This fall the Thanhouser Film Company’s 100th anniversary is being celebrated with a trio of special events including a screening of silent films at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and at the Museum of Modern Art , as well as a lecture and screening at the Museum of Arts & Culture in New Rochelle on Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM in the Kelly Theater at New Rochelle High School.

     Before there was a Hollywood, there was the Thanhouser Studio in New Rochelle, which produced more than 1,000 films between 1909 and 1917. Ned Thanhouser, grandson of the company’s founders and President of Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc., will be the Museum of Arts & Culture’s very special guest for “Silents Are Golden,” an event being co-sponsored by the MAC and the New Rochelle Public Library; Ben Model, one of the country’s leading silent film accompanists, will provide complementary music for selected Thanhouser shorts. The Donald Baughman Museum of Arts & Culture is a project of the non-profit New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence.  Entrance to the Kelly Theater in the New Rochelle High School from North Avenue at Braemer. This community event is co-sponsored by the Museum of Arts & Culture and the New Rochelle Public Library.  For more information visit the Museum of Arts & Culture web site at www.dbmac.org. (914) 576-6518