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The Academy celebrates the year 1909 and its developmental contributions to motion pictures with a program
of selected films in “A Century Ago: The Films of 1909.” The program will spotlight the public’s earliest
recognition of and preference for screen actors, which would force film distributors to identify them; this
quickly evolved into the “star system” of motion picture advertising. “A Century Ago: The Films of 1909” will
include D.W. Griffith’s landmark social film “A Corner in Wheat,” which illustrates his continued development
of parallel cutting; Vitagraph’s trick film “Princess Nicotine,” containing state-of-the-art visual effects of the
time; Essanay’s “A Case of Seltzer,” featuring comic actor Ben Turpin; Pathé’s comedic “Love’s Surprise,”
starring Max Linder; Essanay’s ”The Ranchman’s Rival,” starring “Broncho Billy” Anderson; and the newly
formed IMP Company’s “Hiawatha,” among others. Most prints will be in 35mm and are drawn from the
collections of the Academy Film Archive, the Library of Congress, George Eastman House, and the UCLA
Film & Television Archive.
Tickets for A CENTURY AGO: THE FILMS OF 1909, THE STARS ARE BORN are $5 for the general public and $3 for
Academy members and students with a valid I.D. Tickets may be purchased online at www.oscars.org and in person at the
Academy during regular business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday–Friday) For additional information, please
call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org. The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at the Academy’s Pickford Center for
Motion Picture Study, 1313 Vine Street, Hollywood.
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