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NEWS | | EVENTS | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 Director’s Note

Museum Welcomes Open Face

From the inception of our Visitor Center of the best places to eat in Rochester. The luncheonette attracted a loyal following Project, we planned to transform the One of the suggestions was Open Face, among a diverse clientele. Jared continued experience of eating in the café at the an unassuming and perennially hip sandwich to invent new dishes, while mindful not to Museum. The new café shop in the South Wedge. It immediately deprive customers of their longtime favorites. is located near the new main entrance became my favorite place for lunch, but Despite thirteen years of success, Jared and at the heart of the museum complex, eating there remained an infrequent treat. closed Open Face in 2017 to pursue other within the area formerly occupied by the I ate almost every workday at the museum’s interests. museum shop. In the Palm House, the café—where the team led by Mary Scholl Several months ago, I approached Jared limestone columns have been freed from (who retired in early 2020) provided about reviving his vision for Open Face the (not original) narrow brick walls that consistently good food, friendly service, in the beautiful new café space at the had surrounded them, allowing sunlight and irresistible convenience. Eastman Museum. We are most fortunate to stream into the main café space. With Open Face Sandwich Eatery, on South that our proposed collaboration captured its additional seating in the Palm House, Avenue, was founded by Jared Valentine his imagination. the café will have the capacity for more and a partner in 2004, when the South than 70 people. At the museum, Open Face redux offers Wedge still had many empty storefronts. similar fare. The soups are consistently One of my greatest pleasures in life comes Without culinary training, Jared spent excellent. There are numerous vegan or from eating. When I took the position as a year freely creating and then carefully vegetarian sandwiches, such as corn mash, director of the refining a variety of signature sandwiches, chickpea, soft brie, and toasted Havarti. in October 2012, I sought recommendations soups, salads, savory sides, and desserts.

Open Face at Eastman Museum is now open for takeout and curbside pickup. Pictured: Creative director and 2 manager Jared Valentine (center), with Pauline Coles and lead café associate Heather Southern (left and right).

GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 THANK YOU TO OUR JANUARY/FEBRUARY PROGRAM SUPPORTERS

The chicken salad and maple turkey For information on how you or your business can be a part of all that the George Eastman Museum offers, sandwiches are available closed face or as contact Lisa Ann Seischab at (585) 327-4942 or [email protected]. open-face melts. The sides—ginger carrots, pickled beets, a simple salad with a bright ginger dressing, and sublime baguette chips— inspire cravings. Jared’s oversized cookies and sandwich cookies, Cheesy Eddie’s carrot cake, and Fern vegan jam bars each offer a welcome indulgence. We continue to serve Royal Café gelato, which has long been a favorite at the museum’s café, and are now featuring New City coffee.

Currently, Open Face is offering its full menu for takeout or curbside pickup. (Unfortunately, at press time, we are not able to accommodate diners in our café space because of COVID-19 restrictions.) I have been truly thrilled to be able to take food from Open Face back to my desk for lunch or back to my home for dinner. Ample parking is convenient to our new entrance and the café, and going to Open Face does not require museum admission. I heartily recommend that you give Open Face takeout a try. Charina Endowment Fund Susan and Nathan Robfogel Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation The Rohauer Collection Foundation Jared Valentine is the creative director and Jacques and Dawn Lipson Visiting Rubens Family Foundation manager of Open Face at Eastman Museum. Artist Fund Save America’s Treasures grant program, The Louis B. Mayer Foundation funded by the Historic Preservation Fund Heather Southern is the lead café associate. State Office of Parks, Recreation as administered by the , They are assisted by Pauline Coles. Please and Historic Preservation Department of the Interior join us in welcoming them to the George The Packard Humanities Institute Thomas N. Tischer, PhD Eastman Museum team.

