October 25, 2015, marks the 100th birthday of James Card, the museum’s first curator of motion pictures. Card’s role in building the moving image collection at the Eastman Museum and in furthering the cause for film preservation worldwide is without equal. This exhibition celebrates Card’s roles as collector, educator, and showman, through photographs, film clips, and his own writings about his passion for film and sharing it with the public.

An extensive series in the Dryden Theatre showcases films that influenced Card as a collector and those that would not exist today had it not been for...