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<font class="bodyhead">Film Series: Wednesday at the Movies with <em>The Once and Future Web</em></font><br /><br />
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<font class="bodycopy">In conjunction with <font class="bodyital">The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet, </font> the Exhibtion Program at the National Library of Medicine hosted a free public film series. <font class="bodyital">Wednesday at the Movies</font> offered a mixture of popular films that explore the impact of the telegraph, computers, and the Internet on our society and culture. <br /><br />
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Each film was introduced by an invited guest speaker with expertise in the film's subject area, with an audience discussion to follow the screening. All movies were shown with closed captions and a sign-language interpreter was available for the introductions and discussions.</font><br /><br />
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<font class="bodyhead">When:</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">Select Wednesdays from 6:30 to 9:00 PM.</font><br /><br />
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<font class="bodyhead">Where:</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">Lister Hill Auditorium (Building 38A), 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland. Seating was on a first-come-first-served basis.</font><br /><br /><br />
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<ul type="square"><li><font class="bodyhead">April 3: <em>Western Union</em> (director Fritz Lang, 1941)</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">A grizzled guide hired to protect a crew in charge of stringing the transcontinental telegraph line winds up in a romantic battle with a brash young Easterner who is a member of the engineering crew, when they both fall in love with the chief engineer's sister. Stars Robert Young and Randolph Scott. With short film: <em>The Post Telegrapher</em>, an early silent Western.<br /><br />
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<font class="bodyhead">Speaker:</font> Bernard Finn (Curator, Division of Electricity and Modern Physics, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)</font><br /><br /></li>
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<li><font class="bodyhead">April 10: <em>Fail Safe</em> (director Sidney Lumet, 1964)</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">In this gripping Cold War drama, America's automated, computer-networked defense system almost starts World War III. A series of human and computer errors sends a squadron of American B-52 bombers to nuke Moscow. As the planes near their target, the crisis deepens and together the Americans and Soviets decide on a final, desperate solution. Stars Henry Fonda, Jack Webb, Walter Matthau. <br /><br /><font class="bodyhead">Speaker:</font> Janet Abbate (University of Maryland, College Park; historian of computer networks and the Cold War; author of <em>Inventing the Internet</em>, MIT Press, 1999)</font><br /><br /></li>
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<li><font class="bodyhead">April 17: <em>Edison the Man</em> (director Clarence Brown, 1940)</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">In flashbacks, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an eighty-two-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. While inventing an early form of stock market ticker, he meets his future wife and proposes in Morse Code! Stars Spencer Tracy.<br /><br />
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<font class="bodyhead">Speaker:</font> Robert Freidel (University of Maryland, College Park; historian of technology; author of <em>Edison's Electric Light </em>and <em>The Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty</em>)</font><br /><br /></li>
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<li><font class="bodyhead">April 24: <em>The Matrix</em> (directors Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999)</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">Keanu Reeves stars in this movie where the Matrix is a construct set up to grow humans, hook them up into a computer system and harvest their energy as they live out their lives in a virtual reality. Humans are slaves, used as batteries to keep the artificial intelligence ruling the world of the late 22nd century.<br /><br />
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<font class="bodyhead">Speaker: </font>Lisa Lynch (Catholic University; Visiting Professor, Media Studies)</font><br /><br /></li>
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<li><font class="bodyhead">May 1: <em>Balto</em> (director Simon Wells, 1995)</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">When an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925, Dr. Curtis Welch sends out a call for help via wireless telegraph and a half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero. Balto leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get antitoxin serum and saves the city in this feature-length animated film. It will also include a short feature: 1925 newsreel footage of Balto entering Nome.<br /><br /><font class="bodyhead">Speaker: </font>Chuck Howell (Curator, Library of American Broadcasting, College Park)</font><br /><br /></li>
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<li><font class="bodyhead">May 8: <em>Enemy of the State</em> (director Tony Scott, 1998)</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">Starring Will Smith, this edge-of-your-seats thriller shows the power of the high-tech world of surveillance as the protagonist's life is turned upside down by a chance encounter with an old friend.<br /><br /><font class="bodyhead">Speaker: </font>Marc Rotenberg (Georgetown University School of Law; director, Electronic Privacy Information Center) </font><br /><br /></li>
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<li><font class="bodyhead">May 15: <em>You've Got Mail</em> (director Nora Ephron, 1998)</font><br /><font class="bodycopy">Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan play characters who hate each other but who nonetheless fall for each other through email in this romantic comedy.<br /><br /><font class="bodyhead">Speaker: </font>Katie King (Women Studies Program, University of Maryland, College Park; author of <em>Theory in its Feminist Travels</em>)</font><br />
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<strong>First published: </strong>23 October 2001<br/><strong>Last updated: </strong>11 August 2009<br/><strong>Date Archived: </strong>04 January 2012<br/><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/viewMeta.pl?url=http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20120104/onceandfutureweb/pastevents/index.html&description=full" onclick="javascript:openPopup('http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/viewMeta.pl?url=http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20120104/onceandfutureweb/pastevents/index.html&description=full'); return false;"><strong>Metadata</strong></a> | <strong> <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/permlevels.html"onclick="javascript:openPopup('http://www.nlm.nih.gov/permlevels.html'); return false;">Permanence level</a>: </strong>Permanent: Stable Content<br/>
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