Bruce Barnes, PhD Ron and Donna Fielding Director

OPEN FACE AT EASTMAN MUSEUM TAKEOUT NOW AVAILABLE Open Face is now available for takeout The George Eastman Museum is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor and curbside pickup only. Order in Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the advance by calling (585) 327‑4940 or Humanities, and the County of Monroe, and with private contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations. Thank you. in person at the café (use the Thomas Tischer Visitor Center entrance). Hours and sample menu are available ON THE COVER (American, b. 1935), Rockland 2, 1979, gelatin silver print, 16 × 13½ in., courtesy at eastman.org/openface. of the artist. © Carl Chiarenza. On view beginning February 5 in Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown—see page 6 for details.

The George Eastman Museum bulletin is published six times a year. © 2021 George Eastman Museum. 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-2298. 3 All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. ISSN: 1055-3886. Please direct comments to [email protected]. Exhibition

William Kentridge: Second-hand Reading (2013)

A lyrical animated video by acclaimed artist Commenting on this work, Kentridge digital-born works to the museum. The William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955), describes a book “as a kind of material gift comprised both original negatives Second-hand Reading (2013) is now on view depiction of one’s head, of the number of and positive prints covering Kentridge’s at the George Eastman Museum. thoughts that can zoom past, like the phrases entire career as a filmmaker, as well as in a dictionary or encyclopedia.” all of the master elements of his works in Kentridge is best known for his animated electronic and digital media. As the home films made with his groundbreaking The soundtrack is a traditional funeral hymn of the definitive collection and archive of technique of photographing a succession of in Sesotho language performed by composer Kentridge’s time-based works, the George charcoal drawings rendered on a single sheet Neo Muyanga in response to the 2012 police Eastman Museum is the leading resource of paper. The seven-minute Second-hand massacre of 34 striking mine workers at for the appreciation and study of this Reading transforms two publications—a 1914 Marikana, South Africa. The following is a extraordinary body of work. edition of Cassell’s Cyclopædia of Mechanics translation of the lyrics into English: with pages inserted from a 1936 publication When the rain comes again / in torrents Second-hand Reading is on view through of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary— When it rains / please remember me January 31, on a loop in the Multipurpose Hall. into a flip-book background. Rendered in See how thirsty / and wretched I am charcoal, ink, and watercolor, the artist’s Please permit some drops / to fall ruminations are explored through a selection And wet me / a little too of recurring figures, poetic aphorisms, and landscapes traversed by Kentridge’s own In 2015, William Kentridge donated the restlessly pacing form. complete set of his films, videos, and

Second-hand Reading (William Kentridge, South Africa 2013, 7 min., HD video), George Eastman Museum, 4 gift of William Kentridge. © William Kentridge

GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 Seasonal Display

Dutch Connection­—In Person & Online

Get an early peek at spring this February In addition to regular Wednesday–Sunday ABOUT DUTCH CONNECTION at the museum’s annual Dutch Connection hours, the museum will be open on Tuesdays Between 1905 and 1932, George Eastman floral display. A welcome treat in the midst from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the run of ordered tens of thousands of bulbs from Holland of winter, the show features thousands of Dutch Connection. We will also extend every year. The orders were mostly for tulips, colorful tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, amaryllis, our hours until 7 p.m. on three Thursdays, narcissus, and hyacinths for indoor forcing, and freesias, and spring annuals filling areas of February 11, 18, and 25. Find information to tulips for outside beds. Eastman’s annual bulb George Eastman’s historic mansion. help you plan your visit at eastman.org/visit. orders were inspired by the flower fields he saw while bicycling through the countryside during TICKETS & MUSEUM HOURS ONLINE OFFERINGS a trip to Holland in 1895. The present-day display is inspired by Eastman’s original orders This year, nonmembers are required to Join us for a virtual talk and tour with placed with Dutch bulb companies. purchase admission tickets in advance. Landscape Manager Dan Bellavia on Tickets can be purchased online at any point February 17 (see p. 9 for details). prior to visiting. Dutch Connection is on display Also available online are downloadable February 5–28 throughout the historic Museum members and other guests receiving activities for kids to try at home, an audio mansion. Generously supported by Gerald free admission do not need to purchase introduction, and a virtual 360-degree tour and Karen Kral. In-kind support provided tickets in advance—just show your member for those unable to see the show in person— by Monroe County Parks Department and card, military ID, or SNAP/EBT card at the or to share with friends and family from afar. Palomaki Farms Inc. Lipson Welcome Center when you arrive. See eastman.org/DutchConnection.

