The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and The American Cinematheque kick off the Guild’s 75th anniversary year and 2012 Film Series with Douglas Fairbanks' classic The Iron Mask (1928) at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on May 20 at 5:30 p.m. The screening will be a tribute to Fairbanks, a great early patron of film design, as well as the film’s designer, Maurice Leloir, and the excellence of Hollywood film design from its earliest days.
A panel discussion will follow the film, with guests including John Tibbetts, authority on Fairbanks and Professor of Film at the University of Kansas; Laurence Bennett, Oscar-nominated Production Designer of The Artist; and Patrick Stanbury producer, historian, film restorationist and Mr. Brownlow’s partner.
The 2012 ADG/American Cinematheque Screening Series schedule also includes Ziegfeld Follies (1945) honoring Supervising Art Director Cedric Gibbons, Sunday, June 17, at the Aero Theatre; Captain Blood (1935) or The Sea Hawk (1940) Sunday, July 22 at the Egyptian Theatre; and Just Imagine (1930) honoring Stephen Goosson, Sunday, August 19, at the Aero Theatre.