The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Culpeper Campus. Adventure films, operetta, comedy and silent movies are all part of the August film schedule at The Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater. David March, a Preservation Specialist in the Moving Image Section and one the three projectionists for the theater, is …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson and John Snelson, both of the Packard Campus. Thursday, July 21 (7:30 p.m.) Santa Fe Trail (Warner Bros., 1940) After graduating from West Point, Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) are both stationed at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Once there, they find that …
The following is a guest post co-written by Jenny Paxson and John Snelson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, July 14 (7:30 p.m.) Four’s a Crowd (Warner Bros., 1938) The four in the screwball comedy Four’s a Crowd are a quartet of Warner Brothers’ biggest stars of 1938: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell and …
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 …
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 …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. As a tribute to the 90th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Marilyn Monroe on June 1, the Packard Campus Theater kicks off the month with three of Monroe’s earliest films that brought her notice before she became …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 26 (7:30 p.m.) Sink the Bismarck! (20th Century-Fox, 1960) The true story of the Royal Navy’s chase and sinking of Nazi Germany’s most powerful warship, the Bismarck, is chronicled in this British drama based on the book …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 19 (7:30 p.m.) What’s Up Doc? – A close-up of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies, Part 1 (Warner Bros., 1932-1951) Special guest Rick Gehr, a cartoon historian, editor, and member of the Warner Bros. animation …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Friday, May 13 (7:30 p.m.) Come On Down!: A TV Game Show Retrospective (1950-1970) The password is “FUN” as the Packard Campus digs into the vaults and “comes on down” for this one-night retrospective of some of TV’s biggest …