Event

Murder, Mayhem, Mystery: Birth of Motion Pictures

Thursday, July 27, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Radmacher Meeting Room

Track the history of motion pictures from its first tenuous steps through today with film enthusiast Craig Pierce.

Travel back 120 years to the birth of motion pictures during the Industrial Revolution. It's a tale filled with international intrigue, mechanical marvels, fabulous flops, and a bit of murder and mystery, too. See rare clips of the earliest motion pictures and learn how such inventors as Edison and the Lumiere Brothers established the path that leads to today's dazzling blockbusters.

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