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JAN/FEB 2021 | GEM Exhibition

Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown

At the heart of Carl Chiarenza’s work is an This retrospective exhibition spans the exploration of the very nature of . Rochester-based artist’s entire career, MEMBERS Throughout his career, Chiarenza (American, beginning with early he made b. 1935) has demonstrated that photographs as a high school student in Rochester and can provide much more than just documentary concluding with a large selection of his evidence. Whether photographing the most recent work in collage. It highlights his postindustrial landscape or torn-up scraps of accomplishments not only as a photographer, paper, Chiarenza uses the to transform but also as a longtime professor of art his subjects into new, formally sophisticated and history, a renowned critic, and an award- psychologically complex images. His photographs winning biographer. The exhibition gives often bear little resemblance to their actual visitors the opportunity to follow the subjects and instead suggest mysterious worlds continuities and ruptures in Chiarenza’s that viewers are invited to explore. artistic journey as his career enters its EXHIBITION CATALOGUE seventh decade. In this way, Chiarenza makes photographs Published by the Eastman Museum that are evocative and introspective, and that and available in the Museum Shop. function more like music or poetry than the Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown GEM members receive a special documentary medium we too often expect is on view February 5–June 20, in the main 25% discount! photography to be. galleries. $15 for members (regularly $20)

5 11 Carl Chiarenza (American, b. 1935), Untitled 280, 1990, gelatin silver print, 14 ⁄8 × 18 ⁄16 in., George Eastman 6 Museum, gift of the artist in honor of the museum’s curators, directors, and staff members during his lifetime. © Carl Chiarenza GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 Exhibition

Stacey Steers: Night Reels

Night Reels is a multidisciplinary body of lifted from her original films and recast in process, combined with an exquisite mastery work by the artist Stacey Steers (American, a disquieting domestic phantasy. In a small of the craft of animation results in each b. 1954). Blending 2D paper collage, house tucked away in a dark and twisted taking a minimum of five years to produce. animation, and mixed-media sculpture, Steers forest, Gish’s character sets about her chores While Steers’s films can be fully enjoyed pays homage to the history of moving images while a series of unpredictable events unfold when seen projected on a large screen, they while inventing entirely original cinematic around her. In Edge of Alchemy (2017), silent take on new life when viewed within her works that transport familiar characters and film icons Janet Gaynor and Mary Pickford’s collaboratively fabricated sculptural works. imagery into surreal nocturnal dreamscapes. images are brought together to perform in a Each captivating 3D object has been designed surprising new twist on the Frankenstein story. The works on display begin with Phantom as a small-scale theater in which to experience Canyon (2006), a “true story” that follows Each frame in Steers’s films is first composed these masterful films in a gallery setting. human figures selected from Eadweard as intricate paper collages assembled from Muybridge’s pre-cinema motion studies as fragments of 19th-century printed engravings Stacey Steers: Night Reels is on view they encounter groups of insects, fish, bats, and book illustrations. Steers then photographs February 5–June 6, 2021, with mixed media and other strange creatures of the night. each collage onto 35mm motion picture film. sculptures and collages on view in the Working with extraordinary precision, she The second work, Night Hunter (2011), Project Gallery and a program of the moving develops approximately eight distinct collages features a mesmerizing performance from image works on continuous display in the for every second of screen time. This meticulous silent cinema star , who has been multipurpose hall.

Stacey Steers (American, b. 1954), Collage from Edge of Alchemy (US 2017, 35mm to 4K video, 19 min.), mixed media on paper, 4 × 5½ in., lent by the artist and Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado. © Stacey Steers 7

