[SustainableTompkins] A History of Ithaca Moviemaking, during Ithaca Festival

[Anthony Ingraham]

http://www.tcpl.org/news/2007/05/history-of-ithaca-moviemaking.html
Saturday, June 02, 2007
A History of Ithaca Moviemaking 
June 2, 2007 in TheTompkins County Public Library’s Borg Warner Community Room
1 p.m.  2:15 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.- 3:45 p.m.

The Ithaca Festival has teamed up with local organization Ithaca-Made Movies to present classic Wharton Studio silent films. A Saturday afternoon event is planned for those who would like to learn more about Ithaca’s moviemaking history. View the flyer.

A radio script by Jack Foley "A Sonnet," with Harry Fox will be featured using movie clips of Harry Fox selected from the Beatrice Fairfax series. Fox will be heard singing a song entitled I’m Always Chasing Rainbows.

Eric Stedman from the Serial Squadron, a group dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the lost form of the movie serial, will speak about the work done on the Beatrice Fairfax Series that he has prepared for the evening event.

A locally produced music video "Hollywood On Cayuga" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUifHTUDQ0Q) will be shown along with several other music videos which feature Pearl White and Irene Castle.

Two episodes of the 1916 Ithaca-made serial film BEATRICE FAIRFAX will have a free screening on Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 8:00 pm at the historic State Theater in downtown Ithaca, as part of the 30th Annual Ithaca Festival.

“The State Theater is Ithaca’s only existing original movie house," said Ithaca Festival Executive Director Vicki Kysar. and it is the perfect setting to see the extraordinary movies made in Ithaca, the way audiences might have seen them
in 1916!

Live music for the evening event will be provided by world-renowned silent film keyboard accompanist Donald Sosin, and Joanna Seaton will sing the 1915 hit "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do."

So don’t miss these two free Ithaca Festival 2007 events on Saturday June 2nd. This years festival theme is reflection and Ithaca Silent films will provide just such a reflection. Refreshments will be provided by co-sponsors Ithaca Bakery and Napoli Pizzeria at the afternoon