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Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum
October 5, 2024–August 31, 2025
Main Galleries
Events for November
Friday, November 1, 2024, 1 p.m.
In Focus: Film Preservation Services
Online
Members of the film preservation team will discuss the processes and challenges for film preservation in the digital age.
Saturday, November 2, 2024, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
As the George Eastman Museum approaches and celebrates its 75th anniversary, we are featuring a group of exhibitions that highlight a wide range of holdings from the museum’s collection. With this selection of objects in the Collection Gallery, we continue our broad survey of works to draw parallels and connections between photography, history, and culture. The objects chosen for this exhibition will chart a course through this history, identifying notable movements and trends while giving context to a breadth of photographic practices, technologies, communities, and traditions.
Saturday, November 2, 2024, All Day
A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films
Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Sunday, November 3, 2024, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
As the George Eastman Museum approaches and celebrates its 75th anniversary, we are featuring a group of exhibitions that highlight a wide range of holdings from the museum’s collection. With this selection of objects in the Collection Gallery, we continue our broad survey of works to draw parallels and connections between photography, history, and culture. The objects chosen for this exhibition will chart a course through this history, identifying notable movements and trends while giving context to a breadth of photographic practices, technologies, communities, and traditions.
Sunday, November 3, 2024, All Day
A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films
Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Monday, November 4, 2024, All Day
A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films
Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, All Day
A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films
Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
As the George Eastman Museum approaches and celebrates its 75th anniversary, we are featuring a group of exhibitions that highlight a wide range of holdings from the museum’s collection. With this selection of objects in the Collection Gallery, we continue our broad survey of works to draw parallels and connections between photography, history, and culture. The objects chosen for this exhibition will chart a course through this history, identifying notable movements and trends while giving context to a breadth of photographic practices, technologies, communities, and traditions.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
As the George Eastman Museum approaches and celebrates its 75th anniversary, we are featuring a group of exhibitions that highlight a wide range of holdings from the museum’s collection. With this selection of objects in the Collection Gallery, we continue our broad survey of works to draw parallels and connections between photography, history, and culture. The objects chosen for this exhibition will chart a course through this history, identifying notable movements and trends while giving context to a breadth of photographic practices, technologies, communities, and traditions.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, All Day
A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films
Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Thursday, November 7, 2024, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
As the George Eastman Museum approaches and celebrates its 75th anniversary, we are featuring a group of exhibitions that highlight a wide range of holdings from the museum’s collection. With this selection of objects in the Collection Gallery, we continue our broad survey of works to draw parallels and connections between photography, history, and culture. The objects chosen for this exhibition will chart a course through this history, identifying notable movements and trends while giving context to a breadth of photographic practices, technologies, communities, and traditions.
Thursday, November 7, 2024, All Day
A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films
Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Thursday, November 7, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
The Name of the Game Is Kill!
Dryden Theatre
Anomoly Film Festival Returning for the second year in a row, Anomaly - the Rochester Genre Film Festival digs deep into the George Eastman Museum archives to uncover hidden treasures not typically considered for the general program.
Friday, November 8, 2024, All Day
A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films
Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Friday, November 8, 2024, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
As the George Eastman Museum approaches and celebrates its 75th anniversary, we are featuring a group of exhibitions that highlight a wide range of holdings from the museum’s collection. With this selection of objects in the Collection Gallery, we continue our broad survey of works to draw parallels and connections between photography, history, and culture. The objects chosen for this exhibition will chart a course through this history, identifying notable movements and trends while giving context to a breadth of photographic practices, technologies, communities, and traditions.
Friday, November 8, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Henry Fonda for President
Film Screenings
Henry Fonda for President It’s too late to elect Henry Fonda president - he died in 1982. But in Alexander Horwath’s new documentary essay, and in a land where actors can become presidents, we can imagine an America led by Fonda, reflecting his ancestors’ immigration to North America and his own work ethic, as represented by the films he made.
Saturday, November 9, 2024, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
As the George Eastman Museum approaches and celebrates its 75th anniversary, we are featuring a group of exhibitions that highlight a wide range of holdings from the museum’s collection. With this selection of objects in the Collection Gallery, we continue our broad survey of works to draw parallels and connections between photography, history, and culture. The objects chosen for this exhibition will chart a course through this history, identifying notable movements and trends while giving context to a breadth of photographic practices, technologies, communities, and traditions.
Saturday, November 9, 2024, All Day
A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films
Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Saturday, November 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Dryden Roundtable: Ask Us Anything!
Dryden Theatre
Dryden RoundtableWhat is the best seat in The Dryden? What goes into preparing a film print for projection? What goes on before you even set a foot in the theater? Where do film prints come from? Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case, Chief Projectionist Sheri Smith, and Theater Manager Timothy Yim-Stueve will take the stage in this informal question and answer session.
Saturday, November 9, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Behind the Scenes (on 35mm)
Dryden Theatre
George Eastman Museum 75th Anniversary! To celebrate the 75th anniversary of George Eastman Museum’s opening, The Dryden Theatre brings you one of our own film preservations starring Mary Pickford, the only movie star in attendance at the ribbon cutting in 1949.