JAN/FEB 2021 | GEM News

The George Eastman Museum Board of community, Bassett is also a member of Board of Trustees Trustees is pleased to welcome Dennis the Rochester Police Foundation board. He Welcomes Bassett as its newest member, as he began was previously affiliated with the boards of his term on October 8, 2020. the Rochester Area Community Foundation, Monroe Community Foundation, American New Member Bassett is the director of customer operations Heart Association, and Western Regional Off- for Ortho Clinical Diagnostics in Rochester. Track Betting. Dennis Bassett This role follows his many years in leadership positions at Bausch & Lomb, including vice Originally from Gary, Indiana, Dennis president of field sales and vice president of Bassett is a graduate of Knoxville College in sales development and customer relations. Tennessee. He resides in Rochester with his wife, Mary. Committed to supporting and advancing Rochester’s cultural organizations, Bassett is a member of the ’s board of trustees and previously served as its chair. An active volunteer in the Rochester

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GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 Special Projects

Recap: NEH CARES Grant

In July 2020, the George Eastman Museum grant-funded initiatives had not previously audiences, take some risks, and use what we was awarded a National Endowment for the been as involved with digital engagement. learned to create better programs in the future. Humanities: NEH CARES grant, which provided As part of the grant, we have created: We have learned a lot from this project, from us with funds to support the participation all of the different ways you can use Zoom of seventeen staff members in sustaining, • 18 webinars and online programs to what type of video content our audiences expanding, and institutionalizing the museum’s • 5 Magic videos demystifying prefer. It’s been an exciting experiment, and digital programs. Since March, when the photographic processes we are looking forward to continuing to grow New York State on PAUSE plan was put in • 5 virtual tours many of these programs over the next year. place, the museum had been increasingly • 5 audio tours using digital tools to reach our communities: As we move forward, we’d love to hear what • 18 introductions to recorded interviews staff members were making short iPhone kinds of virtual programs you’d like to see from the Silver Voices project videos at home, and we were quickly crafting from us. To fill out our survey and to see virtual versions of our exhibitions. • 18 digitized films romf the collection, everything we produced as part of this grant, 12 of which have video introductions visit eastman.org/NEHCARES. The NEH CARES grant helped us expand our • 40 Dryden Theatre Recommends videos online programming and presence—both improving the quality and increasing the As we’ve produced, edited, and promoted these This project has been made possible in part by frequency. The grant also gave staff across the various programs, we’ve been tracking the the National Endowment for the Humanities: museum the flexibility to be creative and try response from our communities worldwide. The NEH CARES. Any views, findings, conclusions, different methods of online engagement. And goal of this grant was to explore some of the or recommendations expressed in this project, it provided new opportunities for collaboration various ways we could reach current and new do not necessarily represent those of the among staff: many of the staff working on the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In one of the new Darkroom Magic videos, Historic Process Specialist Nick Brandreth shows how to create photographs using salt—the earliest silver-based photographic technique. 9

JAN/FEB 2021 | GEM On View

One Hundred Years Ago: George Eastman in 1921

An annual display in the historic mansion provides a glimpse of George Eastman’s life and work one hundred years ago. The new selection of objects detail the goings on in 1921, including the settlement of the long-running lawsuit between the US government and and the company’s introduction of the campaign that would eventually become Kodak Picture Spots.

Eastman also spent the year focused on Rochester, diving into the local government and economy, running a tonsil clinic for area children, and continuing construction on the , which would finally open in 1922.

See original objects from the collection related to these and other aspects of Eastman’s life in 1921, on view through the year in the Sitting Room.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS AT THE EASTMAN MUSEUM

William Kentridge: Second-hand Reading Gallery Through January 31, 2021, Sponsored in part by ESL Federal Credit Union. PLEASE NOTE Multipurpose Hall Through March 21 In an effort to be responsive to See article, p. 4. The current installation of photographs shifting circumstances and health commemorates the centennial of the 19th NEW! and safety guidelines, we may need Amendment’s ratification. The display Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown to make changes to our offerings examines how photography has portrayed, and February 5–June 20, Main Galleries after the bulletin is printed. fundamentally shaped, perceptions of women See article, p. 6. and feminist movements since the mid-1800s. Please check the website and NEW! sign up for e-news for up-to-date From the Stacey Steers: Night Reels information about exhibitions, to the Revolutionary Kodak February 5–June 6, Project Gallery programs, museum hours, and more. Second floor, Mansion & Multipurpose Hall Program dates and times are subject Making Photographs: The First 50 Years See article, p. 7. to change, and new programs may describes , wet plate, and dry be added. NEW! plate photography, and The Revolutionary One Hundred Years Ago: Kodak traces the early years of this Thank you for your understanding George Eastman in 1921 important camera. Please note the camera and continued support. Opens February 5, Sitting Room obscura is closed as a safety measure. See highlight above.

