Past Film Screenings

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Silent Magic: Trick Films and Special Effects, 1895-1912

October 20, 2013

Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
Austin, TX

Astounding 100-year-old special effects epics by Georges Méliès, Edwin S. Porter, Segundo de Chomón, W.R. Booth, and others.

Rare 16mm prints shown with musical selections both traditional and unusual (jazz, world music, avant garde).

(An expanded edition was presented in 2014 in Seattle.)

A still from the film THE RED SPECTRE (1906) by Segundo de Chomon