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Friends of Edison National Historic Park in West Orange to Present Edison's 1910 "Frankenstein" at Hat City Kitchen Sunday, October 28

Cynthia Cumming

Saturday, October 20, 2012 • 1:51pm

 

WEST ORANGE, NJ - On Sunday, October 28, 2012, the Friends of Edison National Historic Park will present Frankenstein, a 15 minute silent film released by the Edison Company in 1910. The single print film adaptation was discovered in the mid-70s after being thought forever lost.
 
The screening will take place at  Hat City Kitchen at 1:30 on Sunday, October 28.  Tom Meyers, Executive Director of the Fort Lee Film Commission, and John Columbus, Founder and Director of the Black Maria Film Festival, will introduce the film and lead a discussion following the screening.
 
Hat City Kitchen (http://www.hatcitykitchen.com/) is located at 459 Valley Street, Orange, New Jersey, near the West Orange border.  Hat City Kitchen opened in the Valley Arts District of Orange in 2010. Its name evokes the local factories that once employed thousands and supplied haberdashers all over the world. Housing and Neighborhood Development Services Inc.(HANDS), which has rehabilitated scores of homes in the area, owns the restaurant and hopes that its 1890s building will become a bustling performing-arts space.
 
Thomas Edison National Historical Park is a National Park Service site that preserves and promotes the extraordinary achievments of Thomas Alva Edison. Historic artifact and archive collections are housed and maintained at the Edison Laboratory Complex and Glenmont, the Edison family estate. You can visit their site at http://www.nps.gov/edis.
 
The Friends of Thomas Edison NHP is a not-for profit organization supports the Thomas Edison NHP in the through advocacy, volunteer service and fundraising. The Friends also assist in fundraising and special events planning for Edison NHP.For additional information please call 973-736-2916 or send email (preferred) to foe00@verizon.net.
 

 

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