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Hartford’s Challenge to “The Birth of a Nation”
…film respectability in many proponents eyes. Following a successful run of the film, the Palace Theatre returned to its normal vaudeville fare, which included Lasky’s Darktown Revue and its twelve…
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Portland’s Guy Hedlund: Actor and Activist
…David Wark Griffith until taking an $80-per-day job with Pathé Films, just missing a chance to star in Griffith’s epic and controversial film, Birth of a Nation. Seeing the growth…
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Video – Rosalind Russell Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to Waterbury native Rosalind Russell, the legendary award-winning actress of stage and screen. Russell began acting…
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Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Greenwich
…a short movie entitled Run, Run that featured his daughters Cheryl and Lisa. The film incorporated images with music to “evoke an emotional response,” a technique Henson used in the…
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A 1947 Movie Details the Unsolved Murder of a Bridgeport Priest
…on foot as passers-by and people in the nearby Lyric Theater (waiting for the curtain to rise on a play starring Ethel Barrymore) rushed to Dahme’s side. In the confusion,…
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Ernest Borgnine: Breaking the Hollywood Mold
…on Broadway in Harvey in 1949. Marty Brings Film Stardom It was in the 1950s that Borgnine made a number of film appearances that were as disparate as they were…
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Video – Florence Griswold Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to Florence Griswold, an Old Lyme native who fostered the impressionist art movement in Connecticut….
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Video – Mary Townsend Seymour Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to Hartford native Mary Townsend Seymour, a pioneering advocate for equal rights for African Americans and…
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Video – Barbara McClintock Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to Hartford native Barbara McClintock, a famed geneticist and Nobel Prize winner. Her research laid…
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Video – Helen Keller Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to Easton resident Helen Keller, an inspirational champion for the disabled. As a lobbyist, fundraiser,…
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Video – Augusta Lewis Troup Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to Augusta Lewis Troup, a pioneering labor leader, journalist, educator, and suffragist. Devoting much of…
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Video – Florence Wald Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to Florence Wald, founder of hospice care in the United States. Dean of the Yale…
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Video – Sophie Tucker Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to celebrated singer and actress, and long-time Hartford resident, Sophie Tucker. “The Last of the…
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Video – Dotha Bushnell Hillyer Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to philanthropist Dotha Bushnell Hillyer, patron of a living memorial to her father, the Reverend…
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Video – Martha Parsons Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to Enfield native Martha Parsons, the first female business executive in Connecticut to earn her…
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Video – Emily Dunning Barringer Tribute Film
YouTube – Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame pays tribute to long-time New Canaan resident, Dr. Emily Barringer, the first female ambulance surgeon and first…
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Katharine Hepburn’s Love Affair (with Connecticut)
…with an offer from Hollywood to appear in A Bill of Divorcement, which co-starred John Barrymore. The film’s director was George Cukor, with whom Hepburn eventually made ten films. Within…
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Remembering Fredi Washington: Actress, Activist, and Journalist
…a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem during the 1920s. She appeared in Black and Tan, a short film featuring Duke Ellington and his orchestra, in 1929 and went…
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Marietta Canty House
…in radio, stage, and film. Canty’s political and social activism in the years following her retirement from the entertainment industry (1960s through 1980s) further increased her status as a pioneer…
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Video – Mark Twain at Stormfield
YouTube – Mark Twain at Stormfield, 1909 (Edison film) In 1906 Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) purchased 195 acres of land in Redding, Connecticut. Then, after his story Captain Stormfield’s Visit…
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Edwin Land Inventor of the Polaroid Born – Today in History: May 7
…photography (or the “Polaroid”), but it was his invention of a synthetic polarizer—a thin film to distort light and reduce glare—that actually launched his career. Detail from Edwin H. Land’s…
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The Astronomical Event of the Century
…spent looking directly at the sun. The Gustave Fischer Company in Hartford sold what they called “filmeo,” special cards that enclosed a piece of exposed photographic film to protect viewers’…
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The Battle for Cockenoe Island
…Although a 1964 movie filmed in nearby Stamford, The Horror of Party Beach, featured an atomic mutation that terrorized beachgoers, during the early 1960s atomic energy remained widely regarded as…
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Video: 1938 Thanksgiving Proclamation
…after losing to Raymond E. Baldwin in the gubernatorial election. This particular proclamation is notable because the film above was made of Governor Cross reading this proclamation on December 9,…
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New Canaan’s Pioneering Female Physician
…and served as Chairman of the Special Committee of the American Medical Women’s Association. Her achievements even captured the attention of Hollywood filmmakers, who adapted her 1950 autobiography into a…
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Ann Petry: Old Saybrook’s Bestselling African American Author
…film, That Hill Girl, starring Kim Novak, but the film never materialized. Petry disliked the sudden fame and attention she received from her literary success and often avoided the spotlight,…
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J. P. Morgan’s Connecticut Roots
…East 36th Street to house his art collection and library. An attack on the building is the centerpiece of the 1981 film Ragtime and the 1975 novel by E. L….
