INDIANAPOLIS — Film historian Eric Grayson will screen The Toll of the Sea (1922), the earliest surviving Technicolor film, on Saturday, March 7 at 7 p.m. at the Garfield Park Arts Center, 2432 Conservatory Dr. Featuring actress Anna May Wong, this version of the classic Madame Butterfly tale has a young Asian woman fall in love with a soldier who promises to marry her, and then deserts her as she’s expecting a child.
Toll is the first of three silent films (each with a live score by pianist Roger Lippincott) in the monthly Vintage Movie Night series, to be followed by The Black Pirate (1926) on April 18 and He Who Gets Slapped (1924) on May 16. Both April and May films begin at 8 p.m.
Admission is $5. Concessions are $1. For further information, visit www.gpacarts.org or call 317-327-7135.
