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Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, March 5 (7:30 p.m.) The Charge of the Light Brigade (Warner Bros., 1936) Errol Flynn stars as Major Geoffrey Vickers, an officer in the 27th Lancers stationed in India. When his regiment is drawn out on maneuvers, Indian …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Our final week highlighting selections from the National Film Registry. Thursday, February 26 (7:30 p.m.) The Gang’s All Here (20th Century-Fox, 1943) In The Gang’s All Here, a soldier (James Ellison), who turns out to be a rich playboy …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. More National Film Registry treats this week. Thursday, February 19 (7:30 p.m.) The Big Lebowski (Gramercy, 1998, R-rated *) From the unconventional visionaries Joel and Ethan Coen came this 1998 tale of kidnapping, mistaken identity and bowling. The Coens …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Recording Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. We’re dark this weekend because of the President’s Day holiday, so only one National Film Registry screening this week…but it’s a good one, well-timed for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Thursday, February 12 (7:30 p.m.) Young Mr. Lincoln (20th Century-Fox, 1939) …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. This month, the Packard Campus Theater celebrates the National Film Registry, those films deemed by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with the National Film Preservation Board to be of special cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance. Thursday, Feb. 5 …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Our final week celebrating the work of the Packard Campus Film Preservation Laboratory. Thursday, January 29 (7:30 p.m.) Mary of Scotland (RKO, 1936) John Ford directed this historical drama, which stars Katharine Hepburn as Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. We continue our series celebrating the work of the Packard Campus Film Preservation Lab. Thursday, January 15 (7:30 p.m.) Nothing But a Man (Cinema V, 1964) A groundbreaking work filmed during the tumult of the civil rights movement, this …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. We’re starting 2015 by celebrating the Packard Campus Film Preservation Laboratory’s work all month. The process of preserving a motion picture can be a long and tedious endeavor. Repairing old, fragile film frame-by-frame can take weeks, followed by extensive …
Posted in: National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater