The Art Directors Guild Film Society and American Cinematheque will honor Production Designer Rudolph Sternad with a screening of the film
“The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T”
(1953)
This film will be shown on
Sunday, July 18, at 5:30 pm
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica
the third of this year’s screening series highlighting the work of renowned Production Designers and their creative colleagues. The screening series is sponsored by Variety. A panel discussion will take place after the film with Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Art at USC, whose most recent book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, is recognized as a hallmark of recent research on the subject of transmedia storytelling. The panel will be moderated by Production Designer
John Muto.
The unique musical fantasy, “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T” is the only feature film ever written by Theodor Seuss Geisel (“Dr. Seuss”), who was responsible for the story, screenplay and lyrics. Production Designer Rudolph Sternad took on the formidable task of creating the architectural equivalent of the amazing Dr. Seuss world. Directed by Roy Rowland and starring Tommy Rettig, Mary Healy and Hans Conried, this remarkable film tells the story of a young boy, Bart, who dreams his despised piano teacher has enslaved him, his mother, and his friends and doomed them to endlessly play a giant piano.
Sternad, a consummate Hollywood professional, also designed such disparate films as, "The Wild One" (1953); “On the Beach” (1959); “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961); and “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1963).
THESE SCREENINGS ARE FREE TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE ADG AND A GUEST
Make Your Reservations by email to
marjo@artdirectors.org.
All Screenings Begin At 5:30 P.M.
FOR NON MEMBERS
. General admission: $11. American Cinematheque Members: $7. Students/Seniors with valid ID: $9.
Tickets are available for purchase at Fandango www.Fandango.com.or by visiting the Aero Box Office
