Das Eskimobaby / Eskimo Hunters of Northwest Alaska

The Velaslavasay Panorama

Calls forth the Arctic

Mush! To The Movies! : A Polar Film Club

Das Eskimobaby & Eskimo Hunters of Northwest Alaska
Friday, February 6th, 2015 7:30PM
eskimobaby.brownpapertickets.com
$10 General Admission
at The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 W. 24th St. LA, CA 90007
213-746-2166

Our feature film, Das Eskimobaby, will be preceded this week by a short film on 1940s life in Northwest Alaska, a terrain within the Arctic Circle where human life dates back over 6,000 years, and is aptly entitled Eskimo Hunters of Northwest Alaska. The film is somewhat of an updated version of Nanook of the North (our next Mush! To The Movies! feature) and follows a young boy and girl and their father as they go about their daily business, witnessing their triumphs and struggles in hunting. As you will see, the trading post plays a pivitol role in economics during this time, as animal skins and furs are exchanged for other goods in a hut somewhat like our very own Nova Tuskhut. 

Eskimo Hunters of Northwest Alaska
USA, 1949, 20 min. b&w, digital projection
Directed by W. K. Norton, Produced by Louis De Rochemont Associates
*The Screening of this film is sponsored by JKL Components Corporation 

Followed by:

Das Eskimobaby
Germany, 1918, 65 min., b&w, digital projection
Directed by Heinz Schall
Silent with score by Maud Nelissen
*The Screening of this film is sponsored by Magda Rockmore 

A rare, winning German silent film staring comedy diva Asta Nielsen as Ivigtut, an Eskimo woman, and Freddy Wingardh as a young polar explorer, Knud Prätorius, who brings Invigtut home to Berlin and introduces her to a very particular type of new, high society.  

Mush! To The Movies! is a collaborative project between Los Angeles Filmforum's Director, Adam Hyman, and The Velaslavasay Panorama, presenting a retrospective of Polar Cinema to the city of LA.  Popcorn and a Polar Passport is complimentary to all with free tickets offered to VPES Members and Members of Los Angeles Filmforum with advanced RSVP. Please contact the secretary at event@panoramaonview.org for member benefits. 

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* To become a Mush! to the Movies! Sponsor & have your personalized message and/or business name on our theatre banners, please contact the secretary at event@panoramaonview.org or ask in person 

Forthcoming at The Velaslavasay Panorama

The Reader's Chorus

Sunday, March 1st, 2015, 7PM
$12.00 General Admission
$10.00 Current VPES Members
http://thereaderschorus.brownpapertickets.com/

A performance of Robert Lax and John Beer's "Black and White Oratorio"
with a selection of newly commissioned works by The Reader's Chorus:

Casey Anderson, Jordan Biren, Kate Brown, Clay Chaplin, Tuni Chatterji,
Corey Fogel, Morgan Gerstmar, Jen Hutton, James Klopfleisch, Todd Lerew,
Manuel Lima, Heather Lockie, Eve Luckring, Sara Roberts, Mady Schutzman,
Haruko Tanaka, Christine Tavolacci