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Starting in February, Tuesday and Saturday Afternoons at 2:00 pm
In the Library's Lecture Hall
The Bangor Public Library invites everyone
to join in our Bangor Reads fun with films from the 1930’s. This
year our Bangor Reads book, To Kill a Mockingbird by
Harper Lee, is set in the 1930s. Each Tuesday and Saturday
afternoon we will be showing a movie that hails from this
decade, reminding us that even while the country suffered
through a great depression, Hollywood was there to entertain.
In 1933, during the peak of the Great
Depression, twenty-five percent of Americans were unemployed.
While most struggled to meet their basic needs, standing in long
lines for soup and bread, some folks were willing to spend
fifteen cents to see a movie. Maybe they went to escape the
harsh realities of daily life, to laugh, and marvel, and even
cry at misfortune other than their own. Whatever the reason,
sixty to seventy million Americans packed the movie theaters
each week. Here is a chance to see the films that audiences in
the 1930s enjoyed in such numbers.
Tuesday, March 29th
at 2:00 pm
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)
Films will be shown in the Library’s Lecture
Hall and the lineup will change each week. Details and a
complete list of the films can be found at the Bangor Public
Library.
All movies are free and open to the public. Come relive some of
Hollywood’s wonderful past!
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