Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library November 3, 2009

Film: Packing a Suitcase (1950s) produced by Shell Oil, Beautiful Japan (1918) produced by Benjamin Brodsky, home movies from the Schlesinger Library collection including travel footage from Nanking, China (1930s), Morocco (1976), and the Alford Lake Camp in Maine (1939).

Comments/description: In conjunction with our Travel Diaries exhibit, Packing a Suitcase informs the female traveler on the proper way to pack a tidy suitcase; Beautiful Japan works like a moving picture brochure; and selections from home movies in the Schlesinger collections bring China, Morocco, and the antics of young campers in rural Maine to the “big” screen.

Guest commentators: A discussion with Jeremy Blatter, PhD candidate History of Science and Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and Melissa Dollman, Audiovisual Cataloger, Schlesinger Library, will follow the film.

*Please note the change from our usual screening day of Wednesday.