Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival

Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival

Friday, Jul 26, 2024 at 7:30pm

  510-494-1411
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A three-day and night experience for those who love film and film making. In 2024, we are showcasing Women in Film, documentaries and locally-made vintage movies - some made more than 100 years ago. We will focus on film collectors and preserving cinematic trifles and treasures - oddities and classics! Film is NOT dead - Long live film! (even if we show some programs digitally because that is how they were created or because we need to show them in a non-nitrate format. All we can say is "It's all good!"

Schedule of Events

7:30 pm: Evening Film Presentation

(Doors open 7:00 pm)

The Love Goddesses

(1965, Walter Reade-Sterling Presentation)

Director Saul J. Turrell's exploration of sex in the movies. From the silent era and Clara Bow to Cinemascope and Marilyn Monroe, see how the movie industry's depiction of sex has changed through the decades. Told in a unique, immersive style combining voice over and film clips, The Love Goddesses is a rarely-screened, can't-miss film that encapsulates a unique time in film history.

Preceded by:

The Western Costume Company

(circa 1951, unknown studio)

This noteworthy business has been a landmark in Hollywood for decades. Not only has it been supplying "Western" costumes to movie producers, but costumes, armor, weapons, medals, furniture, and props of all kinds from all periods of history. We are shown through the various department of this huge. facility, and follow a beautiful and fancy costume from its inception on a designer's drawing-board through its assembly end eventual clothing of a model, along with a number of other unusual and beautiful costumes used not only by motion picture studios, but by theatrical and television producers as well.

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