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From "Sunrise" to "Die Hard": The History of 20th Century Fox

Presented by Schawn Belston, Executive Vice President, Library and Technical Services, 20th Century Fox

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Join Schawn Belston as he presents an illustrated history of 20th Century Fox, tracing the studio’s many milestones from the early days up through the present. One of Hollywood’s original “big six,” 20th Century Fox was formed in 1935 with the merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures. The studio went on to make stars of Shirley Temple and Marilyn Monroe, introduce CinemaScope in 1953, and produce The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Sound of Music (1965), Star Wars (1977), and Titanic (1997)—among hundreds of other classics. (program approx. 90 mins.)

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Schawn Belston is executive vice president, Library and Technical Services, at 20th Century Fox. He has supervised the restorations of F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927), Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950), Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), and Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music (1965), among many other films. This is his fourth appearance at Cinema Revival.

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From "Sunrise" to "Die Hard": The History of 20th Century Fox