Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Watch the film Carl Laemmle from December 7-12 and then meet filmmaker James Freedman for a Q&A on December 12, 3:00pm.
Carl Laemmle is the extraordinary story of the German-Jewish immigrant who practically invented the modern motion picture business. Investing in nickelodeons, Carol Laemmle fought and ultimately overcame Thomas Edison’s attempts to monopolize the film industry. Creating Universal Pictures in 1912, Laemmle hired many talents who would go on to become Hollywood legends, including Walt Disney, John Ford, William Wyler and Irving Thalberg. He also hired many female directors and made Lois Weber the highest paid director on his lot. Under Laemmle’s leadership, Universal became known for such classic monster movies as The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, Dracula and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
When he sold Universal in 1936, Laemmle would go on to do something far more important than any movie or studio he had created, battling the Third Reich and a notoriously anti-Semitic U.S. State Department, he rescued more than 300 Jewish refugee families from the Holocaust.
Partners for this program include:
Congregation Torat El – Oakhurst, NJ
Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism – Houston, TX
East Brunswick Jewish Center – East Brunswick, NJ
Jewish Federation of Venture County – Ventura, CA
Culture and Learning Center at B’nai Sholom – West Orange, NJ
Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Congregation – Skokie, IL
In order to continue to bring you wonderful programs, donations to our Programming Fund are always greatly appreciated!
When registering please be sure to type in your email address correctly as it will be needed to send out the email with Zoom links at the beginning of December.
Bookings are closed for this event.