Orson Welles’s 1938 film “Too Much Johnson,” recovered by George Eastman Museum, is a hybrid of silent film and live performance.
Nitrate Film
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Film recap: The 2017 Nitrate Picture Show
The George Eastman Museum last weekend hosted the third Nitrate Picture Show, its annual “festival of film preservation” paying tribute to the medium’s notoriously combustible early format. The weekend’s events included tours of the Eastman Museum’s vaults and projection booths, lectures from film scholars Hisashi Okajima and Alexander Horwath, workshops, and demonstrations, all centered on […]
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This festival is dangerous
If you’re not a cinema history buff, it’s entirely possible that you’re unfamiliar with nitrate film. If you’ve heard of it at all, you’re probably most aware of the format’s notorious tendency to catch fire and burn down movie theaters. And over the years, nitrate’s volatile reputation has only grown, thanks to memorable scenes of […]
