The Dryden will screen A Night at the Movies 100 Years Ago with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli, featuring American Cooperative Weekly (U.S. 1917, 3 min., 35mm), Exploits of Elaine – Episode 2 (George B. Seitz and Louis Gasnier, U.S. 1914—15, 30 min., 35mm), Domestic Difficulties (H.G. Fisher, U.S. 1916, 8 min., 35mm), and The Cossack Whip (John H. Collins, U.S. 1916, 73 min., 35mm).

We are continuing our series of A Night at the Movies 100 Years Ago with a program from 1916, featuring a newsreel, a cartoon starring two popular characters from the newspaper "funnies" of the time, an exciting episode of the most popular serial of 1916, and a feature starring Viola Dana as Darya, a ballerina in prerevolutionary Russia bent on revenge against the sadistic and despicable Czarist police chief who murdered her husband and father. A thrilling and sometimes wonderfully kinky melodrama, The Cossack Whip is one of the few surviving films of the talented director Collins, the real-life husband of Dana.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-22]