Liberty Hall Celebrates Centennial Anniversary
To celebrate 100 years of movies at Liberty Hall, programmers are invoking the building’s history as an opera house with a screening of Phantom of the Opera featuring live piano accompaniment.
Documentation suggests that the historied building first opened its doors as a movie theater in the 1924 to 1925 season. Earlier this year, Liberty Hall launched a new series to mark the centennial, screening a different 1925 silent movie each month.
- October’s selection: Phantom of the Opera (1925), directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin.
The black-and-white horror film will be made all the more eerie by Liberty Hall’s history as the Bowersock Opera House.
According to the Spencer Research Library, Bowersock renovated the building in 1882 before it burned down in an electrical fire in 1911.
Author's summary: Liberty Hall celebrates 100 years with a special screening.