Méliès and Company: Sleight-of-Hand from Stage to Screen at JBFC July 15 at 12pm

Méliès and Company: Sleight-of-Hand from Stage to Screen    

Family Screening and Sleight-of-Hand Performance with renowned Magcian Benjamin Levy on Sunday, July 15 at 

12:00 pm 

at the Jacob Burns Film Center located at 

Magician Benjamin Levy has awed audiences around the world with his dazzling shows and we could have no better guide for this exciting exploration of magic and the movies. Levy will explain how stage magicians of the late Victorian era paved the way for the beginnings of movie magic with their special effects. He'll show us A Trip to the Moon by the extraordinary innovator Georges Méliès, along with other early short films. Levy promises to demonstrate some jaw-dropping magic of his own, too!  

Tickets: $6 (JBFC and Hudson River Museum members), $6.50 (children under 12), $8 (students), $11 (nonmembers)

Presented in conjunction with the Hudson River Museum, whose exhibition Gilded Age Magic will be on view through Sept. 9.

The Hudson River Museum and the Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, co-sponsor this program.