Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

407. When Lincoln Paid: The Reintroduction of a Forgotten Film

7:15–8:30 p.m., Golden Gate 8, Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Lawrence Benaquist, Keene State Coll.

1. “Abraham Lincoln in Movies of the Silent Era: The Adaptation of an Icon,” Patrick Loughney, George Eastman House

2. “The First Filmmaking Ford: Francis Ford as Actor and Director,” Scott Allan Simmon, Univ. of California, Davis

3. “Mourning in America: The Loss of Lincoln, Fifty Years Later,” Daniel Isaac Humphrey, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

Respondent: Lawrence Benaquist

See session 375 for a screening of the film When Lincoln Paid.

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