Nahum Ellan Luboshez (American, b. Russia, 1869-1925), George Eastman, 1921, gelatin silver print, 10 George Eastman Museum, gift of the .

GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 Programs

MEMBERS

From Eastman’s Kitchen to Yours

Friday, January 15, 1 p.m. Just for members! See details below.

Not a member? Join or renew today at eastman.org/membership and enjoy access to this event and other exclusive member benefits!

WEBINARS & ONLINE PROGRAMS EXHIBITION TALK happen, including the history and inspiration Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown behind the yearly event, and the program will The following are virtual events. Registration with Guest Curator William Green include a guided video tour of the display. is required: visit eastman.org/webinars. Friday, February 12, 1 p.m. Free to members, $10 nonmembers. MEMBERS-ONLY PROGRAM The retrospective exhibition Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown spans the From Eastman’s Kitchen to Yours IN-PERSON EVENTS Friday, January 15, 1 p.m. artist’s entire career, beginning with early Members are invited to join us for an afternoon photographs he made as a high school Dutch Connection in the kitchen with George Eastman. Our team student in Rochester and concluding with February 5–28, Historic Mansion will make a couple of sweet and savory recipes a large selection of his most recent work in A welcome treat in the midst of winter, the from Eastman’s 1918 camp cookbook, and you collage. Join us for an in depth look at the show features thousands of colorful tulips, can even bake along with us (see the event exhibition and Chiarenza’s work with guest hyacinths, daffodils, amaryllis, freesias, listing at eastman.org/webinars for everything curator William Green in this live virtual and spring annuals filling areas of George you’ll need). While our food bakes, Legacy program. Free to members, $5 nonmembers. Eastman’s historic mansion. Advance tickets Curator Kathy Connor will share stories and required for nonmembers: eastman.org/tickets. TALK & TOUR answer questions about Eastman’s favorite Members and others receiving free admission Behind the Scenes of Dutch Connection recipes and cooking habits. Members only (free). (SNAP/EBT cardholders and active-duty Wednesday, February 17, 1 p.m. Registration required—details will be shared military and their families) do not need to Landscape Manager Dan Bellavia will guide with current members via e-mail. Please contact purchase tickets in advance. See page 5 and us through an in-depth look into the making [email protected] if you are a member eastman.org/dutchconnection for more details. of Dutch Connection. The talk will focus on and need registration information to be re-sent. Free to members; incl. w/museum admission. various aspects of making a large flower show

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JAN/FEB 2021 | GEM Programs

GEM AT HOME Digitized Films Online YouTube Channel Film fans can enjoy a selection of short films Missed a talk? Looking for a film Experience these programs any time, on from our collection, including documentaries, recommendation? Ready to learn something demand, from wherever you are. promotional films, screen tests, and more. new? All of our video programs are Virtual Discovery Room See them at eastman.org/digitizedfilms. available on our YouTube channel—find it at eastman.org/videos. Looking for hands-on activities based on our Silver Voices Project collections and exhibitions? Enjoy family- In the 1950s, assistant curator of film George friendly fun with our Virtual Discovery Room. Pratt recorded interviews with some of We’ve collected an assortment of activities Hollywood’s most beloved stars of the early you can do using printed materials and 20th century, including Mary Pickford, Buster common objects you may already have around Keaton, and Lillian Gish. Now, hear these your home. Available at eastman.org/kids. interviews online, featuring introductions by WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU museum staff members, as part of the Silver Virtual Tours You can help shape our future virtual Voices Project at eastman.org/silvervoices. We’ve expanded our 360 virtual tours to offerings! Fill out our survey at include not just past and present exhibitions, Darkroom Magic eastman.org/NEHCARES. but the historic mansion, complete with Want to see what happens in our darkroom? video tour featuring curator Kathy Connor, Historic Process Specialist Nick Brandreth the new Thomas Tischer Visitor Center, and shares a variety of techniques and methods the Kay R. Whitmore Conservation Center. from our historic process workshops. Explore them all at eastman.org/virtual-tours. Available at eastman.org/darkroommagic.

