Film Series 2019:

Sound Comes to Keene

at the Keene Public Library

 At the events, film historian Larry Benaquist will provide insight into the introduction of ‘talkies’ in Keene’s theatres and more about the history of the films.

The Trespasser

Wednesday, April 17

7:00 pm at The Keene Public Library

Released on November 1929, The Trespasser screened at the Scenic Theatre in Keene on December 17th and 18th, 1929. Ninety minutes in length, this was Gloria Swanson’s first talking film and it was a tremendous success. The Trespasser is a melodrama in which Gloria is a secretary who marries a wealthy but weak-willed young man whose father forces his son to annul the marriage; however, she has a son, and gossip starts that she is a “kept woman.”