"People on Sunday" and the films of Walther Barth - Canceled!

Join us at the Regal Riviera as the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS) will present People on Sunday, a 1930 silent film about a handful of city dwellers enjoying a weekend outing that offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin. A unique hybrid of documentary and fictional storytelling, the film would influence generations of film artists and represents an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would all go on to become major Hollywood players.

To accompany this feature, TAMIS will present select films from the Walther Barth Collection with commentary by UT Lindsay Young Professor of German, Daniel H. Magilow.

TAMIS recently completed comprehensive preservation of the Walther Barth Collection with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Friends of the Knox County Public Library. Barth was a skilled amateur filmmaker, and in this one-of-a-kind collection, he captured the hustle and bustle of cosmopolitan continental life, early evidence of Nazi influences on German society, pastoral outings, the verdant landscapes of upstate New York, the Great Smoky Mountains, and vignettes of family life.

Daniel H. Magilow is Lindsay Young Professor of German as well as an affiliated faculty member with the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Jewish Studies, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Department of History. Dr. Magilow’s teaching and research center on photography and film and their intersections with Holocaust Studies, Weimar Germany, and postwar memory.

These films are presented as a part of the Film Fest Knox Screening Series.