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GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 Dryden Theatre

Awaiting Us All at the Dryden

We’d like to thank everyone eager to return to the Dryden for their patience. After Governor Cuomo’s announcement in October that movie theaters across the state could start reopening, we were putting plans in place to open the Dryden in November. But, as we continued to monitor the situation with COVID-19, and with subsequent restrictions put in place by the state and Monroe County, we put those plans on hold.

At press time, we do not know when we will be reopening the Dryden. However, we do continue to plan and prepare for welcoming you back—both with new safety measures in place and a great lineup of programs to ensure the cinema experience you expect from the Dryden.

Here are some of the series you can expect to see when we do return: • A Tribute to Jack Garner: Jack was a very special part of our community. His influence on the Dryden and its programming has been felt for decades. We dove back into our records to identify • Museum Treasures: The Eastman Museum strong in silent film, all presented with programs he was involved in—from has been collecting motion pictures for accompaniment on the house Chickering introductions to interviews to curation— nearly 75 years. The more than 28,000 piano. and will bring them back for you to enjoy. titles in the collection come from all over We are all missing the cinematic experience • Thirty Years of the Film Foundation: the world and span the 125-year history at the Dryden Theatre. Please stay connected The Film Foundation is a filmmaker-led of film exhibition. Some of these films are through eastman.org/dryden and social institution founded in 1990 by Martin particular favorites of the staff and are media. We continue to look for ways to Scorsese that promotes presented in this series—whether a program engage, entertain, and educate online until and education. It has assisted the George of short films or a big-budget epic. we can open our doors once again. Eastman Museum with funding for more • Silent Films: The Dryden remains the only than a hundred preservation projects, a venue in Rochester at the intersection of We’ll reopen as soon as we safely can, and partnership that has ensured important archival film projection and live music. we look forward to welcoming you all back! works are not lost to time. The museum’s collection is particularly

Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli, 1943) is one of the titles we hope to present in our Museum Treasures series once the Dryden is able to reopen. 13

JAN/FEB 2021 | GEM Ask GEM

ASK THE MOVING IMAGE DEPARTMENT What happens when you come across a film you can’t identify?

Not every film comes to us in pristine condition—or even clearly identified. We recently published online two films from our collection that were unidentified. Here, Associate Curator Caroline Yeager explains how Moving Image Department curators and archivists approach unidentified films in the collection, and an exciting outcome of presenting these two films online:

Film archivists often find themselves inspecting films that have no titles—and in the case of silent films, sometimes containing intertitles in a foreign language or lacking intertitles altogether. Silent nitrate film prints are the oldest ones we have in the collection; it was the first to carry moving images. Over time, lack of care and proper storage tend to leave nitrate films in the worst physical condition, so the titles of these films can be elusive.

We have learned that when trying to identify a motion picture it’s a good rule of thumb to accept that what’s in the can may not film archive has unidentified films—hundreds US 1911). This title matches the description necessarily be what’s on the label (if, indeed, of them, sometimes thousands. The easy of the film and two actors, Richard Travers there is a label). Credits and titles may be cases are often solved in an hour, some of the and Fritzi Brunette, are both identifiable. We missing, reels may be in the wrong order, difficult ones linger for decades. also heard from Robert Hansen, who helped us and bits and pieces from different films may place the film firmly in New York City on the have been spliced together. We use every When we launched our digitized films online Upper West Side of Manhattan at 80th Street available tool at our disposal to identify initiative in 2020, we included two films that and Broadway. The museum’s print appears to these mystery films. We look for familiar we preserved from unidentified nitrate prints. be only one extant of this title. faces, a character name, a familiar location. We published these short films in the hopes We examine the perforation area of a print, that someone among our global audience might as edge codes often help to determine the recognize a face or a location and help lead us As the museum continues to publish preserved, year the print was made and, sometimes, the to a positive identification—and it worked! digitized films online, we plan to add more that company that made it. Even the shape of the are in need of identifying. See all of the digitized We heard from Philip Lawes, who identified perforations may become an important clue. films online at eastman.org/filmsonline. the previously unidentified Edison film as As film industries grew all over the world, The Seaforth Highlanders’ Return to Cairo prints circulated everywhere, and often ended after the Fall of Omdurman and Khartoum ASK US! up being retitled and given new intertitles to (UK 1898). The brief three frames that Curious about a collection object? suit a given audience. American films return precede it are probably of students at Oxford Have a question about George Eastman? to us with Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, or Cambridge out on the river in a punt. Want to know more about a project? Russian, Czech, Polish, and German titles, Lawes also identified the other film, formerly Post on social media with #AskGEM or and sometimes in abbreviated forms missing called [Two Bachelors Get Engaged], as When e-mail [email protected]. footage and, therefore, plot. Every major Heart Wires Cross (Powers Picture Company,

