Free admission for seniors 62 and older
George Eastman House announced that its Senior Matinee series at the Dryden Theatre will kick off on Monday, March 2, at 1:30 p.m. with a screening of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938, 91 min., 35mm). The film will be preceded by The Sultan’s Jester (1930, 9 min., 35mm), an early Technicolor Vitaphone short that was recently restored by George Eastman House in collaboration with Warner Bros.
Admission for the Monday matinees is free for senior citizens 62 and older. All Senior Matinees will begin at 1:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. The series runs through October.
“Beginning this March, our senior matinee screenings will be fully incorporated into our regular film calendar,” said Jurij Meden, Curator of Film Exhibitions, George Eastman House. “Cinematic classics from the George Eastman House collection will be presented in 35mm, the way they were originally screened and were meant to be seen.”
The remaining March and April films include:
March 9: Follow Thru (Lloyd Corrigan and Laurence Schwab, 1930, 92 min.)
March 16: The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley, 1943, 90 min.)
March 23: Corn’s-A-Poppin’ (Robert Woodburn, 1955, 58 min.)
March 30: The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
April 6: The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
April 13: Tell Me Tonight (Anatole Litvak, 1932, 78 min.)
April 20: Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936, 101 min.)
For a full list of screenings, visit dryden.eastmanhouse.org. This series is made possible in part by the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation and the Monroe County Office for the Aging.