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George Eastman Museum restoration project 
Murder in Harlem (1935) selected for 
screening at 2021 Cannes Film Festival

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Rochester, N.Y., July 06, 2021—
The George Eastman Museum announced that its recent restoration of Murder in Harlem (1935), a rare film directed by Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951), has been selected to be screened in the Cannes Classic series at the 74th Annual Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) in France. The festival will be held from Tuesday, July 6, through Saturday, July 17, 2021. The Eastman Museum collaborated with the Cineteca di Bologna, in Italy, to preserve the film. Murder in Harlem is among a group of motion pictures referred to as “race films,” a term used to refer to films with Black casts created for Black

Unmasked

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00:00 Introduction by Peter Bagrov, Senior Curator, Moving Image Department, George Eastman Museum 05:35 Unmasked Unmasked (US 1917) Writers and Directors: Grace Cunard, Francis Ford (?) Cast: Grace Cunard (The Woman), Francis Ford (The Man), Edgar Keller (1st Detective), Harry Schumm (2nd Detective) Production company: Rex Motion Picture Company Distribution company: Universal Film Manufacturing Company Release date: 24 May 1917 Sound: silent Color: b/w; replication of original tinting using Desmet color injection Original length (in feet): unknown Original length (in reels): 1 Surviving

Web Accessibility Statement

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Guests at the Presentation of Kodacolor at the Home of Mr. George Eastman, Rochester, N.Y.

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00:00 Introduction by Kathleen Connor, Curator, George Eastman Legacy Collection 01:56 Guests at the Presentation of Kodacolor at the Home of Mr. George Eastman, Rochester, N.Y. Guests at the Presentation of Kodacolor at the Home of Mr. George Eastman, Rochester, N.Y. (US 1928) Filmmaker: Unidentified Participants: Appearances by George Eastman, Thomas A. Edison, Gen. John J. Pershing, J. J. Bausch, Adolph Ochs, J. E. Sloane, Dr. C. E. K. Mees, Michael Pupin, Sir James Irvine, Ogden Reid Production company: Eastman Kodak Company Release date: 30 July 1928 Original format: 35mm and 16mm Sound

George Eastman Greeting SMPE Meeting

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00:00 Introduction by Kathleen Connor, Curator, George Eastman Legacy Collection 00:49 [George Eastman Greeting the SMPE Meeting] George Eastman Greeting SMPE Meeting (US 1930) Filmmaker: Unidentified Participants: George Eastman Production company: Eastman Kodak Company Release date: 7 May 1930 Original format: 35mm Sound: variable density Color: b/w Length (in feet): 105 ft. Length (in reels): 1 Running time: 48 sec. Preserved by Film Technology Digitized by Eastman Film Preservation Services This film is the only known footage of George Eastman speaking. He was invited to attend and give

Within Our Gates

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Race Films In this classic silent film, maverick African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux tackles the upheaval of Reconstruction after the American Civil War. Jasper Landry (William Stark), a Black sharecropper, is framed for the murder of a wealthy white planter and finds himself on the run from a lynch mob.

Aparajito

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The Apu Trilogy The middle section of the Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy is separated into two parts: a 10-year-old Apu (Pinaki Sengupta) living by the Ganges with his family, and a teenage Apu (Smaran Ghosal) finding success in his studies and earning a scholarship to study in Kolkata.

still from Aparajito