Wharton Studio Museum — Ithaca, NY
Our 7th Annual Silent Movie Under the Stars is coming up in late August! Stay tuned for details! Last year’s screening of Tess of the Storm Country (1922) attracted our biggest audience to date to Taughannock Falls State Park. We look…
Calendar of Events
7th Annual Silent Movie Under the Stars: Saturday, August 26th, 2017 — sundown at Taughannock Falls State Park Join Wharton Studio Museum (WSM) for its 7th Annual Silent Movie Under the Stars at Taughannock Falls State Park on Saturday, August 26th, 2017. This outdoor…
On-Site Exhibits
Current & Past On-Site Exhibits: In addition to screening events Wharton Studio Museum produces exhibits on Ithaca’s silent film history. Pending the debut of our bricks & mortar museum building, WSM brings these exhibits to the community via public and…
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The Wharton Studio Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts and education organization in New York State. Your contribution is tax deductible, supports our community-based programming and allows us to continue to preserve and celebrate Ithaca’s silent movie history, including the historic Wharton Studio…
Then & Now: Silent Film on Location in Ithaca, NY
View the past and the present all at once in this presentation of silent film footage shot in the Ithaca area in the early 1900s. This short video shows clips from silent films made in Ithaca overlaid onto video of…
Silent Film & Cognitive Science
Wharton Studio history at SCSMI Conference On June 4, 2016, WSM’s Executive Director Diana Riesman was invited by Cornell’s Department of Cognitive Science to present a talk with images and film clips about the Wharton Studio at the closing dinner…
#OscarsSoWhite
Read #OscarsSoWhite, an informed commentary on this trending topic written by guest author Barbara Tepa Lupack for WSM’s Cinefiles-Ithaca blog. An author and editor of numerous books on American literature, film and culture, Ms. Lupack is a former Fulbright Professor,…