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Video – Free-for-all Race at Charter Oak Park
YouTube – Library of Congress This early Edison Manufacturing Co. film shows part of the enormous crowd assembled on July 5, 1897, to watch the fastest harness horse in the…
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Ezra Stiles Captured 18th-Century Life on Paper
…of 1795. He left behind a legacy of educational advancement among the finest of its time. Today, his preserved records fill 42 boxes and make up 22 reels of microfilm…
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Old Saybrook Faces Down Threats to Its Water Supply
…natural environments that lie along the state’s numerous waterways. Nowhere is this more evident than in the devastation wrought on the Connecticut River. In the 1965 documentary film, The Long…
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Hamden’s Literary Legend
…Luis Rey. The book examined the fate of five travelers who fall to their deaths from a bridge in Peru. It earned Wilder his first Pulitzer Prize. The Broadway opening…
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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
…For those who lived through the 1918 flu, life was never same. Interviewed for the film, Influenza 1918, part of The American Experience series on public television, 85-year-old John Delano…
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Sarah Bernhardt Performs in Hartford – Today in History: June 8
On June 8, 1906, French stage and film actress Sarah Bernhardt appeared at Foot Guard Hall in Hartford. She performed the part of Marguerite Gautier in the play La Dame…
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Sylvester Poli, Negotiating Cultural Politics in an Age of Immigration
…the first half of the 20th century tended to be affordable even for those with little disposable income. (It cost about 25 cents to see a film as late as…
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West Cornwall Covered Bridge: An Icon of New England Craftsmanship
…carries vehicle traffic over the Housatonic River on Connecticut Route 128) is listed on the National Register of Historic places and has been a symbol of the area’s rural heritage…
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Sophie Tucker, The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas
…War Relief Campaign. Sophie Tucker – Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Born in Russia in 1884, Sophie Kalish and her family immigrated to the United States and by…
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Hartford’s Fuller Brush Company Goes Door-to-Door Across US
…Jeff, and Mickey Mouse. Even the Walt Disney film The Three Little Pigs included a scene in which the wolf poses as a Fuller Brush Man. Fuller’s oldest son, Howard,…
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Katharine Hepburn Born – Today in History: May 12
…an actress, she won four Oscars for best actress—her first in 1933 for the film Morning Glory and her last for On Golden Pond in 1981—as well as an Emmy,…
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Holmes at Home: The Life of William Gillette
…The Professor, enjoyed a 151-performance run in New York and a national tour. Not always popular with critics, Gillette focused on pleasing the public. During the 1880s, he experimented with…
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From Frontier Town to Capital City: Collection Traces Hartford’s Transformation
…years ago have been created from glass-plate negatives. (Before the introduction of film, glass was one medium photographers used to capture images that could then be made into prints.) Many…
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Video – William Gillette’s Railroad
YouTube – CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection Actor William Gillette is featured in this two-minute newsreel, “Sherlock Holmes Turns Engineer,” filmed by Fox Movietone News in 1927. Gillette’s…
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The Gettysburg Address and Heroic Fathers Bronze Tablets at the State Capitol
…of the 1930s book, and later film, Gone with the Wind. Connecticut boasts at least one additional WRC monument that shows the tablet in Hartford was not a singular effort…
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The 29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Flag and Display
…in Massachusetts, including the famed 54th immortalized in the film Glory, and Connecticut’s 29th (Colored) Volunteer Infantry (CVI)) retained their original state designations throughout the war. This 29th (Colored) Regiment…
Read The Connecticut River
…order to generate power, while dumping industrial wastes that threatened to destroy fragile ecological environments downstream. The abuse heaped upon the river continued into the 20th century. Agricultural run-off from…
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Clare Boothe Luce Changed Perceptions about Women in Business and Politics
…657 performances, and became a feature film in 1939. Luce’s talents reached beyond the realm of theater and popular culture, however. At the outset of World War II, she drew…
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Windsor’s “Murder Factory”
…Broadway from 1939 until 1944 under the title, “Arsenic and Old Lace.” Frank Capra adapted the play for the silver screen. The film, Arsenic and Old Lace starring Cary Grant,…
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Southbury Takes On the Nazis
…a nearby abandoned road for use by the New Haven Railroad. Image from the film Home Front: During World War II – Co-produced by Connecticut Public Television and Connecticut Humanities…
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American Actor Changes 19th-Century Theater – Who Knew?
…portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in film and theater, was also a successful playwright. His commitment to realism (in acting, sets, and costuming) in a time where melodrama ruled the stage…
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Gerald MacGuire and the Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt
…to Congress, MacGuire said he had large sums of money at his disposal to bankroll a run by Butler for the Legion’s top post. A short time later, MacGuire traveled…
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Waterford’s Need for Speed
…served as a filming location for the 2011 movie 3 Weeks to Daytona. Today, the Waterford Speedbowl continues to host a variety of racing events, including NASCAR’s Whelen All-American Series…
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Rosa Ponselle: Meriden’s Famous Musical Daughter
…her musical prowess as a “song slide girl” in silent film houses, providing a melodic backdrop to silent pictures. Rosa, inspired by her sister Carmela’s singing of Italian opera and…
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Bridgeport’s WPKN: Going Strong After Half a Century
…organizations, and other institutions transforming downtown Bridgeport. Long before its move to Bijou Square, WPKN sponsored films and other events at locales in and around Bridgeport. It has also regularly…
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Trouble in the Connecticut Suburbs: Revolutionary Road
…2008 film adaptation were particularly well-received. Bridgeport native Andy Piascik is an award-winning author who has written for numerous publications and websites over the last four decades and is the…
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Hartford’s Louis Peterson, Groundbreaking African American Playwright
…in the cast, and United Artists made a film version in 1959 featuring Ruby Dee and 18-year-old Johnny Nash, who later became famous as a singer of the smash 1970s…
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Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak
…during the Holocaust. A few years later, in 2009, Sendak helped produce the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, which combined live-action, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery (CGI). Jim…
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Mary Townsend Seymour: Hartford’s Organizer, Activist, and Suffragist
…Even though she lost the election, she was the first African American woman to run for the Connecticut General Assembly. Seymour ran and lost again in 1922, this time for…
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Constance Baker Motley: A Warrior for Justice
…2012. Also, in 2015, a documentary by R. E. Rogers entitled, The Trials of Constance Baker Motley, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and lauded many of her professional achievements…
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Selma, Not So Far Away
By Steve Thornton Father Leonard Tartaglia was sometimes called Hartford’s “Hoodlum Priest.” Like the 1961 film of the same name, Tartaglia ministered to the city’s poor and disenfranchised. He challenged…
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Emmeline Pankhurst’s “Freedom or Death” Speech Energizes Connecticut Women in 1913
…Woman Suffrage Association and mother of film star Katharine Hepburn—introduced her to an enthusiastic crowd of both women and men. With persuasive rhetoric, Pankhurst captivated her audience and detailed the…
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New England Society for Psychic Research: Connecticut Paranormal Investigators Leave Legacy of the Occult
…the basis for “The Conjuring” film in 2013. As an occult research group, the society investigated more than ten thousand cases of reported paranormal activity with the Warrens at the…
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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
…and in storage, are Greek and Roman antiquities; European decorative arts; Baroque and Surrealist paintings; Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; modernist masterpieces; Ballets Russes costumes and…
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Morton Biskind Warned the World About DDT
…has written for many publications and websites over the last four decades. He is also the author of two books. YOUTUBE – DDT: Weapon Against Disease – Documentary Film (1945)…
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Elizabeth W. Coe Demands the Right of Jury Service
…gave a decision which ruled that women could not serve as jurors. Since that ruling the women have fought to have the Legislature amend the jury law to include women…
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Video – Undersea University – US Navy’s Submarine School
Produced by the US Government in 1965, this film of the US Naval Submarine Base New London submarine training school includes a tour of its Submarine Library, a demonstration of…
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Chick Austin Modernizes a Connecticut Institution
…Picasso’s work, brought the Ballets Russes to Hartford, and hosted the theatrical performance of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts, featuring the first entirely black cast…
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Connecticut Yankee and Millstone: 48 Years of Nuclear Power
…all new power plants built in the region in the years ahead.” Millstone Point Company, Waterford. Photograph by Kevin Donovan Films, 1967. The plant is shown under construction – Connecticut…
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From the State Historian: Discovering the Explorer Hiram Bingham III
…Peru, ca. 1918 – Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library Bingham always believed that the thing he would be remembered for was Machu Picchu. His 1948 runaway bestseller Lost City…
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And They’re Off!: Harness Racing at Charter Oak Park
…by a harness, was wildly popular in 19th-century America. The horses are required to run with a specific gait—either pacing (when the front and back legs on the same side…
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Drawn to Superheroes
…James Aparo retired in 2001 and passed away after a short illness in 2005. His influence on American popular culture, however, continues to shape modern film and comics through his…
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Picture This: Seeing Connecticut in 3-D
…cardboard mount and seen through an optical device called a stereopticon. Stereo views can be seen as a sort of proto-cinematic experience before the age of film. In an age…
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Video – Vampires and Witches in Connecticut a Lecture and Panel Discussion
YouTube – CTOldStateHouse Filmed on October 22, 2013, this video is a part of Connecticut’s Old State House Conversations at Noon series. State Archaeologist Nick Bellantoni discussed the New…
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