digital display screen towards the doors of an indoor theater, with

Happy 125th Birthday to the Mutoscope!

Posted by: Karen Fishman

This blog post was written by Dorinda Hartmann, viewing technician in the Moving Image Research Center. On November 21, 1894, 125 years ago today, inventor Herman Casler submitted a patent for the Mutoscope, an early motion picture device. The Mutoscope was a single-person ‘peep show’ type of machine, coin-operated, and the floor model had a …

A view looking past a digital display screen towards the doors of an indoor theater, with

Film Night at the Pickford Theater: Thursday, November 21, 2019

Posted by: Karen Fishman

NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY Each year, the Librarian of Congress selects 25 films of enduring importance to American culture for inclusion in the National Film Registry. The selection takes into account thousands of titles nominated annually by the public, as well as recommendations of the National Film Preservation Board and the Library’s film curators. Once a …