When Heart Wires Cross (Powers Picture Company, US 1911), previously known as [Unidentified comedy: 14 Two Bachelors Get Engaged] (US ca. 1910), was recently identified after we published a digitized version online.

GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 Closing Shot

At the second of two Gathering Clouds virtual panel discussions, moderated by curator Heather Shannon, artists Nick Marshall, Sharon Harper, Penelope Umbrico, and Byron Wolfe shared their perspectives on clouds and the nature of photography. Recordings of the talks are available at youtube.com/GeorgeEastmanMuseum.

Sponsored in part by the Corning Incorporated Foundation and made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.

Information JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021

(585) 327-4800 | eastman.org | All information subject to change.

The George Eastman Museum is accredited by the Hours & Admission Health & Safety American Alliance of Museums and is a member To plan your visit, go to eastman.org/visit. • All visitors ages 2+ and staff members are required of the Association of Art Museum Directors and As of press time, the Dryden Theatre is closed. to wear face masks covering nose and mouth. the International Federation of Film Archives. Regular Hours Jan. 1–3: wed–sat 10 a.m.–5 p.m., • Hand sanitizing stations are provided. sun 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (Closed mon & tue) • Social distancing is required between different parties. Limited Hours Jan. 4–Feb. 4 (galleries closed, mansion • Please stay home if you or anyone in your party are open): thu–sat 10 a.m.–5 p.m., sun 11 a.m.–5 p.m. exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19. (Closed mon, tue, wed) Go to eastman.org/visit for more information. Special Hours Feb. 5–28 (Dutch Connection): tue–sat Membership 10 a.m.–5 p.m., sun 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (Closed mon) Accessibility & Interpretation The Eastman Museum is accessible. Some areas of the Subscription to this publication is a benefit of museum Museum Admission: Members always free. historic mansion and gardens have limited accessibility. membership. Other benefits include free admission, $18 adults, $16 seniors (65+), $7 ages 5–17 and discounted film tickets, members‑only events, and students (w/ID). Discounted Admission Jan. 7– Sign language interpretation for events is available more. To become a member, visit eastman.org/join Feb. 4 (galleries closed, mansion open): $15 adults, with one week’s notice; contact [email protected]. or call Member Services at (585) 327-4861. $13 seniors (65+), $5 ages 5–17 and students (w/ID). Public Transportation Join Us Online Always free for ages 4 & under, for EBT/SNAP cardholders & their families, and for active-duty military & their families. RTS East Ave. route 57, University Ave. route 48, GEM at Home: eastman.org/home Park Ave. route 31 Purchase tickets online in advance (required for #EastmanMuseum nonmembers) at eastman.org/tickets. Advance tickets not facebook.com/GeorgeEastmanMuseum Facility Rentals required for members or others receiving free admission. Instagram & Twitter: @EastmanMuseum Host your private event or wedding ceremony at youtube.com/GeorgeEastmanMuseum the Eastman Museum. Call (585) 327-4888.

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DUTCH CONNECTION RETURNS! On display February 5–28 Find all the info you need to plan your next visit to the museum at eastman.org/visit.