Because November 2004 marked the 85th anniversary of the historic Empire Theatre, now the Empire Arts Center where the festival is held, the weekend screenings began with the very first film to play at the theatre. Long-believed lost, a print of The Witness for the Defense was discovered in the Gosfilmofond Archives in Moscow, Russia. Elsie Ferguson and Warner Oland star in the 1919 Paramount-Artcraft melodrama. Oland, coincidentally, is a distant relative of Grand Forks resident Sheryl Smith, who served as executive director of the Empire Arts Center from 1997 until mid-2002.
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| - Because November 2004 marked the 85th anniversary of the historic Empire Theatre, now the Empire Arts Center where the festival is held, the weekend screenings began with the very first film to play at the theatre. Long-believed lost, a print of The Witness for the Defense was discovered in the Gosfilmofond Archives in Moscow, Russia. Elsie Ferguson and Warner Oland star in the 1919 Paramount-Artcraft melodrama. Oland, coincidentally, is a distant relative of Grand Forks resident Sheryl Smith, who served as executive director of the Empire Arts Center from 1997 until mid-2002.
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| - Because November 2004 marked the 85th anniversary of the historic Empire Theatre, now the Empire Arts Center where the festival is held, the weekend screenings began with the very first film to play at the theatre. Long-believed lost, a print of The Witness for the Defense was discovered in the Gosfilmofond Archives in Moscow, Russia. Elsie Ferguson and Warner Oland star in the 1919 Paramount-Artcraft melodrama. Oland, coincidentally, is a distant relative of Grand Forks resident Sheryl Smith, who served as executive director of the Empire Arts Center from 1997 until mid-2002.
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