Rediscover a Hollywood Pioneer!
The work of trailblazing silent film director/actor Francis Ford—who is also the older brother of legendary filmmaker John Ford—was nearly lost to history. Fortunately for film lovers, Radio-Television-Film Professor Kathy Fuller Seeley recently restored several of these lost silent films (with a new musical score!) in 2K on a new BluRay collection that she co-produced.
Enjoy three silent films from the collection along with Fuller Seeley’s short documentary about Ford’s career, “Francis Ford Film Pioneer” (9 min., 2024). Professor Fuller Seeley will introduce the films and field questions from the audience after the screening.
Ford’s films to be screened:
- The Post Telegrapher (24 min., 1912)
- Unmasked (11 min., 1917)
- The Craving (60 min., 1918)
REVIEWS
“Thanks to this embarrassment of riches, we’re a little closer to a full appreciation of an important, and too nearly forgotten, pioneer of American film.”
—J.B. Kaufman
“Mixing anti-war sentiment and a prohibition propaganda with flights of fancy and experimental special effects is an odd combination, but Francis Ford manages to pull it off and create the captivating and quite entertaining 1918 silent feature The Craving, newly released on Blu-ray from Undercrank Productions.”
—Phil Bailey, Ink19
Details
Start Date: November 13 @ 5:00pm
End Date: November 13 @ 7:00pm
Event Categories: Lecture Screening
Location: Auditorium DMC 2.106
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Target audience: Alumni , Faculty , General Public , Staff , Students