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A Festival of Film Conservation to showcase vintage 35mm nitrate prints at the historic @DrydenTheatre @EastmanMuseum, June 2-5, 2022 #nitrateshow2022

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Wishing you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving, from Carmel Myers and the Nitrate Picture Show!

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For our last post in our series of Hollywood hobbies, we give you distinguished actor Hobart Bosworth posing at the easel in his home artist's studio. Photo by W.F. Seely. #HollywoodHobbies

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Today is the birthday of Betty Bronson, the first actor to portray Peter Pan on screen. Photo by Nelson Evans.

PETER PAN (1924), Eastman Museum, Moving Image Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections

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Knitting was a very common hobby while waiting on set between filming. These dancers are hard at work on their argyle socks before being called to the stage for a musical number in ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (1945) #HollywoodHobbies

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We are shocked! Shocked! With joy, that is, that today is the birthday of the great Claude Rains!

Claude Rains in CASABLANCA (1942), Eastman Museum, Moving Image Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections

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Pola Negri was an accomplished sculptress and some of her work even appeared in her film THE CHARMER (1925). #HollywoodHobbies

Photo by Eugene Robert Richee, Eastman Museum, Moving Image Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections

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Today is National Sandwich Day! And here's Barbara Stanwyck looking fabulous while eating a sandwich on the set of THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (1947)!

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This month we're sharing photos of stars enjoying their hobbies, starting with Gary Cooper taking a break from filming THE FOUNTAINHEAD (1949) to shoot some photos around the Warner Bros. lot. #HollywoodHobbies

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Happy Halloween from the Nitrate Picture Show!

Louis Armstrong and Maxine Sullivan in GOING PLACES (1938), Eastman Museum, Moving Image Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections

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Today is World Day for Audio-Visual Heritage! Check out some of the films we've preserved from our archive, available here online: https://t.co/3YWhXxkAs7

Frame capture from HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWS (US 1938), Eastman Museum, Moving Image Collection

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Our Technicolor Archives include records of the research scientists developing the company's color processes. This entry from Leonard Troland's 1926 lab notebook describes a color test conducted on BEN HUR. #ArchivesMonth

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Conrad Veidt's portrayal of Gwynplaine (a character whose smile was carved into his face) in THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) was the inspiration for comic book villain The Joker. Come see it at the Dryden Oct. 25! #Halloween

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The Eastman Museum has the research notebooks of actress and writer Louise Brooks from when she was living in Rochester NY. In this excerpt from 1957, Brooks gives her impressions of Greta Garbo upon seeing her in her first sound film ANNA CHRISTIE (1930). #ArchivesMonth

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On the lighter side of Halloween, here is the cast of ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) posing in the graveyard set with director Frank Capra. #Halloween

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This scrapbook constructed by an avid moviegoer in the late 1920s is a fascinating and interactive record of movie-going, movie criticism, and fandom, all in one! A large silver star was "Especially Good"! #ArchivesMonth

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For Indigenous Peoples' Day we are honoring Will Rogers, home-spun humorist of stage and screen, and of Cherokee descent. In 1928, the first Native American hospital was built near his home town of Claremore, Oklahoma, owing to the power of Rogers' name and his national appeal.

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October also means it's time to get into the Halloween spirit! This eerie graveyard shot from THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) ought to do the trick! Or treat?! #Halloween

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October is Archives Month! And we're so excited to show you rare items from our archives, starting with two pages from Leo Hurwitz's storyboard for NATIVE LAND (1948). #ArchivesMonth

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Today is National Silent Movie Day! What will you be watching to celebrate your love of silent film? https://t.co/qlnsUgTFFR

Fay Wray and Erich von Stroheim in THE WEDDING MARCH (1928), Eastman Museum, Moving Image Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections

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Happy 88th birthday to Claude Jarman Jr., who won the role of Jody in THE YEARLING (1946) during a nationwide talent search. He was awarded the Oscar for best juvenile actor of 1946 for the role.

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