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Lost Boundaries, 70th Anniversary Screening. Free Event
FeaturedIntroduction to film: Dr. Larry Benequist, filmmaker A Short Documentary filmed by NHPBS of the Johnston Family will screen prior to the film. This film is based on a shocking true story that happened in Keene, NH. The story is about Dr. Albert Johnston and his family, a black family who passed for white in […]
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – Storm Center (1956)
The Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, November 7. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Storm Center (1956) A small-town librarian refuses to take a book on Communism out of circulation, with disastrous results. The first film to directly attack McCarthyism.
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – Desk Set (1957)
FeaturedThe Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, November 14. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Desk Set (1957) The library/research staff at a large television network have their jobs threatened when the network hires someone to install his invention, EMERAC ("Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator") to automate the research operation.
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – The Music Man (1962)
FeaturedThe Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, November 21. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Music Man (1962) Marian, the Librarian, is the only person in River City who sees through the fraudulent Harold Hill. She has access to printed proof of “Professor Hill’s” deception, but she loathes to reveal it as she is beginning to develop feelings for him.
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – Party Girl (1995)
FeaturedThe Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, December 5. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Party Girl (1995) Airhead Mary gets a job in her local branch of the city library. Slowly, the routines at the library turn her into a near-obsessive, in love with the life-saving organizational principles of the Dewey Decimal System.
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – The Public (2018)
FeaturedThe Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, December 12. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Public (2018) About to be ejected into the cold, a group of homeless men refuse to leave the Cincinnati Public Library and barricade themselves inside. While fictional, The Public is a sensitive and interesting examination of the functions of public spaces.
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Kingsbury Toys, the documentary
FeaturedHistorical Society of CheshireWed., March 18, 2020 we will release link and code to view film online. Click below to get your ticket to receive online viewing information. Must register by 12:00 pm 3/18/20. Kingsbury Toys, the documentary. See the 30-minute documentary film by Peter Frechette on the history of Kingsbury Toys, manufactured in Keene, NH between the […]