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Blind Date with Nitrate

I wanted to give you a brief report on the http://feminaridens.club/2015/05/05/nitr
first Nitrate Picture Show, held May 1-3 in ate-hauntings
the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman
House. The festival was a great success. The full screening schedule was revealed
only on the morning of the first day of the
We screened 10 features and two shorts festival, which allowed us to focus discus-
across four days, invited world-renowned sion on the nitrate experience rather than
scholars and archivists to talk about ni- on the film titles themselves. The audi-
trate film, demonstrated how nitrate film is ence was not disappointed with the pro-
made, and celebrated this rare opportunity gram, which included:
with hundreds of fellow film lovers. It was
truly rewarding to see and hear the audi- A Star is Born (1937)
ence reaction to the films, and I encourage Casablanca (1942)
you to read some of the detailed accounts Two shorts from Norway: Et mesterstykke
put out on the web: av Tiedemann (1937) and Blue Master: en
harmoni (1938)
http://www.hammertonail.com/film- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
festivals/the-first-annual-nitrate-pict- Samson and Delilah (1949)
ureshow-a-review Les Maudits (1947)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
http://sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com/201 Portrait of Jennie (1948)
5/05/the-nitrate-picture-show.html Black Narcissus (1948)

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