Discover Missouri's cinematic past with rare archival films, including footage along Route 66 from SHSMO's Rolla Research Center, which holds the papers of Rowe Carney Jr., one of the inventors of the rotoscope, a single projection system that was a precursor to the large format Imax films.
On Monday, March 9, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Springfield-Greene County library, 4653 South Campbell Avenue, Missouri State University film professor Tanya Goldman and student Adrianna Avila-Wilkins will spotlight films made close to home. Highlights include home movies from Springfield and the Ozarks, amateur footage along Route 66 shot using the camera with the new Rotoscope invention, the Bunion Derby and New Madrid Motion Picture Collection at SHSMO Rolla Research Center, Ozarks Amateur Film Collection at SHSMO's Springfield Research Center, and "The Maid of McMillan" (1914) from St. Louis - the oldest known film made by college students, recently added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Films are courtesy of the State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri State University, Washington University in St. Louis the Chicago Film Archives.
The presentation is free and open to the public.