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Leave Her to Heaven (1945) We have received so many suggestions
The Fallen Idol (1948) and ideas for future versions of the festival
that it will take us many years to use them
Highlights of the festival included a recre- all. Still, we can say that the success of the
ation of the Magnascope presentation of first year has prompted us to announce
the final reel of PORTRAIT OF JENNIE, that the 2016 edition of The Nitrate Pic-
and THE FALLEN IDOL, which was our ture Show will take place on April 29 -
"Blind Date with Nitrate," a title that was May 1 at the historic Dryden Theatre. For
held back until the moment it hit the all of you that weren't able to make it this
screen. year, we hope that you'll be able to ar-
range it in 2016. And for all of you that
William Wellman, Jr. attended the festival attended the first festival, thank you for
and introduced A STAR IS BORN on making it such a success, and we hope to
Thursday night as well as NOTHING SA- have you back again.
CRED on Saturday afternoon. He signed
Jared Case
copies of his new book Wild Bill Wellman:
Head of Collection Information, Research,
Hollywood Rebel after each show. Friday and Access, Moving Image Department.
afternoon we were pleased to host Roger Executive Director, The Nitrate Picture
Show.
Smither, David Bordwell, and Kevin
Brownlow for lectures about nitrate film
and its era, which were also followed by
book signings.

One of the most popular events of the
weekend (the tickets sold out the first
weekend they were offered) was our work-
shops on How to Make Nitrate Film.
George Eastman House's Photographic
Process Historian Marc Osterman and
Historic Process Specialist Nick Brandreth
gave three groups of attendees the
chance to see, on a small scale, how
Source: Internet
nitrate film is mixed and cast, and how
emulsion is applied to the film. Submitted by: Juergen Kellermann
More Reading: www.georgeeastmanhouse.org

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