{"id":8536,"date":"2016-08-24T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=8536"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:40:15","slug":"lights-of-new-york-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/lights-of-new-york-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights of New York screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Dryden<\/strong> will screen <strong>Lights of New York<\/strong> (Bryan Foy, U.S. 1928, 57 min., 16mm). <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lights of New York started as a two-reel short subject. Director Bryan Foy secretly increased the length to seven reels to make it the first all-talking picture. The plot revolves around two Upstate New York barbers who are convinced by bootleggers to come to the city and open a shop there. They soon learn that their shop is just a front for a speakeasy. Many of the clich&eacute;s associated with the gangster film were born in Lights of New York, including classic line \"take him for a ride.\" Produced on a budget of only $23,000 it grossed over one million dollars and created the panic in Hollywood for the production of talking pictures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.eastman.org\/event\/film-screenings\/lights-new-york\">George Eastman Museum website<\/a>, 2016-Aug-22]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dryden will screen Lights of New York (Bryan Foy, U.S. 1928, 57 min., 16mm). Lights of New York started as a two-reel short subject. Director Bryan Foy secretly increased the length to seven reels to make it the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/lights-of-new-york-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3164],"class_list":["post-8536","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2016-aug-25","cat_jayceland-2016-aug-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8536\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}