Public Program, Conversation
Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film
Martha McNamara, Wellesley College, and Karan Sheldon, Northeast Historic Film
$10 per person fee (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members or EBT cardholders).
$10 per person fee (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members or EBT cardholders).
Monday, January 29, 2018, 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Registration required at a cost
The term “amateur film” conjures visions of shaky, out-of-focus images depicting family vacations and kids’ birthday
parties, but early twentieth-century amateur filmmaking produced irreplaceable records of people’s lives and beloved places. This volume of essays, interprets a wide variety of visually expressive amateur films made in New England. Martha McNamara and Karan Sheldon will highlight three examples: the comedies of landscape architect Sidney N. Shurcliff, depictions of pastoral family life by Elizabeth Woodman Wright, and the chronicles of Anna B. Harris, an African American resident of Manchester, Vermont.
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.