We are terribly disappointed to have to call off our 12th Silent Movie Under the Stars due to rain, thunder and lightning last night and, unfortunately, because more of the same is predicted today, our rain date for  Sunday, August 21.   Thank you so much to everyone who came out to Taughannock last […]

  Saturday, August 20 is our 12th annual Silent Movie Under the Stars, a silent film with live music under the night sky at Taugahnnock Falls State Park!! This event is FREE and family friendly!  Featuring: Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” Bring a chair, bring a blanket, bring your family & friends—it’s going to be […]

  Join WSM on Saturday, May 21 at 1pm at The Dryden Theater at the George Eastman Museum for From Nickelodeon to Movie Palace, the fourth and final lecture in Finger Lakes Film Trail’s Making Noise About Silent Film: Conversations About Cinema, Culture and Social Change series. Presenter is Ken Fox, Head of Library and […]

  The Screening & Awards Ceremony for Quiet on the Set!, WSM’s student film festival is set for Saturday, June 4th, 2022 at 4pm at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca.   Join us for our fifth festival of short silent films by youth in the Southern Tier.  We have a wealth of entries this year and a wonderful […]

Wharton Studio Museum and Historic Ithaca are excited to have collaborated on Biggest Little Movie City: Ithaca’s Theaters Then and Now, a new multimedia exhibit highlighting and celebrating Ithaca’s rich legacy of movie making and watching. The exhibit is on view 10am-5pm Tuesdays through Saturdays from February 3 through April 2022 at the Tompkins Center for History and Culture’s Atrium Tower, 110 N. Tioga Street/The Commons in downtown Ithaca.

The Finger Lakes Film Trail proudly announces the upcoming launch of Making Noise About Silent Film: Conversations About Cinema, Culture, and Social Change, a new four-part presentation series starting February 23 and continuing through early May 2022! The presentations examine the social and cultural impact of early film and explore the way that silent cinema helped to […]

Wharton Studio Museum(WSM) is very glad to announce that on November 3rd,City of Ithaca Common Council approved its 2022 budget which includes $100,000 for WSM’s Wharton Studio Park Center in the historic Wharton Studio Building. The year-round lakefront destination will feature exhibit space, a cafe and terrace, and small shop/office. This project is being developed […]

  In 2012, Mayor Myrick proclaimed October as Silent Movie Month in Ithaca to highlight the region’s role in early American moviemaking. Join the celebration this year — its 10th —  with virtual and in-person events, and WSM’s ongoing multimedia exhibit at the Tompkins Center for History & Culture. In this unusual year, we’re expanding […]