For our fifth monthly public domain night, Internet Archive will host a screening of WINGS (1927), starring Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers, and Richard Arlen.
Join us for a timeless story of courage, love, and war–so exquisitely told, that WINGS earned the inaugural Academy Award for Best Picture, the only fully silent film ever to do so.
Set against the backdrop of World War I, WINGS tells the tale of fighter pilots during World War I, who have left two young women behind on the home front. It is acclaimed for its innovative camerawork, cinematography, and technique, with many scenes shot from the air, including spectacular aerial “dogfight” scenes, the first in cinematic history.
WINGS was considered a lost film for many decades, but it was found and ultimately restored at the Cinematheque Francaise in 1992. We are fortunate to have a beautiful restoration screening at the Internet Archive.
Your $5 ticket includes snacks and any seat in our spacious 400-seat great room.
Arrive when doors open: you won’t want to miss the introduction by film historian Lara Gabrielle. Lara is the author of Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies, and is one of today’s leading authorities on silent film. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and on PBS’s American Experience, and she has partnered on film-related initiatives with the American Film Institute, The New York Public Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lara is acknowledged as “the reigning expert on Marion Davies,” and Captain of Her Soul was a finalist for the 2023 Northern California Book Award. She lives in Oakland.
Doors open at 7:30 pm on Friday, September 13th.
Watch the trailer here: https://archive.org/details/turner_video_19
