May 13, 2021: “Film Firsts and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair: Part I” (online)

Chicago Movie Tours will offer two free "mini matinee" online lectures on Facebook. The first, on Thursday, May 13 at 9:30 AM is "Film Firsts and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Part I." The presentation will uncover what human eyesight, galloping horses, and a missed Chicago deadline have in common. The second presentation, on Thursday, May 20 at 9:30 AM, is "Film Firsts and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Part II" which promises to celebrate the fathers of modern [...]

By |2022-03-05T11:03:55-06:00May 3rd, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: , |0 Comments
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“The Current War” offers only a dimly lit view of the 1893 World’s Fair

The 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago shines on the big screen, if only for a few minutes. The Current War (2017, released 2019) tells the story of the rancorous rivalry between inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), who adamantly championed direct current (DC) technologies to electrify and illuminate American cities, and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), who banked on alternating current (AC). The legendary “war of the currents” has these titans of the electrical industry setting their sights on powering the Columbian [...]

By |2023-12-20T13:47:10-06:00October 30th, 2019|Categories: NEWS, VIDEO|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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