Arts & Entertainment

A CENTURY AGO: THE FILMS OF 1911

Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in association with the California Film Institute

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates the year 1911 and its developmental contributions to motion pictures with selected short films from that year, organized and presented byRandy Haberkamp, the Academy's Director of Educational Services, with improvised piano accompaniment by Los Angeles-based musician Michael Mortilla.  

The program will include Mary Pickfordin Thomas Ince's IMP film The Dream, G.W. Anderson in Essanay'sBroncho Billy's Christmas Dinner, John Bunny and Flora Finch in Vitagraph's Her Crowning Glory, Kathlyn Williams in the Selig Company's Lost in the Jungle, Winsor McCay's first animated film for Vitagraph Winsor McCay, The Famous Cartoonist of The New York Herald and His Moving Comics, a newly-preserved print of the San Antonio Star Film Company's Billy and His Pal and surprises galore. Most prints are in 35mm and are drawn from the collections of the Academy Film Archive, the British Film Institute, the Library of Congress, the Nederlands Filmmuseum and the UCLA Film &n Television Archive. Program approximately 2 hours. 

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