The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY will screen Houdini's Haldane of the Secret Service with live music by Donald Sosin on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. The screening is part of the opening day events for their new retrospective, Magicians on Screen.
This is a new 35mm preservation print of Haldane provided by George Eastman House, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The screening will also feature a 7 minute short by video artist Terese Svoboda, The Talking Tea Kettle, which explores Houdini's and David P. Abbott’s battles against fraudulent mediums.
Preceding the screening will be a live magic show by Ben Robinson (4:30pm) and a presentation by Matthew Solomon on "Early Film and Magic" (3:00). Solomon is the author of the excellent Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century.
Magicians on Screen runs through January 1, 2012. You can see the full line-up of screenings and lectures at the The Museum of the Moving Image website.
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