Sound and Silent Film: The Immersive Propaganda of Imagined Fronts
- Thu, Jun 13, 2024
- 7 pm - 9 pm PT
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Free, RSVP required
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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90036
In conjunction with Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media, this special film program explores the intermingling of mass media and the artistic imagination. Explore what it was like to experience propaganda films in the early twentieth century through a night of silent films and accompanying sound.
Made possible with the support of the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund and are supported in part by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, the Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
James Reese Europe conducting his band while troops disembark in New York City at the end of the war. Port of Disembarkation, New York Harbor [1919], Reel 2. Courtesy of the National Archives.
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund and are supported in part by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, the Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
James Reese Europe conducting his band while troops disembark in New York City at the end of the war. Port of Disembarkation, New York Harbor [1919], Reel 2. Courtesy of the National Archives.