MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
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Ernie Gehr, The Rat Eater, Courtesy the artist and Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Friday Nov 30, 2007 (7pm)
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (2pm)
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- Price
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$10
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Note: Film tickets can be purchased in person the same day of the screening. A limited number of tickets is available in advance for an additional $1.50 service charge.
Years before the invention of the moving picture, Victorians entertained themselves with the magic lantern, an archaic slide projector that functioned as a kind of big-screen flipbook. Just as the Christmas blockbusters begin to hit theaters, David Francis, a film expert and a magic-lantern aficionado, and Joss Marsh, a professor of Victorian studies, perform a different kind of blockbuster with their live holiday show at the MoMA. The program, which includes a lantern-slide telling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and the 1901 lantern-inspired film, Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost, is a little ghost of Christmas past brought to the present.
