Silent Film: “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (1927) 8mm w/Music | Berkeley

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Underground Film Night: Obscure Super 8 & 16mm Movies | Berkeley

The Berkeley Underground Film Society (BUFS) is an all ages club for collectors, researchers, and film enthusiasts in the East Bay and San Francisco area.

Their goal is to review and share a selective film history of movies on film.

Every Sunday, they screen buried, rarely projected, or otherwise obscure 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm prints from their collection.

Sunday, April 28, 2013
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) | Underground Film Night: Obscure Super 8 & 16mm Movies | Berkeley

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Sunrise won an Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 and sixty years later was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress for films that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Director: F.W. Murnau
Writers: Carl Mayer (scenario), Hermann Sudermann (from an original theme by)
Stars: George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor and Margaret Livingston

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