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 […]

    Serial Style: The Business of Being Irene Castle A virtual presentation by Denise N. Green, Associate Professor of Fashion Design, College of Human Ecology on Thursday, October 14, 7-8pm.   Join us online for Professor Green’s engaging talk about Irene Castle who was already a household name when she arrived in Ithaca in 1916 to […]

Wednesday, October 27th, 7-8:30pm Patrick Conway & his Famous Ithaca Band A virtual presentation by local historian and Visiting Lecturer at Cornell who, since 2011, has taught a class about Cornell history. Presented by Friends of Stewart Park as part of its Stewart Park Centennial Zoom Series. Join local historian Corey Ryan Earle, as he […]

Saturday, November 13th, 7:15pm A Fool There Was (1915) starring Theda Bara and Edward Jose with live musical accompaniment At Cornell Cinema 1915 > USA > Directed by Frank Powell A Fool There Was features a breakthrough performance by Theda Bara, one of America’s most famous silent film stars. It is just one of two surviving […]

  Thursday, November 18th, 7pm The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema Presented by Historic Geneva A virtual presentation by Barbara Tepa Lupack, historian and author who has written extensively on American literature, film, and culture, including Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema (Cornell University Press, 2020) […]

    Silent Movie Under the Stars returns to Taughannock on Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 8pm for its 11th year with a screening of a newly-restored Sherlock Holmes (1916) starring William Gillette. The film, released by Flicker Alley, comes with a stellar accompanying original score by England’s Neil Brand Ensemble and this year, in a break with […]