This week’s mix of virtual and in-person events includes social justice talks & town halls, film screenings, and a Pride march & rally for BLM.
Nitrate Picture Show
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Eastman Museum cancels 2020 Nitrate Picture Show
The 2020 Nitrate Picture Show is yet another cultural casualty of COVID-19. Eastman Museum announced Wednesday that the 6th Nitrate Picture Show, scheduled for June 4-7, has been postponed to June 3-6, 2021.
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Projecting the Nitrate Picture Show
Eastman Museum’s projectionists discuss the technical art of screening notoriously combustible nitrate films.
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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 […]
