Andreas Benz will perform selections from the nitrate film era, including silent film theme songs from the 1920s, as well as music from the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. Open to all museum visitors and Nitrate Picture Show passholders.

Andreas Benz will perform selections from the nitrate film era, including silent film theme songs from the 1920s, as well as music from the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. Open to all museum visitors and Nitrate Picture Show passholders.

Nitrate Picture Show Portrait of Jennie would be the last film made by legendary producer David O. Selznick in Hollywood. Selznick, a romantic by nature, was drawn to the story of an uninspired artist finding his muse in the guise of a young girl he meets in Central Park. The film is sensitively directed, and the actors give wonderfully restrained performances.

Nitrate Picture Show This 80-minute program of short nitrate films includes Movietone’s Feminine World / Behind the Footlights (Vyvyan Donner, US 1946), Rainbow Dance (Len Lye, UK 1936) & Musical Poster No. 1 (Len Lye, UK 1940), trailers for five Technicolor features (US 1937–43), and Gone With the Wind screen tests.

Nitrate Picture Show It is unlikely we will be screening any of Douglas Sirk’s signature Technicolor melodramas at the Nitrate Picture Show, as all of them were made during the safety film era. But we are lucky to have a projectable nitrate print of not just an early film by Sirk (credited under his birth name, Detlef Sierck) but one that was seminal in the career of this highly acclaimed director.

Nitrate Picture Show Mikio Naruse’s Repast and Yasujiro Ozu’s Early Summer swept Japan’s film competitions in 1951, splitting awards for best film, director, actress, and supporting actress. Although Naruse is less familiar outside Japan, he is also highly regarded as a major director of contemporary drama films.

Nitrate Picture Show In 1947, finally free from producer David O. Selznick’s interference, Alfred Hitchcock was determined that his next picture be produced by his own Transatlantic Pictures Corp. The company’s inaugural production, Rope, would be an adaptation of a 1929 stage play inspired by infamous thrill-killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.

Nitrate Picture Show A landmark in the history of German cinema, The Joyless Street marked a turning point from Expressionism to New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). The film also marked the beginning of Greta Garbo’s international career, and being her only work in Germany, partnered her for the first and last time with such legendary performers as Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauss, and Valeska Gert.