As part of the Under the Dome 2016 MIT Open House in celebration of a Century in Cambridge, the MIT History Faculty and MIT Music and Theater Arts present
Silent Film in 1916: Screening, Live Music, and Roundtable
What was the impact of World War I in Cambridge in 1916?
What were the movies like when MIT moved across the Charles?
Come to a screening of three silent films from the 1910s, with live piano accompaniment by MIT Senior Lecturer in Music Martin Marks.
After the screenings, Martin Marks will participate in a roundtable discussion of the films with MIT historians Chris Capozzola, Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Hiromu Nagahara and Tanalis Padilla.
